Opinion

Re: When 12 antipyschotic pills are best friends in The Macdonald Notebook last weekend, PC leader Jamie Baillie writes:

Tim Moore is the founder of several highly successful Canadian businesses. Starting in 1971, Tim borrowed $2000 to purchase a small moving truck.

Recent musings about the federal tax changes are causing significant anxiety for small business owners. In talking with business owners from all levels, there is worry, frustration and, in some cases, anger.

Today, in this weekend’s Fall Back Up, I’m talking with a native Nova Scotian who has earned a reputation as one of the best bladesmiths in the world — Murray Carter.

Rob Steele built his entrepreneurial career in auto-related industries throughout the 1990s.

Atlantic Canada’s impending demographic crisis is beginning to get some traction in government. Economists, statisticians and public policy analysts have been sending up flares for 15 years, but only since the Ivany Report have we begun to see any meaningful activity.

On this episode of Fall Back Up, I’m delighted to sit down with former Syrian refugee and now Nova Scotian entrepreneur, Tareq Hadhad.

Re: The Macdonald Notebook story last weekend noting Halifax Downtown hotels were 100% occupied, Jerome MacPherson writes:

In each generation, there are people who are widely admired. As less well known sides of their character are uncovered, reassessment sets in. More significantly, with the inexorable ebb and flow of social values and attitudes, qualities widely admired at an earlier period sometimes come to be viewed later as grave moral failings or even as criminal.

Tires have historically been environmentally problematic sources of waste. More recently, however, technological advancements have led to much more efficient recycling by manufacturing construction materials, developing tire-derived fuels (TDF), and repurposing.