Insights with Don Mills and David Campbell- An Acadia Broadcasting Podcast
200 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago -This podcast combines the experiences of an economist, David Campbell and a social scientist, Don Mills, to explore the challenges and opportunities facing Atlantic Canada, to promote data-driven decision making among policymakers and to encourage a wider dialogue and debate leading to greater prosperity for the region. Expect to hear interviews with the top influencers, business leaders and decision-makers across Atlantic Canada to inform, educate and expand the conversations on the key issues facing the region.
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Best Of 'Insights': The Big Opportunity For Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
December 28, 2022 22:14 - 56 minutes - 49.7 MBDon Mills and David Campbell have had a series of conversations this year about the transformation of the energy sector in Atlantic Canada as it looks to decarbonize our economy and continue to foster a strong regional economy. Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) could be an important source of electricity production that provides essentially carbon-free energy that, unlikely many other sources of green energy, provides baseload stable power production whether or not wind is blowing or t...
Best Of 'Insights': Has Tidal Power Finally Arrived On Our Shores?
December 21, 2022 21:08 - 1 hour - 54.5 MBSustainable Marine has connected its turbines to the Nova Scotia power grid in a real-life demonstration project to prove its surface-based technology can harness the power of the Bay of Fundy. Our conversation with their CEO Jason Hayman is a must-listen for anyone looking to understand the challenges and opportunities associated with tidal power. After numerous failed attempts by others to generate power from the world's highest and most powerful tides, Sustainable Marine has ta...
Podcast: Denis Caron On The Port of Belledune's Green Pivot
December 14, 2022 19:12 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBWhen it was built in the 1960s, the Port of Belledune was a vital asset to support the development of the northeastern New Brunswick economy. The expansion of the mining sector led to the establishment of a lead smelter and other industrial projects. In the 1980s, a coal-fired electricity generation plant was built to further expand development opportunities. In 2022 the port is at a crossroads. The smelter has closed and NB Power’s facilities, the port’s top customer, will not be ...
How Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Can Help Us Hit Net-Zero Emissions
December 07, 2022 18:12 - 1 hour - 50.9 MBOn this week’s Insights podcast, we speak with Bill Labbe, President & CEO of ARC Canada, about his company’s development of an advanced small modular reactor (aSMR) in New Brunswick and about the role of nuclear energy in meeting Canada’s commitment to net zero 2050. This revealing conversation provides insight into a wide variety of issues including timing (i.e. when will construction on the first SMR begin); price competitiveness (i.e. how will the price per kWh compare to other...
How EfficiencyOne Has Helped N.S. Reduced Energy Costs By More Than $1-Billion
December 01, 2022 01:34 - 1 hour - 56 MBOn this week’s "Insights" podcast, Don Mills and David Campbell are continuing their discussions about the energy sector and the transition to net zero by 2050. In previous podcasts, we have covered renewable energy, natural gas and other topics. This week, they're talking to Stephen MacDonald, President & CEO of EfficiencyOne about the role of energy efficiency. For more than a decade, EfficiencyOne has been helping residents and industries to become more energy efficient leading ...
Black Business Initiative A Model Of Success
November 23, 2022 19:38 - 1 hour - 53.1 MBIn this episode of the "Insights" podcast, we talk with Rustum Southwell, the founding CEO of the Black Business Initiative (BBI) which has developed a national reputation for its work with the black business community and has expanded its mandate to serve all of Atlantic Canada. Rustum was recently inducted into the N.S. Business Hall of Fame and named one of Canada's most influential black leaders. Through BBI's counsel, training programs and financial support, several hundred bl...
Paul Mazerolle On The Entrepreneurial Spirit At UNB
November 16, 2022 19:11 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBOn this week’s Insights podcast, we are continuing our series of interviews with the leaders of Atlantic Canada’s post-secondary education sector. Dr. Paul Mazerolle, the President and Vice-Chancellor at the University of New Brunswick, joins us to talk about why the “world needs more UNB.” Mazerolle outlines an ambitious plan to boost the student population by 50 percent and double sponsored research income to $100 million per year. The university has big plans to expand experien...
