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From Beirut to Halifax: Peggy Elias, JM Gems in a City Built by Newcomers

After leaving Lebanon in the years following the Beirut port explosion, jewellery designer and gemmologist Peggy Elias began again in Nova Scotia. Her journey is personal, but it also belongs to a much older Halifax story, one written by generations of immigrants who arrived, rebuilt and contributed to the city they came to call home. […]
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A Smarter Immigration Strategy: What It Could Mean for Nova Scotia and Construction

Canada’s immigration debate is often reduced to one question: are the numbers too high or too low? RBC’s September 2026 report, A Smarter Immigration Strategy, argues that this is the wrong place to start. Canada still needs immigration because its population is aging, deaths are beginning to outpace births, and more than 25,000 Canadians are […]
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Canada Needs More Business Investment. But Should Government Pay for It?

In a September 11 Financial Post commentary titled “Fix bad policy if Canada wants investment,” economist Jack M. Mintz challenges Prime Minister Mark Carney’s strategy for attracting investment to Canada. The timing is deliberate. Canada’s Investment Summit on September 14-15 is intended to advance the government’s goal of catalysing $1 trillion in total public and […]
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The AI Jobs Apocalypse Has Not Arrived. But the Boom May Be More Fragile Than It Looks

For several years, one of the dominant fears surrounding artificial intelligence has been that it would rapidly eliminate white-collar jobs. The Economist argues that the evidence from the United States now points in almost the opposite direction. AI is destroying some jobs, but the investment boom surrounding the technology appears to be creating substantially more. […]
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