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OUTLOOK 2010

2009 OBA Awards Finalists255thAnnualAwards

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Annual

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As 2009 draws to a close, we look back

on our accomplishments and ahead to our

tasks. This past quarter has been busy

including helping our members preparefor H1N1, launching our Member-to-

Member Benefits Program, partnering

with Propel ICT to re-launch the freespots

initiative, and surveying our members on

the proposed sale of NB Power.

We were also very busy advocating for

improvements to maternity and parental

benefits under EI and maintaining our

Canadian Blood Services Production

centre, participating in the Nuclear Waste

Management Organizations multi-party

dialogue sessions, co-hosting a PhysicianRecruitment Reception, and supporting

the new Destination Marketing

Organization, to name a few. Weve had

a busy fall!

Most recently we celebrated business

in Saint John during our 25th Annual

Outstanding Business Achievement

Awards Gala on November 25th. To view

Kathryn Craig,Chair of the Saint John Board of Trade

December 09 Volume 6 No. 4Currents is published 4 times a year for members ofthe Saint John Board of Trade and Greater Saint Johnsbusiness community. Average circulation is 5,000 perissue including distribution to all Board of Trademembers and to all business addresses in GreaterSaint John. Opinions expressed in this publicationare not necessarily the view of the Saint John Boardof Trade. Suggestions and comments are welcome.

The Board of Trade cannot be held responsiblefor any errors or omissions that may occur in thispublication. Currents reserves the right to editany material submitted.

SAINT JOHN BOARD OF TRADE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

EXECUTIVE

Kathryn Craig, ChairpersonFundy Linen Service Inc.

J. Michael Murphy, 1st Vice-ChairBMO Bank of Montreal

John Warrington, 2nd Vice-ChairLorneville Mechanical

Marilyn Singh, SecretaryVision Coaching

Deanna Graves, TreasurerMoosehead Breweries Limited

Dr. Michael Barry, Immediate Past ChairSaint John Medical Society

Patrick Sohy, Member-at-largeAvant-Garde Construction and Management Inc.

Mike Walton, Member-at-largeLantic Sugar Limited

DIRECTORS

Sheikh Bahauddin, Bank of Nova Scotia

Larry Hachey, Gateway Retirement & Estate Planners

Kevin Hocquard, Stantec Consulting Ltd.

John Johnson, University of New Brunswick - SaintJohn

Kelli Lester, Irving Oil Limited

Andy Lodge, Barry Spalding

Chris MacDonald, J.D. Irving Limited

Eric Poirier, Bell Aliant

Donna Robichaud, Grant Thornton LLP

Claire Ryan, Fusion

Al Soppitt, Saint John Port Authority

Gerry Verner, Altus Technology Associates

STAFF

Imelda Gilman, President

Carole Cunningham, Office & Events Coordinator

Michelle MacDonald, Administrative Assistant

Erinor Jacob, Policy & Research Officer

Jennifer Tupper, Marketing & Sales Officer

CONTACT

Please address editorial enquiries to:

Saint John Board of TradePO Box 6037, 40 King St.Saint John, NB E2L 4R5

Tel: (506) 634-8111 Fax: (506) 632-2008E-mail: [email protected]

Visit our website at www.sjboardoftrade.com

PRODUCTION

Editor: Imelda Gilman

Advertising Sales: Jennifer Tupper (506) 634-4159 oremail [email protected]

Graphic Design & Production: Morrison Marketing

Printing: Transcontinental

Mail Preparation: United Catena Training Centre

Mailed under Canada Post Publications MailSales Agreement No. 40010390

Chairs Message

Seasons Greetings

photos and the list of finalists, recipients

and sponsors, please see the back page of

this issue. Thank you to all of our sponsors

and volunteers who continue to make this

the premier business event in Saint Johneach year!

The Winter and Spring promise to be

no less busy! Of course we will continue

to assess the impact of the proposed sale

of NB Power with and on our members.

In addition, we will also be holding our

annual strategic planning session. One of

the key components to the Strategic

Planning Session is the result of our Annual

Membership and Priorities Survey. This

survey will be circulated to the designated

representatives of our member companiesearly in January. This is your, our

members, opportunity to let us know what

issues you would like us to focus on in the

upcoming year. Make the Power of the

Network work for you and your business!