Don Mills On Building Communities Through Business And Volunteerism
November 10, 2022 00:29 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBIn this week’s episode, we turn the microphone around. Don Mills was recently inducted into the Nova Scotia Business Hall of Fame - an honour he received because of his successful business career where he built a firm with upwards of 600 employees and his extensive volunteerism including stints on the boards of the IWK, Halifax Partnership, Halifax Chamber of Commerce, APEC, among many others. Don provides insights on how he dealt with adversity, the importance of volunteerism an...
It Takes A Community To Build A Nova Scotia Chocolate Factory
November 02, 2022 23:39 - 52 minutes - 52.9 MBThe Hadhad family left Damascus after their home and business were destroyed with nothing. In this fascinating two-part podcast, we follow the family's journey as refugees from Syria to Lebanon and then to Antigonish, Nova Scotia. The conversation with Tareq Hadhad, the young and dynamic CEO of Peace by Chocolate is nothing less than inspiring, providing a better understanding of the value that immigrants bring to Canada. With strong support from their community and Sobeys, the Had...
Tareq Hadhad On His Family's Remarkable Journey From Syria To Nova Scotia
October 28, 2022 00:53 - 42 minutes - 43.3 MBThe Hadhad family left Damascus after their home and business were destroyed with nothing. In this fascinating two-part podcast, we follow the family's journey as refugees from Syria to Lebanon and then to Antigonish, Nova Scotia. The conversation with Tareq Hadhad, the young and dynamic CEO of Peace by Chocolate is nothing less than inspiring, providing a better understanding of the value that immigrants bring to Canada. With strong support from their community and Sobeys, the Had...
Tyler Mattheis On The Economic Resurgence Of Cape Breton
October 20, 2022 20:19 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBDon Mills and David Campbell are in Cape Breton for a special edition of the "Insights" podcast this week. The Cape Breton Partnership is having its annual Investor Summit and the guys took the opportunity to chat with CEO Tyler Mattheis about the potential of an economic resurgence in this important region of Atlantic Canada. Since its heyday as an industrial powerhouse in the 1960s and 1970s, the region has struggled to reposition itself and that has led to slow but steady depopu...
New Vision And $125-Million Will Transform Digby Pines Resort In N.S.
October 14, 2022 03:26 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBUnder the leadership of hospitality veteran Glenn Squires, the CEO of Pacrim Hospitality Services, Digby Pines Golf Resort and Spa is being transformed to become one of the top 10 resorts in Canada. In partnership with the Bear River First Nation, the ownership group has already invested $10 million on basic infrastructure. It's now open year-round as a result of these initial investments, with ambitious plans to spend another $125 million over the next five years or so. In a wide...
Unprecedented Population Growth Leads To Unexpected Challenges
October 07, 2022 02:41 - 42 minutes - 41.9 MBWith the exception of Newfoundland & Labrador, the rest of Atlantic Canada is enjoying unprecedented population growth at rates well above the national average. In this episode, we take a look at the sustainability of the current pace of growth. This special interest podcast begins with a look at the latest population data and the impacts that rapid population growth is having on the labour market, the housing market, education and health care. We are clearly in transition to a fas...
How To Rebuild An Atlantic Canadian Tourism Economy Worth Billions
September 29, 2022 01:27 - 52 minutes - 42.5 MBOn the latest episode of the "Insights" podcast, we get an update on the state of the tourism industry in Nova Scotia and across Atlantic Canada with Darlene Grant Fiander, President, Tourism Industry Association of Nova Scotia and Executive Director, Nova Scotia Tourism Human Resource Council. The discussion ranges from the current state of the industry (not expected to fully return to the pre-pandemic level until 2025), some of the positive trends emerging from the pandemic and ...
How Emera Is Building A North American Energy Powerhouse From Halifax
September 22, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBWith annual revenues of more than $5 billion and $36 billion in assets, the importance of Emera on the regional economy is not well understood. In a wide-ranging conversation on the "Insights" podcast with Emera's President & CEO, Scott Balfour, Don Mills and David Campbell learned that only 30 percent of the company's revenue is generated in Nova Scotia, with the bulk of the rest coming from the U.S. This revenue supports a couple of hundred high-paying head office jobs in Halifax...
Herb Emery On Why Exports Are The Key To Growth In Atlantic Canada
September 15, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBOn this week's edition of the "Insights" podcast, Don Mills and David Campbell are joined by Herb Emery, Vaughan Chair in Regional Economics at the University of New Brunswick and Director of the Atlantic Institute for Policy Research. Emery helps us understand the current state of the economy in Atlantic Canada and what we need to do to foster a strong economy moving forward. The conversation is wide-ranging from inflation to immigration and export-led economic growth. "You start...
