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End of an era in Labrador West?
It opened in 1975. The Kaboulo Bar was the first disco for Labrador West. Kaboulo Bar/Disco in the 1970’s. The disco scene was breaking out all over and the first owners thought it was time to get with the times. It opened, mirrored ...
OUTSIDE IN: Halifax tech business, harbr, born from home reno
OUTSIDE IN: This is the third in a five-part series. A house renovation may seem like an unlikely laboratory for an artificial intelligence software, but this is exactly how the tech company harbr was born. Ashley Kielbratowski was ...
Atlantic Canada’s innovation tide is changing
When you ask the definition of innovation, the eyeballs start rolling. ...
OUTSIDE IN: Halifax's Coloursmith developing contact lenses to correct colour blindness
OUTSIDE IN: This is the third in a five-part series. When Gabrielle Elliot-Bouchard was a child in Detroit, a condition caused blindness in one eye and left her with poor vision in the other. “I saw from a really young age ...
OUTSIDE IN: Nova Scotia firm develops software to help marinas, working with U.S. port
Iaian Archibald grew up sailing in Nova Scotia with his father. ...
West coast company and Grenfell serve up grilled eel during taste testing event
An oily fish, much like mackerel is how Dan Quilty described the grilled eel he sampled in the Functional Foods Laboratory at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland in Corner Brook on Wednesday. Quilty stopped into the lab to take ...
St. John’s-based company hoping to grow cannabis, manufacture value-added products in former fish plant in Jackson’s Arm
The economy of rural Newfoundland and Labrador is in desperate need of development and Chris Snellen is hoping to literally help things grow now that he owns the fish plant in Jackson’s Arm. Snellen has more than three decades of experience ...
Twillingate and New World Island say goodbye to plastic bags
TWILLINGATE AND NEW WORLD ISLAND, N.L., - In the name of conservation and lessening damage to the ocean, grocery stores across Twillingate and New World Island are abandoning the use of plastic bags. Judy Hillier with the Department of ...
MARK VAUGHAN-JACKSON: Newfoundland and Labrador bucking the trend on business investment confidence
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) just finished surveying thousands of small- and medium-sized businesses on their investment plans for the coming year. And things don’t look that great for Atlantic Canada as ...
OUTSIDE IN: ‘There is opportunity on the horizon,’ says N.L.-based energy entrepreneur
Outside In is a five-part series that delves into the global issues affecting business in 2019. Ashley Smith is the founder and managing director of Fundamental Inc. — Consulting and Design in Harbour Main, N.L. Submitted video. In this ...