The theme of this issue of Currents is

Outlook 2010 and what better articles

to include than those from members who

are in various industries to give us an idea

of what we can expect as we celebrate our

citys 225th birthday in 2010! And because

the Holiday Season is upon us, weve alsoincluded a small piece on tips to make the

most of holiday festivities in the workplace,

especially in light of H1N1.

On behalf of the Board of Directors and

staff of the Saint John Board of Trade, I

would like to take this opportunity to thank

you for your support throughout 2009.

Happy Holidays!

Membersnetworking duringour SeptemberNetworking Mixerhosted by Century21 River-ValleyRealty Ltd andPrestige Homes.

Stephen Lund,

President andChief ExecutiveOfficer of NovaScotia Business Incaddresses SaintJohn Board of

Trade members ata luncheon inSeptember.

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Outlook 2010

Next year, Saint John, this countrys

oldest incorporated city, will celebrate its

225th birthday as a Cultural Capital of

Canada. The application, prepared in 2007

by the Saint John Community Arts Board,

on behalf of the City, was one of several

dozen received by the Canadian

Department of Heritage in Ottawa. Saint

John is one of just three Canadian

communities to receive this honour for

the coming year. This past September the

Federal Heritage Minister, James Moore,

was in Saint John to make the

announcement, and to congratulate our

community for its excellent application,

and for its ongoing commitment to arts

and culture.

The community of Greater Saint John

has been enjoying a cultural renaissance

during the past decade, something that

has laid the groundwork for this national

recognition. The Saint John Community

Arts Board, created in 2002, has worked

in tandem with the Citys Cultural Office

to advocate for our vibrant arts community.

The reopening of the Saint John Arts

Centre, the continuing success of the

Imperial Theatre, the recent expansion of

the Saint John Theatre Company, the ever-

growing number of world class public

artworks and, of course, the pride in our

Saint John Named

Cultural Capital of

Canada

stunning inventory of heritage buildings

have contributed to this renewed vigour,

making ours a community of choice for

immigration and tourism.

Next year will be a year of celebration

for Greater Saint John. We will celebrate

our history, we will acknowledge all of

our founding peoples, and we will embrace

our multicultural community. We will

celebrate with art, music, dance, theatre,

stories and film. It will be a year to come

home to Saint John and to re-discover the

Original City.

Article submitted by Peter Buckland, Chair of

Saint John 225 Celebrations in 2010.

2009 SaintJohn Board of

TradeOutstandingBusinessAchievementAwards,created bylocal artistPeter Kinsella


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Outlook 2010

Medical programs help to drive healthcare and the economy, which helps to

explain the overwhelming support for

Dalhousie Universitys new medical

program in New Brunswick.

This is going

to be one of the

greatest things to

happen in health

care in New

Brunswick in the

last 40 years,

said John Steeves,MD, the associate

dean of Dalhousie

Medicine New

Brunswick (DMNB) who is leading the

implementation and delivery of

Dalhousies undergraduate medical

education in New Brunswick.

The first class of 30 students will begin

their program next September. They will

spend the first two years studying in Saint

John, and some will fan out across the

province for their final two years tocomplete their clerkships in Fredericton,

Moncton, Miramichi and Saint John.

"Seventy to eighty per cent of new

graduates want to be in a site where

medical education is delivered, said Dr.

Steeves. If people train in a particular

area, theyre more likely to stay in that

region when they graduate.

For this reason the program is expected

to yield more doctors for New Brunswick.

In addition to training much-needed

New Brunswick doctors, the Dalhousie

program will be an important new sector

of provincial economy.

At the official sod turning in early

November, Premier Shawn Graham

announced more than $1.6 million for the

construction of health-care training

facilities for DMNB.

The announcement included $1,158,000

to build anatomy and histology teaching

laboratories at the Saint John RegionalHospital and a $449,000 contract to

construct the clinical teaching space at

the Saint John Regional Hospital. The

construction is now well underway and is

scheduled for

completion in the

spring of 2010.