Scott Skinner On How The Clean Foundation Can Help N.S. Achieve Net-Zero Emissions Targets
September 08, 2022 03:00 - 57 minutes - 56 MBFor several weeks now, David Campbell and Don Mills have been exploring the landscape for green energy companies in the Maritimes, speaking with leaders of companies developing wind, nuclear and hydrogen sources to supply the region with growing power needs. This week on the Huddle "Insights" podcast, they speak with Scott Skinner, the CEO of the Clean Foundation in Nova Scotia. With a staff of 90 people, the non-profit organization delivers programming on green energy solutions fo...
Fox Harb'r Resort Plays An Important Economic Role In Cumberland County
September 01, 2022 03:00 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBRon Joyce's vision to create a destination resort on Nova Scotia's north shore that would contribute to the local economy has been largely achieved with new near-term investments being planned. Joyce and his family have invested more than $100 million in the resort that opened in 2000. The resort's economic impact in terms of county taxes, employment and purchase of local goods and services is in the millions of dollars annually. In the latest "Insights" podcast, Kevin Toth, the P...
Brett Plummer On The Big Opportunity For Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
August 25, 2022 03:00 - 55 minutes - 49.5 MBThis week on the Insights podcast, Don Mills and David Campbell continue their conversations about the transformation of the energy sector in Atlantic Canada as it looks to decarbonize our economy and continue to foster a strong regional economy. Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) could be an important source of electricity production that provides essentially carbon-free energy that, unlikely many other sources of green energy, provides baseload stable power production whether or not w...
EverWind Bets Big On Green Hydrogen
August 18, 2022 03:00 - 55 minutes - 50 MBThe latest "Insights" podcast features an in-depth conversation with Trent Vichie, the CEO of EverWind Fuels, which has plans to be the first company in Nova Scotia to commercially produce green hydrogen from wind power. Vichie's company has already invested about $100 million in the project, recently completing the purchase of the tank farm at Point Tupper which has the capacity to store nearly eight million barrels of fuel. EverWind has ambitions to transform Nova Scotia into an...
Best Of 'Insights': The N.S. Entrepreneur Who Helped Build Three Billion-Dollar Companies
August 11, 2022 03:00 - 52 minutes - 47.1 MBIn this rebroadcast of one of the most popular “Insights” podcasts, David Campbell and Don Mills chat with one of Atlantic Canada's most successful business leaders, Clearwater Seafoods co-founder John Risley, someone who has been part of building three different companies that sold for more than $1 billion each. Risley shares candid opinions about the kinds of public policy changes needed in Atlantic Canada. He also tells the story about how Clearwater Seafoods was founded and the...
Best Of 'Insights': John Bragg On Running A Blueberry And Telcom Empire From Rural N.S.
August 04, 2022 03:00 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBJohn Bragg will make you believe that rural and small-town economies can flourish despite the widespread perception that the future of job and wealth creation is in our larger urban centres. After all, he has built globally competitive companies from a small town - Oxford, Nova Scotia. In this rebroadcast of one of the most popular Huddle “Insights” podcasts, Don Mills and David Campbell have a look at the challenges of rural economic development and speak to one of the region’s bi...
Heritage Gas: John Hawkins On A Company In Transition
July 28, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBIn the last couple of episodes, Don Mills and David Campbell have talked about companies about the ocean of opportunities for power generation and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the region. In this episode, they speak with John Hawkins, the CEO of Nova Scotia-based Heritage Gas, about the natural gas and hydrogen opportunities in the region. Hawkins provides an interesting perspective on what needs to be done to get to net zero by 2050, especially with regard to the role that...
Planetary Technologies Explores An Ocean Of Opportunities To Address Climate Crisis
July 21, 2022 03:00 - 58 minutes - 57.4 MBIn this episode of the "Insights" podcast, Don Mills and David Campbell continue their series on innovative emerging companies in our region with a conversation with CEO Mike Kelland and Chief Chemist Will Burt of the Nova Scotia-based Planetary Technologies. The company has developed a unique ocean-based carbon removal technology that recently won a $1-million Xprize from the Elon Musk Foundation. Its mission is to remove one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by...
