Rally Bags $500K ACOA Loan

Rally, the St. John’s maker of software for law firms, has bagged a $500,000 loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency as it looks to hire seven new staff and ultimately reach 24 employees by 2023.

Rally sells software to help lawyers share documents among themselves and with their clients, as well as communicate with clients about their cases.

CEO Scott Stevenson said in an interview

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Atlantic Tech Summit Set for Nov. 17

The third annual Atlantic Tech Summit will be held on Wednesday, with the theme of “Building a Stronger Atlantic Tech Ecosystem”.

The day-long virtual event features a range of keynotes and panel discussions that showcase the progress the region has made in developing the IT ecosystem, and the challenges it still faces. The speakers include industry leaders from across Canada, including several

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Appili Has Disappointing Trial Results

Shares of Appili Therapeutics shed more than half their value on Friday after the Halifax drug discovery company released disappointing trial results for a drug candidate intended to treat COVID-19.

The company released a statement before the market opened on Friday saying the Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating Favipiravir as a treatment for mild-to-moderate COVID-19 “did not achieve statistical

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Welkom-U Completes Pilot

When Welkom-U co-founder and COO Michael Olamide Ojolo landed in Fredericton as an international student, he travelled straight from the airport to his first class at the University of New Brunswick, arriving with his luggage in tow.

The reason for his suitcase-laden entrance was partly his lack of familiarity with Canada. He had not yet arranged accommodations and needed to find a place to

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The White Cross, by H.P. MacKeen

My grandfather, artillery officer H.P. MacKeen, shown on the left, wrote this poem in Ypres in September 1917, two months before the Battle of Passchendaele.

 

The White Cross

It isn’t a medal or order,

It carries no ribbon or braid

But a token still

As on Calvary Hill

Of the greater sacrifice made.

 

It stands as a lonely sentinel

O’er the place where the hero sleeps

‘Neath a lowly

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Maritime Launch Going Public

Commercial spaceflight startup Maritime Launch Services is going public on the TSX Venture Exchange via a reverse takeover of merchant bank Jaguar Financial Corp.

Maritime Launch Services, or MLS, Chief Executive Steve Matier declined to name the size of the deal, but said its purpose is to draw the attention of potential investors. It follows a $10.5 million funding round led by Toronto’s

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The Psychedelic Opportunity

Out of the haze and into the light, Canadians are finally waking from their 50-year psychedelic slumber. 

Once thought to be a lost generation of marmalade skies, the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s has evolved into a modern medical renaissance. It is one that is transforming psychiatry in the way we treat mental illness and relieve palliative and end-of-life suffering. It also

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MycoFutures’ Mushroom Leather

Stephanie Lipp and Leonedest Gillis entered the Genesis Evolution accelerator in St. John's with plans to sell a mushroom-based nutraceutical product.

When they emerged from the program eight weeks later, they had pivoted to an entirely new business, and on Friday, their revised plan helped them win $55,000 of cash and in-kind services from the BioInnovation Challenge accelerator and startup

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