New Brunswick’s Airport Problem

Business people and entrepreneurs are told to go to where their potential investors and customers are. Often, they are in cities like Boston and New York.

Though hopping on a plane and flying right to these places seems easy enough, it’s not so simple when you live in New Brunswick.

Right now, none of the province’s three major airports offer any direct flights to the United States. If you want

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Innovation Week Launched in NL

Newfoundland and Labrador launched its fourth annual Innovation Week on Monday with the theme of “innovative thinking”.

The week brings businesses, investors, inventors, youth and other stakeholders together to find ways to grow the province’s key sectors. It is a mix of conferences, start-up workshops, clean and ocean technology events, TEDxYouth, a “Girls Learning Code” workshop, and an R&D

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Job of the Week: Clockwork Fox

Our Job of the Week column this week highlights an opening for a front-end web developer with the Newfoundland and Labrador education technology company Clockwork Fox Studios.

St. John’s-based Clockwork Fox focuses on game-based learning. It makes video games that inspire and engage young kids to learn math. It analyzes data from these games to provide teachers and parents with information on

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Ng Moves Ahead with Triple Effect

Older people who struggle with technology are often figures of fun, at least in our house. But the frustration and sense of isolation felt by technologically-challenged seniors is genuine. It’s a problem Sally Ng plans to address with her technology programs for older people.

Ng is best known regionally as the founding executive director of Planet Hatch, Fredericton’s incubator for startups. She

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BDC Unveils $280M Lending Program

The Business Development Bank of Canada today announced a $280 million financing package to support small and mid-sized businesses in the Atlantic Provinces over the next two years.

Targeted industries for the lending program include ICT, agri-food, ocean technology and tourism.

The federal government’s development bank said the amount represents a $100 million increase in the bank’s normal

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Empowered Homes Lands $600K

Empowered Homes, the St. John’s startup developing smart thermostats for high-voltage heating systems, has received $600,000 in equity financing from Venture NL and Killick Capital.

The company has been taking pre-orders for its first Mysa smart thermostats, which are due to be shipped to clients in late October. Mysa uses artificial intelligence and mobile communications to ensure optimum heat

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