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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-...

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How 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...

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Is 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...

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Is 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...

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Rich 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...

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McCain 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...

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WestJet: 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...

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Mighty 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....

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Ask 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...

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Look 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...

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No time to go public: mining IPOs

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Trailing 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...

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Is 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%...

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Energy 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...

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A bad month for gold bugs

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Richard 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...

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An 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...

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Niche 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...

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Cowan: 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...

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Less 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...

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How 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...

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Manitoba 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....

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The 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...

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The 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....

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Why 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:...

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Unwrapped: 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...

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Lunchbox 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...

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Hipster 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,...

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Foodie 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...

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New 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...

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RBC’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...

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Can 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...

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Pop Index: cell dinosaurs & the worst duet ever

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The 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...

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The 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...

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How to give office flowers new life

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Why 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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