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Social Spectrum UPFRONT UPFRONT From our social spectrum eNewsletter Q&A with our Facebook Friends followers ABM Where do you want your business/organization to be in ABM If you're an entrepreneur, where are LISA DRADER-MURPHY Not me. I moved my five years? What will it take to you located? Why are you here? What do thriving business. I had 22 employees, a factory, get there? What’s holding you you like best (or least) about your local and was opening my third store. We were very back? business environment? intent on making Atlantic Canada our home to enjoy the beauty, lifestyle, and the people. JAMES RICHARD KIELY, ASPIRING LISA DRADER-MURPHY My company is PRODUCER MUSIC/FILM, HALIFAX: based in Falmouth with a flagship store on RACHEL DODDS I had a very rewarding career In five years, I would like to have a Halifax's waterfront. I chose to move my for nine years but did meet the limitations of successful music-to-film writing, successful business here from Calgary 12 years living in a region. I had progressed to a level in recording and production company ago to enjoy a slower, healthier lifestyle to raise the company and industry that moving back to in Canada and the United States. I’d my young family. I LOVE the loyalty of my Toronto was the only route to progress. It was like to have our first screenplay fully clients and community here. I’ve had opportu- time to start my own business so I could stay in produced and shot in the Hollywood nities to take my brand to the world stage via N.S. and continue to evolve. style and our original songs released international media, attendance at the Golden as the official soundtrack. I would Globe festivities, and now, the upcoming ABM If you weren't an entrepreneur, what like to win an Oscar, a Grammy and Cannes Film Festival in May. Yes, I could’ve would you be? become a “force to be reckoned done these things from Calgary, but I wouldn’t with” in the industry, working with be coming home to my beautiful property in the LISA DRADER-MURPHY I suppose I would top directors. In this business, it’s Annapolis Valley! I’m proud to travel abroad still be employed as a designer for the garment all about connections and the oppor- and sing the praises of N.S., my home province! manufacturing industry, which was rewarding tunity to show off your product, also as well, but nothing compares to my experi- known as “getting noticed”. If your RACHEL DODDS I located here from Toronto ences as an entrepreneur. :) product is not on the shelf, you can after I graduated in 1994. I was drawn to the hardly expect people to buy it. quality of life and people in the Maritimes. I RACHEL DODDS Less than two weeks after I What’s holding me back? Negative started my own business in 2002 and I run it made the major decision to embrace entrepre- inertia. Lack of clarity/vision. And out of a bright and sunny office on Argyle Street neurship full-time, I was offered my dream the absence of financial backing. in downtown Halifax. I love being in the middle marketing job. I figured it was a test from the of the endless energy that downtown offers Universe. I stuck to the entrepreneur plan and every day of the week, all year long. Parking was decided the marketing job and others would Join the a bit of a challenge for work, so I bought a place always be there if things didn't work out. downtown on the waterfront and walk to work. conversation I’m grateful for the quality of business and CRE8IV DESIGN STUDIO INC. Personally, I Follow us on Facebook, personal life Atlantic Canada offers. always knew I would be back home in N.L.! N.S. Twitter & LinkedIn & gave me my start in the world of business, as CRE8IV DESIGN STUDIO INC. We’re located jobs were scarce at the time, however I would you may be in Mount Pearl, N.L.! After running a business not change a thing, as it led me to where I am for several years in Nova Scotia, and having today. What would I be if not an entrepreneur? I featured in the clientele all over the country, personally it was would hope still in the design industry helping next issue time to move the business back to our N.L. business with their branding — if something of Atlantic Business roots. The response has been amazing from other then design... Hmmm tough one! I can't Magazine – Atlantic local businesses, friends and family and our imagine doing anything else! Canada’s largest business just keeps growing and growing each year! We’ve never been busier thanks to our BAREFOOT FACILITATION AND DEVELOP- circulation business economic growth in N.L. MENT Located in Halifax. Before ‘taking the magazine! leap’ in 2008 