Sarah Plowman

3 weeks ago | bnnbloomberg.ca | Sarah Plowman

As tariffs dominate conversations in Maritime fishing communities, uncertainty spills from the wharves to boatyards. “Everybody is kind of concerned about what the future could look like,” said Gilles Theriault, president of A.F. Theriault & Son Ltd. His company, one of the largest privately owned shipyards in Atlantic Canada, builds commercial fishing boats, ferries and Coast Guard vessels in Meteghan River, N.S.—the heart of one of Canada’s largest and most lucrative lobster fishing areas.

3 weeks ago | ctvnews.ca | Sarah Plowman

As tariffs dominate conversations in Maritime fishing communities, uncertainty spills from the wharves to boatyards. “Everybody is kind of concerned about what the future could look like,” said Gilles Theriault, President of A.F. Theriault & Son Ltd. His company, one of the largest privately owned shipyards in Atlantic Canada, builds commercial fishing boats, ferries and Coast Guard vessels in Meteghan River, N.S.—the heart of one of Canada’s largest and most lucrative lobster fishing areas.

1 month ago | ctvnews.ca | Sarah Plowman

As Canadian businesses try to roll with an ever-changing tariff policy south of the border, there’s another issue creating challenges at home: recent changes to Canada’s immigration policy. “The biggest threat to our business is immigration policy, and the lack of available workers,” said Blair Hyslop, co-owner of Mrs. Dunster’s Bakery in Sussex, N.B.In the decade since Hyslop and his wife took over the business, it’s expanded, and he wants it to keep growing.

1 month ago | ctvnews.ca | Sarah Plowman

Scarred, in pain, but alive. Jason and Kellie Kavanagh are still in shock from the day their house in Grand-Digue, New Brunswick exploded. “I just went to bed Thursday evening. Friday morning. Woke up in a snowbank, looked over at the house. Everything was gone,” said Jason Kavanagh in an interview with CTV News from his wife Kellie’s hospital bed at the Moncton Hospital. Jason woke up confused. He didn’t know where he was, what happened or if he was dreaming. “I just called for Kellie’s name.

1 month ago | ctvnews.ca | Sarah Plowman

Classrooms across Canada are seeing more teachers without an education degree and without a teaching certificate. It’s one response to a teacher shortage, and what the Canadian Teachers’ Federation calls a retention and recruitment crisis. “It just can’t be the answer going forward. We need more teachers,” said Peter Lagacy, president of New Brunswick Teachers’ Association (NTBA). “We need certified, qualified teachers in our classes.