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 economics just didn’t work out. You can find the details in her own well-chosen words at alwaysalwayssomething.blogspot.ca.

“Twenty-five years in this city have made me an exceptional planner, mastering a transit system that is neither consistent nor logical, preparing for work that won’t last, finding new best friends every year because no one

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  Jackie Kinley, the institute’s president and CEO.

Resilience is the capacity to not only endure but to grow through challenge and adversity.

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 problems with their designs early in the development process. It grew out of research that Kyriakidis and his team performed at Dalhousie University

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 engage grant from Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, or NSERC, will test how different variables impact learning. These variables

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 dedicated to making rugged, low-power devices that can detect carbon dioxide and other gases escaping from the ground. These products help scientists

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. John’s. This is part of our Jobs of the Week feature, which appears on Entrevestor each Monday morning.

Until Jan. 31, you can post job openings on

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 aboriginal people have a strong history of entrepreneurship, which is not always recognized by the wider population.

Gov. Gen. David Johnston recently

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 develop businesses over eight months and receive instruction from leading academics and business people. This year, The Next 36 accepted 38 participants,

If there was one task Atlantic Canadian businesses should focus on in 2016, what should it be?

Opinions would vary, but my answer would be stronger links between established businesses and government on the one hand and the startup community on the other.

This should be a priority because it would, in theory at least, help solve two problems: the uneven quality of startups in the region and

TruLeaf, the Truro-based indoor agriculture company, announced Wednesday that it has received new investment from two prominent businessmen and strengthened its executive team.

The company, which recently raised more than $1.7 million by crowdfunding in the U.S., issued a press release saying it received an undisclosed amount of funding from Martin Jamieson and Pete Luckett. Both will become