Dartmouth, N.S. – Several years ago, Dr. Cliff Arnall, a specialist in seasonal disorders, developed a formula to calculate the saddest day of the year. Using several factors including dreary weather, holiday debt and broken New Year’s resolutions, he determined that the third Monday of January was the “saddest” day of the year.

Dartmouth, N.S. — In the last year, Canadian companies have been using the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) new Engage Grants in increasing numbers to connect with university researchers and solve short-term research and development (R&D) challenges. Suzanne Fortier, President of NSERC, marked the 1,000th Engage Grant today with Dalhousie University and Survival Systems Training Ltd—a Nova Scotia training company.

HALIFAX, N.S. -- LED Roadway Lighting Ltd. (LRL) announced today that it has acquired the intellectual property and certain other assets of Streetlight Intelligence Inc. (SLQ) of Victoria, British Columbia. With this acquisition, LRL has become the first company in Canada to combine energy-efficient HPS and LED street lighting with smart wireless technology.

Halifax, N.S. – Travellers and visitors to Halifax Stanfield International Airport can now travel back in time to the 1950’s. Halifax International Airport Authority (HIAA) today announced that The Chickenburger restaurant – an iconic fifties-style diner – is now open.

Moncton, N.B., – Today at their annual general meeting, propel ICT, a nonprofit organization focused on mentoring early stage technology start-up founders, announced Launch36 an ambitious campaign to launch 36 new technology companies in New Brunswick over the next three years.

Propel ICT, originally known as propelsj, had launched a similar campaign which resulted in 20 new companies including Radian6, Mariner Partners, Brovada and Ambir, where over 210 new full time jobs were created in the Saint John region from 2006-2008

 MONCTON N.B., – A delegation of 20 companies and organizations from the supply and services sector of Atlantic Canada’s offshore technologies industry is heading home from a successful business mission to the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Brasil, held October 4-6, 2011, in Rio de Janeiro.

Saint John, N.B. – ClinicServer, a division of IBL- Internet Business Logic Inc., has joined forces with the U.K.’s Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) in an agreement that provides the CSP’s more than 50,000 members with access to the Community Edition of ClinicServer FLEX®, the company’s leading- edge, Cloud-based Clinic Management Software.

MONCTON, N.B., – A delegation of ten Atlantic Canadian companies from the ocean technology industry wrapped up a successful business mission to the annual Oceans 2011 MTS/IEEE conference and trade show.

FREDERICTON, N.B.,— The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) today reported an investment return of $9.25 million from the sale of its stake in Radian6 Technologies. NBIF exited the Fredericton, New Brunswick-based social media monitoring company in May 2011 after its acquisition by Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM).