HALIFAX – George Christakos’s Halifax restaurant, Brooklyn Warehouse, was recently awarded the Canadian Youth Business Foundation’s (CYBF) 2009 Chairman’s Business Award for Atlantic Canada.

Dubbed one of Halifax’s best new restaurants soon after its 2007 opening, the 40-seat casual fine-dining favourite features award-winning cuisine prepared with fresh local ingredients.

HALIFAX – A trio of siblings from Halifax have won this year’s Young Entrepreneur Award for Nova Scotia. The award was presented Oct. 20, by the Business Development Bank of Canada, to Kim Hong Dao, 27, and her brothers Bang Gia Dao, 31, and Niem Gia Dao, 26, owners of Talay Thai Restaurant in Halifax.   

When the three siblings, who came to Canada from Vietnam as children, opened Talay Thai in 2005, they never expected to see crowds lining up daily less than a year later. What’s more, two years later they opened another equally popular establishment.

LAKEVILLE, P.E.I. – Potato farmers on the Island are living on a prayer as wet weather attracts seagulls and ducks to swim in new ponds that have formed in the fields, instead of the farmers themselves to harvest the crop.

So far October has been a wet month that continues to hamper the province’s most prized crop, delaying the harvest of about 85,000 acres of spuds by a week to 10 days, reports the P.E.I Guardian. “It’s a mess,’’ Boyd Rose, the chairman of the P.E.I. Potato Board, told the paper. “It’s very hard going and all we can do is hope things get better.”

Many of us have heard that blueberries provide lots of antioxidants, but now a group of scientists are investigating ways to enrich the wild fruit further. A story in P.E.I’s Guardian examines how the berries are being puréed into paste that can be used for juice and other products. The scientists are also determining ways to avoid spraying pesticides on whole crops, while also keeping the plants free from disease and free to grow bigger and better. Click here, to read more.