Saint John And Fredericton Return To ‘Orange’ Level
The Moncton area (Zone 1) remains in the red level, and the Edmundston region (Zone 4) remains under lockdown.
The Moncton area (Zone 1) remains in the red level, and the Edmundston region (Zone 4) remains under lockdown.
Major Drilling saw its year-on-year revenue drop by about 6 percent due to the pandemic, but there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Its quarterly revenue went up 28 percent, thanks to stronger metal prices, eased health restrictions, and growth in copper demand due to an increase of electric vehicles on the roads.
The Saint John company that offers services and a software platform to help companies support diversity and inclusion initiatives has hired Adrienne O’Pray, the former CEO of the New Brunswick Business Council.
VidCruiter has been busy this past year helping organizations staff up, including the hiring of contact tracers in Baltimore and 1,400 traveling nurses in just 10 days to help New York City fight Covid-19.
Alex LeBlanc succeeds Adrienne O’Pray, who served in the role for over six years.
A quarterly survey commissioned by the Business Development Bank of Canada found that investment intentions improved the most in Atlantic Canada and Quebec for the first quarter of 2021.
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs said inspectors visited 172 businesses this week and found 23 didn’t have any Covid-19 operational plan, while some employees don’t wear masks.
In the quarterly earnings call, Organigram said it’s hiring up to 130 cultivation, packaging and other staff as it seeks to ramp up production of popular products.
A survey of 14 large employers found that most employees will keep splitting time between the office and home, which has implications for businesses that depend on the downtown workforce.
It is one of the businesses occupying the commercial space on the first floor of the Tannery Place at the Junction Urban Village on the western end of downtown Moncton.