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METEGHAN RIVER, N.S. – Twenty-five years ago A.F. Theriault and Son Ltd. in Meteghan River, Digby County, was faced with a choice – scale down or diversify. But then scaling down was never a real choice, said managing director Gilles ...

PICTOU - A local marketing company is turning its attention to tourism. Louise Dixon and Andrew Loscher of Media Ladder have started a new web and Facebook page called Experience Pictou where people can find out about businesses, restaurants, ...

Four years after launching Sandman Video in the late ’90s, Michael Sanderson went bankrupt. He was then a single dad, living in an apartment with his young son, and he still remembers how it felt when the ugly truth finally sank ...

Like every tax year, there are changes that both the federal and provincial governments implement that make people really happy, such as increasing the basic personal amount, and other times upset taxpayers by cutting or making it more difficult to ...

The Zenabis cannabis plant in Stellarton will be producing legal weed by the end of this summer if it receives its license from Health Canada – which the company says it will soon have. The company is currently working with engineers and its ...

STELLARTON Sobeys is one of the most admired companies in Canada and number one in the groceries–convenience sector, according to the 2018 Leger Corporate Reputation Study. Leger, Canada’s largest polling and research firm, surveys ...

This year, I’ve received one T4 tax form from my employer, another from our corporate benefits provider, and one from my bank. As such, my tax situation isn’t very complex. Yet, because I don’t have an intimate knowledge of ...

When Craig Thibault and Michelle Blinn moved in together, his three-bedroom home with grey siding in Plympton Station in southwestern Nova Scotia suddenly seemed a tad, well, crowded. “We needed a little more space,” said Thibault. ...

NEW GLASGOW On Wednesday, Sarah Pettipas was busy filling a cart at Superstore in New Glasgow, only she wasn’t shopping for herself. The store employee was shopping for customers who had placed orders online to pick up later at the ...

By this fall, people could be sipping on Starbucks pumpkin spice lattés on East River Road in New Glasgow. Greg Burrows confirmed that he will be opening a Starbucks location which will be built onto the existing Subway location on East ...