The Easy Sell: Coffee maker
Photograph by Liam Mogan Somewhere there is a graveyard of unloved office coffee-brewing equipment. Your old Black & Decker is there. One day those clever K-cups will join it, as they are out-...
View ArticleHow not to prepare for the New World Order
One of the most interesting slow-burn business stories of the past two weeks has been the big brouhaha over tariffs. When Finance Minister Jim Flaherty presented Canada’s new budget in late March, he...
View ArticleIs greener oil the ticket to Keystone XL?
(Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP) Alberta Premier Alison Redford landed in Washington, D.C., April 8 amid headlines telling of “Alberta’s bold 40/40” action plan on industrial emissions. Almost immediately, she...
View ArticleIs there really a national skills shortage? The evidence is thin
(Photo: Norm Betts/Bloomberg/Getty) Nearly five years after the recession, the country’s unemployment rate sits above its pre-downturn level, at 7.2%. One theory to explain this is that the country is...
View ArticleRich and uncreditworthy
Zillidy founder Steven Uster (Photo: Jennifer Roberts) For Steven Uster, pawning does not happen in rundown buildings with flickering fluorescent signs. It happens on a website where most of his...
View ArticleMcCain Foods: An old favourite freshens up
Home Canadian Brands Ranking Top Brands Ranking Brands we love (or not) What could be more down-to-earth than a family from New Brunswick descended from potato farmers? Not much, apparently. McCain...
View ArticleWestJet: Friendly skies and then some
Home Canadian Brands Ranking Top Brands Ranking Brands we love (or not) A bride and groom fly to a foreign city to be married—only to find her wedding dress has gone missing. The baggage handlers...
View ArticleMighty mouse
Home Canadian Brands Ranking Top Brands Ranking Brands we love (or not) The Walt Disney Co. was built on the back of a certain mouse and the Magic Kingdom, but its future success depends on much more....
View ArticleAsk McArdle: Will taking stress leave hurt my career?
Will taking stress leave hurt my career? For years, I awakened with trepidation about the coming day, with pain in my head and knots in my gut. But I never did anything about my worries except shrug...
View ArticleLook to emerging markets like Nigeria and Vietnam for long-term buys
(Photo: Justin Mott/Bloomberg/Getty) Finding high-quality, undervalued companies is getting increasingly difficult. As mainstream markets continue to climb, so do their price-to-earnings ratios. Over...
View ArticleNo time to go public: mining IPOs
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View ArticleTrailing Indicator: Tax Havens
It’s tax time, and who hasn’t been tempted to tuck some cash away in a secret offshore account? But since the recession, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has led a crackdown...
View ArticleIs it time to sell your gold?
On Monday, April 15, investors watched in horror as gold saw its largest one-day plunge in 30 years. Between the opening the previous Friday and Tuesday morning, the yellow metal’s price dropped 12.5%...
View ArticleEnergy East is good for Canada, not the oilsands
The Irving Oil refinery in St. John, Canada’s largest, would benefit from cheaper feedstock (Photo: Larry MacDougal/Canadian Press) Western Canada’s landlocked oil industry desperately needs additional...
View ArticleA bad month for gold bugs
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View ArticleRichard Branson: A bad reputation is bad business
(Photo: Martin Barraud/Getty Images) What’s your most valuable possession? When people ask me that, they often expect me to name some expensive artifact. However, my most valuable possession is also my...
View ArticleAn ode to LucasArts: Star Wars was its biggest asset—and its biggest liability
It was 1982—not long after we learned the true identity of Luke Skywalker’s father—when George Lucas first decided to get into the video game business. LucasArts, then called Lucasfilm Games, began by...
View ArticleNiche economy: eat your own placenta
The idea: Pure Birth Services, owned by Calgary mom Susan Stewart, will turn your own placenta into pills or tinctures for your own consumption. The practice of eating one’s afterbirth, espoused by...
View ArticleCowan: Real talk about real estate
Don Denton/CP My family and I are thinking about buying a new house. The idea is closer to “strong notion” than “airtight plan” on the thinking-about-stuff spectrum, but we’ve looked at a few listed...