Has Tidal Power Finally Arrived On Our Shores?
July 14, 2022 03:00 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBSustainable Marine has just connected its turbines to the Nova Scotia power grid in a real-life demonstration project to prove its surface-based technology can harness the power of the Bay of Fundy. Our conversation with their CEO Jason Hayman is a must-listen for anyone looking to understand the challenges and opportunities associated with tidal power. After numerous failed attempts by others to generate power from the world's highest and most powerful tides, Sustainable Marine h...
Rick Emberley On How Older Workers Can Help Address The Labour Shortage
July 07, 2022 03:00 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBAtlantic Canada has a growing workforce problem. There are not nearly enough young people to take the place of those who are retiring. Rick Emberley, the founder of SeasonedPros, thinks he has one part of the solution. His company matches older workers with companies in need of short-term talent in technical, management and mentorship roles. On the latest Huddle "Insights" podcast, he joins Don Mills and David Campbell to talk about how older workers could be mobilized to help ens...
David Shipley On How People Can Play Superheroes In The Fight Against Cyber Crimes
June 30, 2022 03:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MBOver the summer, Don Mills and David Campbell will be interviewing the founders of high-growth potential companies across the region. The series starts with David Shipley, the CEO of Fredericton-based Beauceron Security. The company has an interesting product and service meant to help companies and their employees take better control over their own cybersecurity. David talks about his personal road to entrepreneurship and the company’s plan to carve off its share of the $75-billion...
Steve Matier On The Commercial And Tourism Potential For Canada's First Spaceport
June 23, 2022 03:00 - 51 minutes - 46.6 MBThis episode of the "Insights" podcast features a fascinating conversation with Steve Matier, the CEO of Maritime Launch Services, the company behind the Spaceport to be built near Canso, Nova Scotia. With most regulatory approvals now in place, the company is nearing its construction phase which will see an investment of $150 million to build Canada's first commercial spaceport. Find out about the company's plans, its decision to locate in Canso and the economic benefits to the co...
Michelle Simms On The Genesis Of Billion-Dollar Companies Like Verafin
June 16, 2022 10:19 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBMichelle Simms, the president and CEO of the Genesis Centre at Memorial University, joins Don Mills and David Campbell on the latest episode of the "Insights" podcast. The Genesis Centre has been supporting startup companies in Newfoundland and Labrador for 25 years. Many of the province’s top tech startups - most notably Verafin, which sold for nearly $3-billion U.S. - were incubated through the centre’s Enterprise program, which has an innovative royalty-based financing model. Ne...
Peter Moreira On Why The Atlantic Region Is A Startup Backwater No More
June 09, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 50.4 MBOn this week's "Insights" podcast, David Campbell speaks with Entrevestor Peter Moreira, who has tracked and accumulated data for more than 770 technology-based Atlantic Canadian companies, including investment, revenue and employment trends. Entrevestor, the leading chronicler on startup companies in the region, has a new report coming out on June 14 but he gives us a sneak peek. Want to know how much investment the 771 firms received in 2021? Want to know the percentage of the 20...
Mount Allison's 'CEO Of Optimism' On Why Universities Provide More Than Education
June 01, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 54.3 MBIn the latest "Insights" podcast, Jean-Paul Boudreau, the President of Mount Allison University and "CEO of Optimism," underscores the many roles that the post-secondary institutions play in the communities where they are located, especially smaller ones like Sackville. Beyond the role of educator, universities are important economic enablers as an employer and consumers of goods and services; as innovators and researchers; as incubators for entrepreneurs; and as community partners...
The Transformative Economic Impact Of The Nova Scotia Community College
May 26, 2022 03:00 - 46 minutes - 40.6 MBIt is hard to overestimate the impact and importance of the contribution of the Nova Scotia Community College to Nova Scotia's economy and the communities where the College has campuses. In this episode of the "Insights" podcast, Don Mills and David Campbell talk to CEO Don Bureaux about the transformation of the institution over the past 20 years, its role as an employer and economic enabler, and its success adapting to changing labour market needs. "We exist ... to produce the h...
