News

Tidal turbine testing approved

September 18, 2009 - 2:42pm - Ian Finley
21 months after its announcement, the Fundy tidal power demonstration got the go ahead from Nova Scotia's Environment Minister Sterling Belliveau. The $10 million project will test underwater turbines that are designed to harness the power of the world's highest tides in the Minas Basin near Parrsboro. Read more

Ian Hanomansing to host Celebrating Communities Confernce in Truro

September 16, 2009 - 3:35pm - Ian Finley
CBC news personality Ian Hanomansing is flying in from Vancouver to speak at The Celebrating Communities Conference and Awards, September 23-25 in Truro. The event showcases the achievement of communities and people from around the province. Read more

Seaside High-Speed Internet to host public meeting at Lyon’s Brook Community Hall

September 11, 2009 - 12:28pm - Ian Finley
(Pictou, NS) Seaside High-Speed Internet invites residents to attend a public community meeting at Lyon’s Brook Community Hall on Thursday, September 17th at 7:00 p.m. Seaside will update residents on the status of the Broadband for Rural Nova Scotia (BRNS) project for the north shore communities of Pictou and Colchester. Read more

PEI announces Public Internship Program

September 10, 2009 - 2:18pm - Ian Finley
Through the Canada-Prince Edward Island Labour Market Agreement (LMA), the Province has established the Public Internship Program to provide recent graduates with employment experience and skill enhancement to better position them to secure future employment. Read more

Provincial I-3 Technology Start-Up competition launched

September 10, 2009 - 12:18pm - Ian Finley
More than $700,000 worth of seed investment and business building services will be awarded to 10 start-up companies in the 2009 provincial I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition. Read more

Nova Scotia IT firm lands US Homeland Security contract

September 10, 2009 - 11:18am - Ian Finley
Halifax based Nicom IT Solutions has been awarded a contract to develop a cargo-tracking system for the United States Department of Homeland Security. Read more

Fredericton gallery wins appeal over Beaverbrook collection

September 9, 2009 - 10:45am - Alex Willis
The Fredericton-based Beaverbrook Art Gallery has won an appeal in a long-standing dispute over 85 works of art in its collection that were being claimed by Lord Beaverbrook's descendents. The ruling, which was released overnight, brings to an end a five-year legal battle between the gallery and the U.K.-based Beaverbrook Foundation, which is controlled by descendents of the Canadian-born British politician and businessman, who died in 1964. Read more

ECC hits newstands in Halifax

September 8, 2009 - 3:45pm - Ian Finley
Chris Crowell sat down business reporter Clare Mellor and discussed how ECC has achieved so much in just over 2 years. In the article, published in the business section of Saturday’s Chronicle Herald, Chris says that in the 21st Century, the ‘brain drain’ concept is really ‘out of date’. Read more

Digby's fifth annual wharf rat rally a roaring success

September 7, 2009 - 11:34am - Danielle Kelly
The fifth annual Wharf Rat Rally concludes today in Digby, Nova Scotia. Last year the rally, the largest of its kind in Atlantic Canada, drew an estimated 60,000 attendees on 17,000 bikes. Pumping close to 4 million dollars into the 2,100 resident town. The 2009 rally will raise money for the Digby Area Learning Association. Read more

ECC Profiles: Greg Hemmings, Owner and Founder of Hemmings House Pictures

August 31, 2009 - 8:50am - Alex Willis
If you live in Atlantic Canada, it’s hard to miss Greg Hemmings. Just pick up a paper, and you might see one of his photo “Postcards” in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal. Or maybe on the way to work you’ll see an advertisement his production studio, Hemmings House Pictures, put together. Read more