Dalhousie Medicine

New Brunswick

DMNB will also include a medicalresearch program, which will bring

funding and expertise into the provinc

Dr. Tony Reiman, the assistant dean o

research for the program says four bas

scientists will be hired to teach the medi

school curriculum and all will be activ

researchers.

"They will be doing resear

that will build our opportunit

for the students, and it will a

help to recruit and retain

faculty, and help them todevelop their research

programs, Reiman said.

Article Submitted by Dr. John

Steeves, Associate Dean, Dalhous

Medical NB.

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Outlook 2010

In October the Saint John Board ofTrade in partnership with Propel ICT

announced the re-launch offreespots, the

public Wi-Fi service that covers the City

of Saint John with free wireless internet.

freespots is the wi-fi strategy for the

Saint John region that encourages the

growth of wi-fi hotspots throughout the

city to cover the majority of public access

areas said Imelda Gilman, President of

the Saint John Board of Trade. By

encouraging businesses and property

owners to invest in this relatively low costservice, the city will benefit by creating

an attractive business environment that

enables citizens and visitors to work and

play online from anywhere they choose.

It is our expectation that unlimited

widespread access to wi-fi is in our near

future and we wish to speed its growth

by promoting and encouraging those who

invest in this strategy.

Residents and visitors can get online

wirelessly, with no barriers, and for free

at any location displaying the freespotslogo and decal. The following businesses

and locations are just a few examples that

are freespots: Java Moose Coffee House,

Business Resource Centre, City Hall

Council Chambers, Tri-Star Mercedes-

Benz, and Vitos Restaurant Rothesay

Avenue.

freespots encourages local businesses

to install and maintain wi-fi access points

according to an established standard and

promotes participating businesses and city

property owners that have installed wi-fihotspots according to the standard.

www.freespots.ca has been developed to

feature participating locations and various

venues and events will promote the

strategy and its participants over the long

term. Locations can be registered as

freespots at any time.

"While freespots has been a very

successful program to date, we wanted to

take this opportunity to re-launch and re-

energize the program as demand for wi-

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Fingertips... Building Free

Wi-Fi Access in Saint John

fi access continues to jump to the top ofthe list of customer demands worldwide.

Thefreespots program ensures that the

Saint John business community is on the

cutting edge of supplying free wi-fi access

to residents and visitors alike" Continued

Ms. Gilman.

The Saint John Board of Trade initiative

has the active support of PropelICT.

PropelICT supports all initiatives that

improve the ecosystem for technology

businesses in New Brunswick and UNB

studies have shownfreespots to be one ofthe best strategies in the world. Propel

wishes to see this continue and will

support the Board of Trades continued

efforts to grow this initiative said Jeff

Roach, Executive Director of PropelICT.

For businesses who would like to

become afreespotvisit www.freespots.ca

or call the Board of Trade office at 634-

8111. There are no fees required to

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connecting 124 mile pipeline in the State

of Maine.Work to complete the third LNG storage

tank continues to be on track at the

Canaport LNG terminal that will

ultimately result in increasing the

maximum send-out capacity of 1.0 Billion

cubic feet (Bcf) per day. And most recently

a new report released by the Geological

Survey of Canada suggests that the size

of natural gas reserves embedded in shale

rock located within the region are more

significant than previously thought. Our

regions energy sector continues toenergize our regions economy.

Much has happened in our regional

energy hub this fall. New Brunswick is the

focus of national and international attentionwithin the electricity sector as a result of

the memorandum of understanding (MOU)

signed by the Premiers of Quebec and New

Brunswick on October 29th. Under the

terms of the MOU, Hydro Quebec will

acquire substantially all the performing

assets of NB Power and will undertake the

responsibility to supply energy to New

Brunswick going forward. The deal, valued

by the parties at nearly $10 Billion, will

result in significantly lower power rates

for industrial users in New Brunswick, andrate stabilization for five (5) years for

residential, commercial

and wholesale customers. Details of the

agreement are to be finalized by March31, 2010, and will need to be ratified by

both provincial governments.

Our regions cluster of energy assets

continues to foster further investment in

our region. Irving Oil Limited successfully

completed a major turnaround at its Saint

John refinery. Valued at $220 Million, this

investment was aimed at improving the

refinerys ability to produce higher grade

fuels such as ultra-low sulphur gasoline.

