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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-...
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...
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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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