Wabanaki Maple Set To Double Sales For Third Year In A Row
Wabanaki recently clinched the Opportunities NB Resilience Award, in the 2022 Export Awards – a testament to its decisive move in 2020, shortly after its founding.
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Granite Centre On Track To Become ‘The Dartmouth Crossing Of New Brunswick’
With a slew of businesses signing leases and construction chugging along, the Granite Centre is expected to hit capacity by the end of 2024.
Air Canada Cuts Will Impact Saint John Airport
Saint John Airport CEO Sandy Ross said the airport will lose two of its four daily round trips through Air Canada.
New Irving Shipbuilding President Abruptly Resigned From His Last Job
Dirk Lesko starts his new job just a few months after he left as president of Maine’s General Dynamics Bath Iron Works shipyard (BIW) in April.
L’Artisan Finds Niche Selling Yarn To Rural N.B.
An Ontario transplant’s dream to bring good yarn to rural northwestern New Brunswick, so crafters don’t have to cross the province, is being realized as a brick-and-mortar shop in St. Leonard.
McCain Foods Acquires Fredericton-Based Resson Aerospace Technology
McCain Foods acquired Resson Aerospace’s predictive crop intelligence portfolio on June 29. This technology analyzes satellite imagery of crop fields and reports the data to allow a better understanding of the field’s needs to both McCain and their potato growers.
CN Rail, Striking Workers Agree To Binding Arbitration
CN and the union representing roughly 750 signals and communications workers announced late Monday that they have agreed to binding arbitration.
Keith Cronkhite Being Replaced As CEO Of NB Power
Board chair Charles V. Firlotte says the provincial utility plans to strike out in a new direction under new leadership.
The Maritimes’ Private Sector Is Underperforming
Nova Scotia was last among all provinces in private sector investment in 2019, spending $11,300 per worker. Prince Edward Island was ninth ($11,400) and New Brunswick was eighth ($13,800). The national average was $21,300.
We Should Fundamentally Transform The EI Program
Opinion: Employment Insurance should agressively focus on finding people jobs and getting them back to work. Not, as we have today, an income supplement for many seasonal workers who don’t want to work in the off-season.
