In his splendid book Nova Scotia’s Lost Century: Can We Change Course?, Ian Thompson zeroes in on an all-important but immeasurable factor in the province’s underperformance since Confederation: our loss of confidence.

Our historical underconfidence is a treacherous subject for a pundit, as it tends to raise hackles. Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper was vilified in 2002 when he spoke of the

It was feast or famine in the Atlantic Canadian venture capital arena in the first half of 2026, with New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador accounting for 96 percent of the funds raised.

The Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, released its quarterly VC data on Tuesday, showing that New Brunswick booked $31.6 million in the six months to June 30. Newfoundland reported

Fredericton-based Green Imaging Technologies has appointed Norm Couturier as chief executive officer while Co-Founder Derrick Green has moved into the newly created role of chief technology officer.

The changes took effect July 15 and are intended to give separate executive oversight to the company's commercial operations and technology development.

Couturier had served as chief operating

The federal government has announced $50 million in funding for Natural Products Canada (NPC) to help expand Canada's agri-food innovation sector through a project valued at $94.8 million.

The funding, provided through the Strategic Response Fund, will support NPC's efforts to commercialize Canadian agrifood and bio-based technologies and increase their adoption in domestic and international

Tribe Network says more than 70 Black, Indigenous, and racialized entrepreneurs across Atlantic Canada received support through its 2025–26 Start Small Grant Program.

The Halifax-based organization released the program's results on Tuesday, it provided a total of $50,000 in grants through the program, and the recipients generated more than $270,000 in revenue.

Funded by Emera Inc., the program

Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency has approved a $745,000 loan to Dartmouth-based Site 20/20 to help the traffic-control technology company expand its operations and increase production capacity.

The funding, announced Monday, will support the company as it accelerates product development, reduces costs, improves service delivery and expands into new markets.

Site 20/20 plans to retrofit a

Nova Scotia medtech startup Elle, MD Technologies has raised C$1.1 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed financing round to support the first human clinical trial of its non-hormonal contraceptive device.

The New Minas-based company said the funding will allow it to begin its First-in-Human clinical trial of Livv at The Ottawa Hospital.

Livv is a non-hormonal vaginal contraceptive ring designed

The University of New Brunswick has launched the UNB Network for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, a new initiative that brings together the university's entrepreneurship programs and organizations within a single network.

In a message to partners, Acting President and Vice-Chancellor Kathy Wilson said the Network will serve as a central hub for UNB's entrepreneurial assets, with the goal of

Propel, Atlantic Canada's technology accelerator, has appointed Kumaran Thillainadarajah and Dr. Jason Cleaversmith to its board of directors, adding two technology-sector leaders with experience in scaling companies and supporting entrepreneurs.

Thillainadarajah is co-founder and chief technology officer of Smart Skin Technologies, a Fredericton company that previously participated in Propel's

St. John's-based SiftMed has raised a new round of financing led by Staircase Ventures of Toronto, bringing the company's total funding to more than $10 million as it expands its artificial intelligence platform for medical claims.

Existing investors Pelorus VC and a group of Verafin founders also participated in the round, the company said. SiftMed did not disclose the amount of the latest