View ArticleLess drug, more Shoppers
If the Canadian pharmaceuticals market was a high school, Domenic Pilla and Frank Scorpiniti would be the heads of rival cliques. As the CEOs of Shoppers Drug Mart and Rexall, they control the two...
View ArticleHow to talk to your tailor
(Raina + Wilson) In my mid-20s, following a series of fortunate events, I found myself in the position of being treated to a very fine bespoke suit. It was, I knew, a rare opportunity to own the kind...
View ArticleManitoba Hydro takes on 28 million new African customers
(Photo: Jean Claude Moschetti/REA/Redux) As Manitoba Hydro battles power outages caused by melting spring snow in Canada, overseas the Crown corporation is becoming one of Africa’s key power players....
View ArticleThe biofuel boom that never was
(Photo: Roelof Bos/Getty Images) Seven years ago, Alberta’s agricultural heartland eagerly awaited the birth of a new industry. Huge investments were announced for biofuel plants for Vegreville, Rimbey...
View ArticleThe Sequel Strikes Back
The old adage is “familiarity breeds contempt,” but when it comes to Hollywood, the opposite has been true. Sequels, prequels, reboots and related films have become studios’ most bankable assets....
View ArticleWhy the next Xbox will be the everything-box and the only one you’ll need:...
When, after a great deal of hype, Sony executives recently stepped onstage to introduce the next generation of their flagship consumer product, the Playstation 4, one thing was conspicuously absent:...
View ArticleUnwrapped: The Kobo Aura HD e-reader
As tablets continually do more, and do it faster, you might think the humble e-reader is headed the way of the Walkman. Not necessarily. The new Kobo Aura HD is embracing its relative simplicity—an...
View ArticleLunchbox Challenge: Leftover stew from chef Alex Molitz and the Farmhouse Tavern
Photograph by Eugen Sakhnenko Sandwich Highlights: Finished with a pat of Stirling Creamery butter and a glug of Henry of Pelham Baco Noir 2010 Bull’s-blood carrots, golden and candy-cane beets, and...
View ArticleHipster Marketing 101: They’ll pay if the product feels personal, says Bruce...
(Photo: Christopher P. Michel/flickr) When a forest reclaims lost ground, poplars are often the first trees to prosper. They grow quickly, hold the soil together so other things can grow around them,...
View ArticleFoodie fascists must die: the gospel of eating local artisinal food
Photographs by Farzin Ghayour; iStock In the spring of 2006, Michael Pollan, a Berkeley professor and longtime journalist, published a magazine story about shooting and eating a wild pig. The piece was...
View ArticleNew research shows women execs really do think differently—that’s why we need...
(Photo: May Truong) Chris Bart was perplexed. He’d studied the growing pile of research highlighting how female board directors boost corporate performance. Some of the effects were measurable—boards...
View ArticleRBC’s other problem: Freddie Mac names embattled bank in LIBOR suit
(Photo: Mario Beauregard/CP) The Royal Bank of Canada has had a tough couple of months, most recently reeling from an out-of-nowhere scandal involving the use of foreign workers to replace some of its...
View ArticleCan an elite cycling stage race help diversify Alberta’s economy?
(Photo: Daniele Badolato/AP) Every Alberta premier for a generation has talked about diversifying the economy to reduce the province’s dependence on oil and gas. The resulting policy actions have had...
View ArticlePop Index: cell dinosaurs & the worst duet ever
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View ArticleThe incredible shrinking mortgage rate
When the Bank of Montreal dropped its key mortgage rate below the 3% threshold in March, Paula Roberts started to get calls from her clients. They wanted to know if they should break their mortgages...
View ArticleThe Feud: Lois Pope vs Paul Pope
The conflict: When a heart attack felled National Enquirer founder Generoso Pope in 1988, his will instructed that the popular weekly tabloid be sold. Roughly half of the US$412.5-million proceeds...
View ArticleHow to give office flowers new life
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View ArticleWhy we won’t succeed unless we bring back the secretary
Don’t tell Christine Lucy secretaries are obsolete. The 25-year-old human-resources veteran at staffing firm Robert Half International remembers the COO who hired an executive assistant right before a...
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