One of Cooke Aquaculture’s automated feed delivery systems near Digby, Nova Scotia. Image: Submitted   Dec 11, 2017 by The Canadian Press HALIFAX — J.D. Irving Limited and Cooke Aquaculture are among the businesses that have benefitted from financial help from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) in its 30-year history. The agency was started in 1987 by then-Prime…

At least 35 radiation oncology patients who had appointments at the Saint John Regional Hospital on Tuesday morning had their appointments cancelled because of the computer outage. (CBC) The computer systems at both of the province’s regional health authorities are down, forcing them to revert to paper files, cancel some services and turn some patients away,…

Nov 23, 2017 by Huddle Staff New Brunswick businesswoman Robyn Tingley is being recognized as one of the country’s most powerful women by the Women’s Executive Network (WXN). Tingley, the founder and president of Saint John-based consulting firm GlassSky, is one of the 100 women named to the Network’s  2017 “Canada’s Most Powerful Women” list. Canada’s Most Powerful…

Nov 17, 2017by Huddle Staff SAINT JOHN – The province’s private sector companies recorded new highs in 2016 in venture capital investment and capital raised by publicly traded companies, according to a new report issued by the Finacial and Consumer Services Commission. Venture capital firms invested $31.04-million in local companies across 31 deals, the highest amount in any…

Rory and Tracy Bell, the owners of Saint John-based Millennia Tea, are appearing on CBC’s Dragon’s Den on Thursday night. (Courtesy Tracy Bell) Millennia Tea will feature its flash-frozen products on CBC’s Dragons’ Den By Sarah Trainor, CBC News Posted: Nov 16, 2017 Shaken by a cancer scare in the family, a Saint John couple first dipped its…

Nov 10, 2017 by Huddle Staff Port Saint John on a triple cruise ship day. Image: Port Saint John SAINT JOHN – The last cruise ship has left for the year, signalling the end of the tourism season. The local hospitality industry celebrated Thursday night with a gala awards dinner attended by more than 200 people at…

An Irving semi tanker truck arrives at the Imperial Oil Terminal in Dartmouth, N.S. Image: iStock photos. Nov 9, 2017 by Huddle Staff Irving Oil, Medavie Blue Cross and the University of New Brunswick have once again been included in the list of Canada’s Top 100 employers. Now in its 19th year, Canada’s Top 100 Employers project is a…

Nov 1, 2017by Mark Leger Cloud5 Communications is one of the companies that took part in a job fair for Sears contact centre employees in Saint John. (Image: Mark Leger/Huddle) SAINT JOHN – Shortly after Sears announced it was closing its contact centres in Saint John and Edmundston, along with its stores nationwide, ContactNB asked its member businesses…

A Marshalls storefront in the U.S. (Image: iStock)       Oct 26, 2017by Huddle Staff SAINT JOHN – Marshalls is opening a store on the east side next year, an official with the company confirmed Thursday. It will be a combined store with HomeSense, which is currently co-located with the Winners on the east side. Winners,…

  Oct 19, 2017by Mark Leger Dragons’ Den judges sample Millennia Tea. Image: submitted SAINT JOHN – Tracy and Rory Bell have honed a successful pitch for Millennia Tea. Pioneers of a flash-frozen tea line that best preserves its antioxidant qualities, the entrepreneurs from Saint John (via Dieppe) impressed renowned tea experts and writers from around the world…

Oct 12, 2017 by Cherise Letson T4G’s VP Cathy Simpson; HotSpot CEO Phillip Curley; T4G President Geoff Flood at the announcement of a Big Data initiative in May, 2016. Image: file photo SAINT JOHN– After almost 15 years on the westside, technology solutions company T4G is moving its Saint John office to the uptown core that is the heart of…