The Halifax maker of anti-microbial film for fish packaging that was formerly called Impactful Health R&D has rebranded to Freshr Sustainable Technologies.

Freshr, which was founded by biomaterials researcher Mina Mekhail in 2017 and makes its packaging from sustainable materials, said in a statement that the new name is meant to highlight how the company’s product offers food packagers benefits

A group of innovation ecosystem support groups on Prince Edward Island are collaborating to host a one-day entrepreneurship conference in Charlottetown Nov. 2.

The Summit for Island Entrepreneurs and Innovators is being organized by Startup Zone, foodtech industry group the Food Island Partnership, bioscience incubator Emergence, virtual incubator Propel, Innovation P.E.I. and the law firm

On the eve of Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the Saint John-headquartered North Shore Mi’kmaq District Council has inked $3 million worth of investment deals with two makers of next-generation nuclear reactors.

The two nuclear companies, Moltex Energy and ARC Clean Technology, both plan to build "small modular reactors" in New Brunswick. The new systems will be less than a

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a raft of new artificial intelligence-related research and development deals with the private sector, including a $10.5 million, six-company group working on environmental assessments for tidal energy projects.

The Supercluster has made funding AI a priority in recent months, with the federally backed oceantech hub having last spring announced a

The Prince Edward Island BioAlliance has become the first North American group to receive the Gold Label of Cluster Management Excellence by the European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis.

The Charlottetown-based group, which brings together government, business and academia to support the life sciences ecosystem, said in a press release Wednesday it is one of 144 economic clusters to receive the

Energia Ventures, the Fredericton-based accelerator affiliated with University of New Brunswick, launched its 10th cohort this week, with five participants from as far away as  Israel.

Energia is hosted by the university’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship, or TME, and supports startups from around the world involved in energy, smart grids, cleantech and

Chester, N.S.-based circular economy company Sustane has won Canadian Food Inspection Agency approval for its organic GroBoost Fertilizer product as it eyes commercialization.

Sustane has developed technology for repurposing curbside garbage into high-value fuels and biomass pellets, converting up to 90 percent of  municipal solid waste into valuable commercial products.

The company itself grew

Invest Nova Scotia is looking for applicants to its Early Stage Commercialization Fund for university research, which offers startups up to $50,000 of funding.

The money can go towards assessing a product’s market potential, developing go-to-market strategies and other planning, finishing a proof-of-concept, prototyping and leveraging other funds.

And for the second time this year, Invest Nova

The Ghost Gear Fund, a federally funded program, has contributed $551,270 to Ocean Legacy Foundation to assist Nova Scotia in the clean up after Hurricane Fiona which struck the region a year ago.

B.C.-based Ocean Legacy Foundation is a Canadian non-profit that develops and implements worldwide plastic pollution response programs with the goal of ending plastic pollution.

The new funds will

The U.S. manufacturing partner of Halifax drug discovery company Appili Therapeutics has won Food and Drug Administration approval to sell Appili’s liquid formulation of the common antibiotic metronidazole under the name LIKMEZ.

The news comes just four months after Appili announced it had secured a U.S. patent for the new formulation, which will be manufactured and sold south of the border by