THE WRAP: Office weed, forests untreed and the Keefe clan convenes over beer

Irish reunion in a glass 

HALIFAX, N.S. — It’s a new beer with a narrative stretching again to the 1830s. That’s when the ancestors of first cousins Ron Keefe (Granite Brewery) and Kevin Murphy (Gahan Brewery) left Eire for Canada. Now the 2 Halifax and PEI beer makers are collaborating on a brand new brew, Keefe’s Irish Crimson. 

Fish farmer Cooke brings residence the bacon 

Central Newfoundlanders have needed to scramble this week as a raging forest fireplace closed the Trans-Canada freeway. All the pieces from turkeys and bacon to Tide pods and bathroom paper has been flown in by helicopter or carried there by Cooke Aquaculture vessels taken off common obligation. The corporate was additionally within the information for shopping for Belgian meals processor Morubel N.V. to increase its presence in Europe. 

“I might cry”: Woodsman Sexton’s seen nothing like NL fireplace 

Some time again, Newfoundland lumber yard house owners Kevin and Susan Sexton have been handing out $2 million in pandemic bonuses to employees. Now they’re questioning whether or not the fireplace consuming the forest they depend on will destroy a few of their tools together with the animals and bushes. 

Mixing oil and wind at Argentia 

It’s residence to an enormous, half-built concrete construction made to take a seat atop a subsea oil nicely. Not very inexperienced. However the port of Argentia will probably be quickly be warehousing the large legs that help wind generators. 

Meet the Previous O’s new house owners 

Endurance Equities’ Pat Lipton and Matt Stokes and Nova Scotia Spirit Firm’s Alex Rice will probably be spending $13 million to improve the Previous Orchard Inn. They’ve simply purchased the landmark lodge and conference centre, owned by the Wallace household since 1972. 

Bubble tea in, Jamaican Vibes out 

Halifax ReTales blogger and columnist Arthur Gaudreau tracks openings and closings within the retail and resto commerce. He’s pleased to report extra of the previous and fewer of the latter these days. Click on right here to verify on comings and goings. 

Anstey’s labour of affection 

Reg Anstey by no means might get the hold of retirement. That’s how SaltWire author Barb Dean-Simmons described the very long time labour chief and fish harvesters rep who handed this week at 76. Premier Andrew Furey stated, merely, “he will probably be missed.

PERSPECTIVES 

MILLS: Is preserving employees pleased a full-time job? 

Ex-pollster, nonetheless enterprise proprietor Don Mills sees some hope amid issues in regards to the rising employee scarcity. It comes from the rise in immigration and workforce participation by Indigenous individuals and others historically under-represented but additionally in employers pondering extra about how employees really feel. 

LEVITT: Hashish within the office regulation nonetheless a giant, hazy mess 

Lawyer and Monetary Submit columnist Howard Levitt says you may’t put individuals in danger by working whereas excessive, however past that the smoke hasn’t cleared on problems with hashish use and the office. 

That’s The Wrap. Till subsequent week, when Tim Arsenault will probably be subbing in as I strive Fuzzy’s Fries and a brew on the Crimson Shoe on the in-laws’ tour of Cape Breton.