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An NS Teen Tackles E. coli

  • Dec 24, 2015
  • Sabina Wex

Three media interviews, basketball practice, schoolwork—this is a typical week in Rachel Brouwer’s life.

The 14-year-old also needs to fit in time for her own project: a water pasteurization system she created which kills 100 percent of E. coli in

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Farewell to Allison Sparling

  • Dec 22, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Allison Sparling is leaving Halifax and has bid a thoughtful adieu to the city on her website.

Sparling is a 25-year-old blogger, community organizer and communications specialist who has tried to make a go of it in her native Halifax, but the

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A Business Founded on Resilience

  • Dec 18, 2015
  • Carol Moreira

Workplace stress is a common cause of mental illness and distress. A Halifax venture is working to protect the health of workers by increasing their emotional toughness.

The Atlantic Institute for Resilience was founded last year by psychiatrist

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QRA Working With Lockheed Martin

  • Dec 16, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

QRA Corp announced Tuesday it has begun to provide Lockheed Martin engineers with an advanced early-stage systems verification solution for the development of increasingly complex cyber-physical designs.

QRA helps machine manufacturers to detect

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SageCrowd, Dal to Study E-Learning

  • Dec 16, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

SageCrowd, the Halifax startup that enhances corporate training, has partnered with the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Dalhousie University to research the effects of training methods on online learning.

​This study, funded by an

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Ending the Atrocity of Sweat Stains

  • Dec 15, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Chanakya Ramdev got the idea for SweatFree Apparel when he had to trudge to work each day in the sweltering heat of Hong Kong.

During his coop work term with the University of Waterloo’s alumni office in Hong Kong last year, he would arrive at

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Eosense Launches 3 New Products

  • Dec 15, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Eosense, the Dartmouth company that makes instruments to detect gases escaping from the ground, is appearing at the American Geophysical Union this week with three new products on display.

The company, formerly called Forerunner Research, is

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MedStack To Aid Healthcare Apps

  • Dec 14, 2015
  • Rose Behar

Healthcare apps are on the rise, both in popularity and proliferation, but they often have to adhere to medical regulations. That’s why Waterloo-based MedStack is developing a platform that helps healthcare app developers build products that

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Jobs of the Week: St. John’s

  • Dec 14, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Entrevestor and Qimple last month launched the Entrevestor Job Board, which helps to match job openings and candidates in the Atlantic Canadian tech and startup communities.

Today we’re featuring posts on the board from companies based in St.

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First Nation Entrepreneurs Recognized

  • Dec 10, 2015
  • Carol Moreira

When former prime minister Paul Martin spoke at the Startup Canada awards in Toronto last week, he called for a national prize to recognize entrepreneurship among First Nations people.

Martin told the audience of business innovators that

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Javorek Heads to The Next 36

  • Dec 10, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Justin Javorek, a fixture in the Dalhousie University entrepreneurship community for the past few years, has been named to the 2016 cohort of The Next 36.

The program aims to select the best university entrepreneurs from across Canada, who

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Bridgit Wins GFE Competition

  • Dec 10, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Bridgit, the Kitchener startup that improves communication on construction sites, has won the Google for Entrepreneurs Demo Day for female-led startups.

The company was the only Canadian entry in the competition, in which 11 finalists from

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