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Boomer Town
By Renée Hartleib |
Making it work in the Maritimes is a recurring theme for Kyler Crawford. He’s been around. Originally from Moncton, he completed two undergraduate degrees at St. Francis Xavier before a spell playing professional football in Germany. But it was a five-year stint at a large professional services firm in Ottawa that led to some serious thinking about reshaping his career. >
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Something to Talk About
By Suzanne Robicheau |
There was a time when Matthew Fanning dreaded public speaking.
“It’s not unusual,” says Fanning, a Finance major who graduated from Saint Mary’s University in 2008 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. “Most people would rather encounter a grizzly bear than stand on stage to deliver a speech.”
What is unusual is that after working for a few years, first as…
Once Upon A Mattress
By Suzanne Robicheau |
There’s a fairytale quality to Chen Qing’s success selling mattresses—but there’s nothing long ago and far away about the way the young Business Management major parlayed two free movie tickets into a Halifax-based business worth more than $200,000.
The story begins only five years ago when a 19-year-old from China arrived in Halifax to attend the Sobey School of Business.
“Someone…