I had worked in the health system ABM It’s interesting that you all left other here in N.S., so it made sense to continue with places for your current location. Did you roots here as bulk of my clients are N.S. based. start your own business because you felt I’m originally from St. John’s, N.L., so I’m there weren't any job opportunities for looking to broaden scope to ‘home’! Love you? Atlantic Canada ... while opps may take me away ... THIS is where I need to be! Nice question! Online extras: atlanticbusinessmagazine.com | 11 UPFRONT FROM NO TO SHOW Trade talk holdout says it will come to the table ewfoundland and Labrador has Nannounced it will join trade talks between Canada and the European Union, two years after the province nearly scuttled the process altogether. Photo by Paul Daly It is another sign of the détente between the government of Premier Kathy Dunderdale (photo right) and Ottawa — especially compared to her predecessor, Danny Williams. The U-turn was announced in a March 17 news release. “The provincial that Newfoundland and Labrador would time that provincial officials were part of government chose to monitor Canada- “absolutely not” sign on. “We will not be the Canadian delegation. And sources close European Union trade negotiations to get joining the federal government in these to the talks characterized the province’s a sense of the willingness of the federal negotiations,” Williams said in May 2009, officials as “aggressively observing” the government to fairly represent the interests noting that the days of “kowtowing to the negotiations. of Newfoundland and Labrador,” said federal government” were over. According to the feds, a 2008 study Susan Sullivan, the province’s minister of Much of that talk may have been for concluded that a stronger economic innovation, trade and rural development. show. In the fall of 2009, Newfoundland partnership could boost Canada’s economy “After closely monitoring the proceedings and Labrador acknowledged that it had by $12 billion annually and increase two- to date, I believe that to continue to senior officials at the ongoing Canada- way trade with Europe by 20 per cent. meaningfully shape the outcomes we now EU discussions. However, the province The seventh round of Canada-EU talks have to participate as more than observers.” insisted it was only monitoring the talks, was scheduled to take place in Ottawa in The move comes two years after not actually participating in them. That April. Williams told the provincial legislature was news to the feds, who stressed at the —Rob Antle It takes a village Dr. Abdullah Kirumira’s global success as an innovator-entrepreneur comes down to a simple equation: you can’t treat what you can’t detect. The former biochemistry professor made international waves when he developed the world’s first rapid acting HIV test while at Acadia University. Today the CEO of Windsor, NS-based BioMedica Diagnostics Inc. is behind a new “lab in a box” technology, enabling cash-strapped clinics in developing countries to diagnose and treat hundreds of diseases. A payroll rebate from NSBI is helping the company get a leg up on its ambitious $500,000 expansion plans to meet international demand. Which just goes to show that when it comes to saving lives and competing globally, it takes a village. BUSINESS FINANCING | TRADE DEVELOPMENT | VENTURE CAPITAL | INVESTMENT ATTRACTION | www.nsbi.ca Connect with NSBI: – Dr. Abdullah Kirumira, founder and CEO, BioMedica Diagnostics Inc. NSBI_7.125x4.875_April14_AtlanticBus.indd 1 11-04-14 2:56 PM 12 | Atlantic Business Magazine | May/June 2011 UPFRONT NOTES ON A SCANDAL Civil lawsuits to recoup cash from politicians now net less than zero, but that should change candals that rocked two Atlantic legislatures in recent years Ssparked promises to go after the bank balances of politicians who improperly spent their taxpayer-funded expense accounts. In Nova Scotia, where four current or former politicians are facing a total of 52 charges, Premier Darrell Dexter has vowed to recoup cash paid to MLAs who are ultimately convicted. “We want the money back and you know we’re going to protect the Photo by Paul Daly interests of the people of the province,” Dexter said in February. “If there is a finding of guilt and an order of restitution, you know my expectation is that we will take every possible measure to recover.” The experience in Newfoundland and Labrador shows that can be a costly proposition. Four former politicians in that province were convicted on similar corruption charges in recent years (photo this page from court in 2009).
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