SAINT JOHN – When Allie Beckwith took her first really good photograph, she cried.

“It was of a rose and a wine bottle with a Christmas tree in the background and the background was bokeh. I’ve never done that before,” says Beckwith. “I didn’t realize I was doing it until I looked at it. I was like ‘Mom look!’ and I started crying.”

Canada is in the midst of a worker shortage.

But it’s not because there aren’t enough people. It’s because there aren’t enough people who can do this kind of work.

It’s no secret that the technology and ICT sectors are rapidly growing. According toICTC, growth in digital jobs in Canada has outpaced growth in the overall economy in the last two years by a ratio of more than four to one, with the ICT sector alone employing around 655,000 right now.

It’s a dream for many entrepreneurs – launch a company, build it and then sell it for a handsome profit. But what happens when that dream comes true? Is there life after acquisition?

There is if you’re Dan Martell.

EDMUNDSTON­ – Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick (CCNB) is helping microbreweries across the Maritimes and New England make better beer.

For the past four years, CCNB’s Biorefinery Technology Scale-Up Centre has been using its beverage lab to help boost the region’s craft beer scene.

FREDERICTON – Andrea Feunekes was part of the New Brunswick startup scene before “startup scenes” were even a thing.

She may be, as the kids say, an OG.