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Note this article references Don Mills at the Halifax Examiner by Suzanne Rent this month:
"So it was that I heard those longtime and oft-repeated lines from MP Sean Fraser at a luncheon hosted by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce last week. Fraser was speaking about the Atlantic Economic Panel report that said what Nova Scotians have been told for too long: that we need to be more ambitious and productive. Philip Moscovitch wrote about that word salad of a report in this Morning File.
As an ambitious person to my core, it’s maddening standing at the back of a ballroom filled with people eating cheesecake and listening to the likes of Don Mills, one of the authors of the above-mentioned report, who was beamed in via a video call to tell us how lazy we are. Don Mills has done well for himself by telling us this for years.
By the way, EverWind was one of the sponsors of that luncheon."
Since I discovered "Don Mills" and his podcasts I found him on X where he is now "hiding" his posts... not helpful but very interesting: Don Mills (@DonMillsHFX) / X
Podcast notes here:
Three years ago I started writing a book. Not because I had extra time. I didn't. Not because it was the smart business move. It wasn't. But because I kept having the same conversation with founders, investors, and policymakers, and I felt like someone needed to write it down. Today, Back to Prosperity: Awakening Canada's Next Industrial Engine is available on Amazon. The book makes a specific argument: Atlantic Canada is sitting on a set of non-replicable competitive advantages in climate technology, ocean science, defence, health, and advanced manufacturing that the global innovation economy has not yet correctly valued. The valuation discount is structural. The moat is real. The window for building a leading position is measured in years, not decades. This is not a book about what Atlantic Canada could be with more government support. It is a book about what it already is, and what needs to happen for that value to compound in Canada rather than migrate elsewhere. If you are building a company in this region, investing in it, shaping the policy environment around it, or building something somewhere else while wondering if you should have built it here, I wrote this for you. Link in the comments. 👇"
