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Why Deficits Carry More Risk in Atlantic Canada
With large provincial deficits on the books from B.C to Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada’s smaller, aging economies, are being tested faster – and with…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
A Region That Can’t Get Its (Many) Acts Together
Fragmented rules, political resets, and slow permitting have created a region where capital comes to look but rarely stays to build
 • Gina Miller
The Investability Hump
The Atlantic Economic Panel has heard Atlantic Canada has talent and ambition, but inconsistent regulation, outdated perceptions, and weak social…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
Nature Is the New Asset Class and Atlantic Canada Is Leaving Billions on the Table
New Brunswick's Cassidy Lake is the warning and Nova Scotia's EverWind is the proof that institutional capital will invest in natural assets – or leave…
 • Gina Miller
Found in translation: Atlantic Canada's Missing Finance Infrastructure
The tides, the fisheries, the wind: Atlantic Canada's environmental assets are real. The market infrastructure to monetise them is not.
 • Gina Miller
New Brunswick's Billion-Dollar Bet
Three major projects in Saint John, Belledune and the Upper St. John River Valley form the Holt government's opening hand to beat back its…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
The Missing One Per Cent
The Atlantic Economic Panel asks: What would it take for Atlantic Canada to lift long‑term growth by a single percentage point – and why is it so darn…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
Susan Holt Puts Her Cards on the Table
In her second State of the Province address, the New Brunswick premier warned that social progress now depends on blunt economic choices – and…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
Trading Up
Ottawa’s new trade vision prioritizes domestic supply chains and the Maritimes must be ready to receive if it's to be a full partner in Canada's…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
Convincing Homegrown Investors to Buy Local
Atlantic Canada's Sandpiper Ventures and Mexico City show what happens when local capital backs local innovation – sustainable wealth with global reach
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
Trade Talks; Capital Walks
Canadian businesses have access to global markets, but infrastructure and policy certainty are needed to seal the deal, says Aaron Fowler, Canada's…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
How My Walk on The Beach Will Influence National Trade Policy (tis true!)
ACAP Saint John is a great example of how giving power back to people can help solve big, complex issues where the environment and economy merge
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
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