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Bit by Bitcoin

05/04/2014 by the editor 1 Comment

A BoB Short The popular cryptocurrency Bitcoin has landed in Canada, and it may soon be making an appearance in your city. The open-source, digital currency has proven popular since its inception in 2009, with proponents often pointing to the fact that it is decentralized, and therefore not controlled by banks as conventional currencies are. […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: business, Canada, crypto currency, Edmonton, Halifax, money, Montreal, Quebec City, Saskatoon, Toronto, Vancouver

Beer Store madness

04/20/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

A BoB short: Ontario liquor retailer The Beer Store recently released what could be the apogee of their cringe-inducing struggle to maintain their provincial lock on alcohol sales. While the chain is privately owned, almost entirely by foreign companies, an Angus Reid Poll last year showed that only 13 per cent of Ontarians were aware […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: advertising, business, Ontario

Flaherty: An insatiable desire to kill government

04/11/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon I think it’s fair to say that he was a better person at the end of his political career than he was at the beginning. He did reinvent himself from a pit bull to something vaguely resembling a pragmatist. He did become more human. And I’m sorry he died before he could spend […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: business, Canada, Canadian politics, CBC, Jim Flaherty, Radio-Canada, Stephen Harper, Tom Mulcair

Stacked odds topple Stackhouse

03/20/2014 by the editor 1 Comment

By Rod Mickleburgh And so my former colleagues at the Globe and Mail have another big change at the top to mull over in the bars. That is, if newspaper types still go to the bar during these daze of social media, wine and healthy eating . . . John Stackhouse, editor of the Globe […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: British Columbia, business, David Walmsley, Globe and Mail, John Stackhouse, newspapers, Phillip Crawley, Toronto

Pay to play

03/10/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By TJ Dawe Musicians aren’t making money from album sales anymore, people say. They make their money on tour. They’ve been giving their music away themselves since Myspace. CDs are as dead as cassettes. Listen to anything you want on Spotify, Grooveshark, Pandora, YouTube. Bit Torrent it and rip it as you please. It’s damn […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: business, finance, internet, music, online music

Hart Hanson makes his Bones

02/18/2014 by the editor 1 Comment

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten If art can be entertaining, can entertainment be art? Hart Hanson, creator and showrunner of the Fox television series Bones, visited the University of British Columbia recently to discuss his experiences as a nice Canadian boy working in the rough-and-tumble of Hollywood for the past decade. In the course of offering advice […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: business, entertainment, Hollywood, television, writing

Seeing through Lululemon

12/19/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Mark Leiren-Young Chip Wilson, founding Big Lulu of Lululemon, recently resigned after publicly suggesting the fabric on his company’s Luon yoga pants was fraying at the crotch because women can only search for Shiva’s enlightenment if they don’t have Ganesha’s thighs. As a man who started wearing Lululemon a few years ago, I wanted […]

Filed Under: Leiren-Young Tagged With: British Columbia, business, exercise, fashion, recreation, Vancouver, yoga

A Modest Opinion – Amazon: Primed to Kill

12/17/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Nathaniel Moher It’s the holiday season, and I’m sure that, like me, most of you did all your Christmas shopping, or Chanukah shopping, online. It’s just so much easier than leaving the house. (I have a hard enough time leaving my bed. Luckily, Jim Beam ships me crates of the “inspiration juice” monthly.) But, […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: amazon, business, drones

Solidarity whatever

12/10/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Rod Mickleburgh These are strange days, indeed, for public sector unions. Big developments, not always happy ones, are everywhere. Yet the dearth of labour reporters and collective yawns from editors and the public alike have combined to obscure groundbreaking events that would have dominated front pages not so long ago, when unions were considered […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Alison Redford, British Columbia, business, Canada, Christy Clark, Conservatives, labour, Tony Clement, unions

Farewell, Big Jack

12/06/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Rod Mickleburgh I talked with Big Jack Munro a few days before he died in November. It was pretty tough going. The big booming voice that had bellowed from the podiums of hundreds of meetings was down to a whisper. His legendary fire was just about spent. But some things had not changed. His […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: British Columbia, business, Canada, labour, unions

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