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Rally Bags $500K ACOA Loan

  • Nov 16, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Atlantic Tech Summit Set for Nov. 17

  • Nov 15, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Appili Has Disappointing Trial Results

  • Nov 14, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Jobs: Dash Hudson Seeks Exec

  • Nov 14, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Our Job of the Week column today features a posting by Halifax-based social media monitoring company Dash Hudson, which is seeking a Senior Product Marketing Manager in Halifax.

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that

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Welkom-U Completes Pilot

  • Nov 11, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

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

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The White Cross, by H.P. MacKeen

  • Nov 10, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Maritime Launch Going Public

  • Nov 09, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

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

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CASTL Readies Training Partnership

  • Nov 09, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

The Prince Edward Island-based Canadian Alliance for Skills and Training in Life Sciences, or CASTL, has announced a partnership with Vancouver’s adMare BioInnovations to offer technical training to prospective life sciences workers.

CASTL is a

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NS Moves Meta Windfall to Own Coffers

  • Nov 08, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

The Nova Scotia government has decided to move almost all the money Innovacorp received from its investment in Dartmouth-based Meta Materials Inc. to the general government coffers.

Entrevestor reported in September that Innovacorp had sold all its

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The Psychedelic Opportunity

  • Nov 08, 2021
  • Michael Kydd

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

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MycoFutures’ Mushroom Leather

  • Nov 07, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Farrar Named HP Director of Innovation

  • Nov 07, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

Development group Halifax Partnership has named Patrick Farrar its new Director of Innovation responsible for promoting innovative companies in the city.

“We are thrilled to have Patrick join our team to continue supporting the rapid growth of

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