Why Beth Mason Says Cape Breton Is A 'Magical' Place With Great Innovative Potential
May 19, 2022 03:00 - 56 minutes - 48.4 MBOn the latest episode of the "Insights" podcast, Don Mills and David Campbell are continuing their series of conversations with organizations helping to foster innovation in Atlantic Canada. Don and David talk with Dr. Beth Mason, the Chief Executive Officer of the Verschuren Centre for Sustainability in Energy and the Environment located in Cape Breton. Listeners may be surprised to hear the organization is one of the larger research and development organizations in the region wit...
Jim Irving Heads List Of Popular Interviews As 'Insights' Podcast Hits 25,000 Downloads
May 12, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 51.7 MBThe Huddle "Insights" podcast has now surpassed 25,000 downloads since it was launched a little more than a year ago. And the show's most popular episodes are with the region's successful entrepreneurs. The feature interview with J.D. Irving, Limited Co-CEO Jim Irving topped the list. He emphasized that the key to growth for companies in the region is population growth and immigration. “If people feel welcome they generally stay if there are reasonable opportunities,” says Jim. “Ju...
How Innovacorp's Unique Approach Helps Startups Become Billion-Dollar Companies
May 05, 2022 03:25 - 54 minutes - 43.4 MBInnovacorp is the only organization of its kind in the region, perhaps the country, that combines incubation, acceleration programming and funding to the start-up community. Its one-stop approach has been proven successful, recently celebrating its first unicorn investment where its investment of $3-million in Meta Materials Inc. six years ago has returned $101-million to the crown corporation. Innovacorp operates three separate incubation facilities, the Labs, the Bays and COVE. ...
Jeff White On Why Innovative Companies Need Support At The Earliest Stages Of Growth
April 28, 2022 03:00 - 57 minutes - 57.4 MBAs part of their ongoing "Insights podcast series on fostering innovation in Atlantic Canada, David Campbell and Don Mills talk with Jeff White, the CEO of the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF). White talks about the importance of investing at the earliest stage in the life of an innovation-focused company. These early investments allow the firms to attract other sources of capital and ultimately scale their innovative ideas to national and international markets. White say...
Matt Cooper On The Volta Effect On The Region's Innovative Companies
April 21, 2022 03:00 - 58 minutes - 52.9 MBAs part of a new series of Huddle "Insights" podcasts, Don Mills and David Campbell are talking to experts to determine what we should do to foster a more innovative economy in Atlantic Canada. New research published by the OECD finds the four Atlantic Provinces invest far less than the OECD average in research and development as a share of GDP. What would it take to encourage businesses to invest more into innovation? How can we better leverage public research and development expe...
Halifax Partnership Serves As A Model for Community Economic Development
April 14, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBCEO Wendy Luther joins Don Mills and David Campbell to discuss Halifax Partnership's new five-year strategy, which focuses on three themes: People, Planet and Prosperity. This episode of Insights is brought to you by MNP Digital – a firm that guides, protects, and empowers organizations along their digital journey. See how at mnpdigital.ca.
A New Type Of Premier For Newfoundland and Labrador
April 07, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 47.4 MBIn this episode of the Huddle "Insights" podcast, Premier Andrew Furey provides a thoughtful overview of the demographic and fiscal challenges faced by Newfoundland and Labrador, the need to diversify the province's economy, and the near term opportunities for the province's oil industry which represents 25 per cent of its GDP in the wake of the war in Ukraine. The “Insights” podcast combines the experiences of an economist, David Campbell, and a social scientist, Don Mills, to exp...
Tim Houston On Nova Scotia's Plan To Reach A Population Of Two Million People
March 31, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBPremier Tim Houston of Nova Scotia wants to be remembered for setting the stage for growth when people look back on his government's achievements decades from now. Population growth is a top priority along with improving access to healthcare, he tells Don Mills and David Campbell on the latest Huddle "Insights" podcast. "People drive economies so we need people," says Houston of his ambitious goal to grow the population to two million by 2060. "We know the flip side of that from de...
Premier Blaine Higgs On Why N.B. Will Emerge Stronger From The Pandemic
March 24, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBThis is the second of our exclusive Insights interviews with Atlantic Canada’s premiers. New Brunswick weathered the pandemic better than most jurisdictions in the areas of public health, economic growth, population growth and government finances. Premier Blaine Higgs discusses a wide variety of topics from how his government tackled the pandemic to economic development, municipal reform, bilingualism and the new health care strategy. Higgs says the province is emerging strongly fr...
