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Did you know that Atlantic Canada scores more than $500-million from sports tourism every year?

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Chef Jeremy Charles' debut cookbook is the cornucopia of Newfoundland food culture on paper

In it to win it: how Atlantic Canada’s sports tourism competes on the world stage

Chester Race Week (Photo: Tim Wilkes Photography) Sport tourism (events that attract competitors from around the world) is a $6.8 billion business in Canada, and it’s trending upward every year. The four easternmost provinces account for almost $500 million of that total—a figure that is ...

Let’s Do Launch: Natasha Dhayagude

CEO and co-founder of Chinova Bioworks, a biotech company making a mushroom-based natural preservative for food, drinks and cosmetics Hometown: Fredericton, N.B. (Dhayagude immigrated from Mumbai at the age of 10) Alma mater: University of New Brunswick (BSC major in biochemistry) Favourite food: “Butter chicken—I’m ...

Taxing issues

What really drives urban business activity? Is it lower taxation? Increased population? Or something else? Intriguing questions—we don’t have the answers, just the following food for thought.

Game misconduct

Tonight’s Halifax Mooseheads’ game—a late-March contest in the first round of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League playoffs—is a sellout. Third in a row? Fourth? Who’s counting? We should. Start with this: a playoff sellout at Halifax’s Scotiabank Centre puts 10,595 bums in seats at ...

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