The companys affiliate, Irving Oil

Terminals, Inc, also has announced plansto acquire two petroleum terminals and a

Outlook 2010

Energy HubArticle submitted by Tim Curry,

President of Atlantica Centre for Energy

What your Board of Trade is doing regarding the MOU? We have surveyed our Members initial response, hosted an informationbreakfast with Honourable Jack Keir, Minister of Energy, and have established a Task Force that is meeting with stakeholders andsubject matter experts. We will continue to gauge our Members opinions on the proposed sale of NB Power and provide additionalinformation to our members. For results of the survey visit our website at www.sjboardoftrade.com.

The HonourableJack Keir, Minister

of Energy addressesSaint John Board ofTrade members at

our breakfast inearly November

regarding theProposed Sale of

NB Power.

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As the Holiday Season tends to go hand

in hand with the flu season, here are some

tips that will help you enjoy the festivities

this Holiday Season!

1) If you feel ill, stay home. Yourcolleagues will appreciate it and you

dont want to pass your illness along

to others at such a busy time of year.

2) Network!! These events are not

opportunities to talk shop, but are

opportunities to make connections with

colleagues and potential clients.

3) Spread the Holiday Cheer, not Germs!

Greetings are a big part of the Holidays.

Shaking hands is fine, but you can

politely decline by acknowledging the

flu season.4) Wash your hands. Whether shaking

hands or eating appetizers, you use

your hands a lot at holiday events.

Make sure theyre clean and germ-free.

5) Mind your manners. To prevent

accidentally sharing food, cutlery or

dishes remember basic etiquette such

as:a. Know which bread plate and water

glass are yours (solids on the left,

liquids on the right);

b. Keep your glass with you. If you

set it down and are unsure which

glass is yours, err on the side of

caution and get a new drink.

6) Consume alcohol conservatively.

Alcohol can impair your immune

system as well as your judgement.

Some basic rules of thumb can not only

ensure that you make a good impression,but can help protect you from catching

the flu, ensuring not only a happy, but

healthy Holiday!

Member Profile Robertson Surrette

Robertson Surrette and

Knightsbridge Human Capital

Solutions Announce Strategic

Alliance Partnership to provide

integrated, holistic solutions toAtlantic Canada's human capital

challenges.

Atlantic Canada's largest human

resources consulting firm,

Robertson Surrette, has formed a

strategic alliance with

Knightsbridge, Canada's leading

integrated human capital solutions

provider. As a result, Robertson

Surrette has withdrawn from all

preexisting national partnerships

and will be known as KnightsbridgeRobertson Surrette.

"This alliance is all about better

service for our clients in industry

and in the public sector. Over the

past two years, our clients have

made it clear that they are looking

for a more integrated approach, and

innovative solutions, to their

complex human capital challenges,"

said Mark Surrette, President,

Knightsbridge Robertson Surrette.

"Inspired by these conversations,

we approached Knightsbridge to

discuss the potential for a

partnership that would meet the

changing needs of Atlantic Canada's

organizations. We were pleased to

find that Knightsbridge's vision,

passion, and commitment to client

service closely matched our own."

Knightsbridge Robertson Surrette

will provide the broadest range of

recruitment, career transition and

human capital advisory services

available in Atlantic Canada. It will

also draw on the knowledge and

resources of Knightsbridge offices

across Canada, and the strength of

premier international partnerships

with Lee Hecht Harrison for career

transition services and the Amrop

Hever global network for executive

search.

Making the Most of the

Holiday Season Festivities


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Wave Innovative Video Solutions Labatt Morrison Marketing TD Cana da Trust

Deloitte Hilton Saint John Lancaster Florists Saint John Port Authority Scotiabank Thandis

AVW-Telav Enterprise Saint John

Saint John Energy Shred Guard Telegraph-Journal TriStar Mercedes-Benz

CongratulationsFundy Region Solid Waste Commission The DPL Group Opera Bistro

amie Galbraith Key Industries Gerry Pond

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to Our Sponsors

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Business ExcellenceAward

EntrepreneurialAchievement Award

Emerging EnterpriseAward

Young Entrepreneur Big Heart Award Chairs Award

25thAnnualAwardsOutstanding Business Achievement

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