P.E.I. Premier Dennis King Is A Refreshingly Different Kind Of Politician
March 17, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBIn this episode, Don Mills and David Campbell start a series of conversations with the Premiers of Atlantic Canada, beginning with Dennis King of P.E.I. Progressive Conservative Premier King is an unconventional poilitical leader in these highly partisan times. He is a collaborator - a friendly, affable and self-effacing person who gives credit to and works well with others, including opposition parties and former premiers from other parties. A noteworthy example would be former L...
Bernard LeBlanc On Why The Moncton Airport Is An Important Economic Driver
March 10, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 52.3 MBDon Mills and David Campbell chat with Bernard Leblanc, the CEO of the Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport, about the impact of the pandemic and the efforts underway to rebuild its routes and increase cargo traffic. They also discuss how important the decision to move to a community-based airport authority was to improve infrastructure and service in air transportation across Canada. When the airport released its last economic impact study in 2016, it showed the Mon...
Why The 'Food Professor' Says Agriculture Should Be A Bigger Economic Driver
March 03, 2022 04:00 - 57 minutes - 52.2 MBOn this episode of the "Insights" podcast, Don Mills and David Campbell take a closer look at the importance of the agricultural sector to the economy both across Canada and in Atlantic Canada with a wide-ranging conversation with Sylvain Charlebois - one of Canada's top food experts widely known as the "Food Professor." Charlebois, the Senior Director of the Agri-Foods Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University, chats with Mills about the opportunities for growth in an Atlantic region ...
The Atlantic Canadian Farm For Baby Unicorns
February 24, 2022 04:00 - 56 minutes - 53.1 MBKathryn Lockhart, the CEO of the startup accelerator Propel, says start-up incubators and accelerators are playing a vital role in nurturing the tech sector across Atlantic Canada, supporting, in some way, around 90 per cent of all recent successful tech startups across the region. Lockhart shares her vision of an Atlantic Canada that is home to dozens of ‘baby unicorns’, startups with a valuation of at least $50-million.
Values, Not Demography, Are Destiny: A Conversation With Michael Adams
February 17, 2022 04:00 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBThis episode features a fascinating interview with one of Canada's most distinguished market researchers, Michael Adams, the Chairman and Co-Founder of Environics Research. In this wide-ranging conversation, Michael provides listeners with a data-based analysis of the diverging differences in values between Canadians and Americans through the pioneering work done by Environics in social values research.
Demography is Destiny: Michael Adams On The Impact Of Social Values in Society
February 17, 2022 04:00 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBThis episode features a fascinating interview with one of Canada's most distinguished market researchers, Michael Adams, the Chairman and Co-Founder of Environics Research. In this wide-ranging conversation, Michael provides listeners with a data-based analysis of the diverging differences in values between Canadians and Americans through the pioneering work done by Environics in social values research.
John Risley Unplugged
February 10, 2022 04:00 - 52 minutes - 47.1 MBDavid Campbell and Don Mills continue their series profiling the region's top entrepreneurs with one of Atlantic Canada's most successful business leaders, Clearwater Seafoods co-founder John Risley, someone who has been part of building three different companies that sold for more than $1 billion each.
Much More than a Lottery: A Conversation With Atlantic Lottery CEO Patrick Daigle
February 03, 2022 04:00 - 49 minutes - 46.4 MBWhen people think about the Atlantic Lottery Corporation (ALC) they usually focus on lottery tickets and big prizes, but its impact is much greater than that. It's an important contributor to the economy through its role as an employer and the indirect jobs created in the region which support the lottery. ALC has contributed $10-billion since its inception in the 1970s to provincial governments in support of public services like health and education. In the latest Huddle "Insights"...
Much More Than A Lottery: A Conversation With Atlantic Lottery CEO Patrick Daigle
February 03, 2022 04:00 - 49 minutes - 46.4 MBWhen people think about the Atlantic Lottery Corporation (ALC) they usually focus on lottery tickets and big prizes, but its impact is much greater than that. It's an important contributor to the economy through its role as an employer and the indirect jobs created in the region which support the lottery. ALC has contributed $10-billion since its inception in the 1970s to provincial governments in support of public services like health and education. In the latest Huddle "Insights"...