Business

It’s been a year-and-half since Canada’s national newspaper, The Globe & Mail had an Atlantic bureau chief based in Halifax.

Rick Perkins, fresh from his success in taking over the board of Alberta-based Liquor Stores, is poised to change the face of mergers and acquisitions in this country.

The collapse of the Northern cod fishery occurred nearly 30 years ago, and saw giant processing companies like National Sea, predecessor in Lunenburg of High Liner Foods, begin shuttering seafood plants across the Atlantic Canada.

This spring, in between building a news website, and digging for story ideas for the new The Macdonald Notebook, I also took the time out to reflect on the incredible and remarkable life of a mentor and father figure to me, who in April shuffled off his mortal coil.

Halifax carpenter’s union boss Peter Greer, died at 64 – not old by today’s standards.

More than 100 people applauded the creation of Canada’s newest marine protected area Thursday night at a Dalhousie University panel discussion on the topic of safeguarding relatively small chunks of the world’s vast oceans.