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This time it’s personal, Leafs

01/22/2015 by the editor

By Jim Henshaw The word Fan derives from fanatic. Because when you are a fan of a particular sports team, a true fan, you live and die with them, relish their victories and endure their defeats. Yes, they often disappoint, even embarrass. But that’s the trade off that comes with the commitment. And in those […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: business, Canada, hockey, money, NHL, sports, Toronto Maple Leafs

Nobody home

10/01/2014 by the editor

  Item: “Nearly a quarter of condos in Vancouver are empty or occupied by non-residents in some dense areas of downtown, a signal that investors play a significant role in the city’s housing market.” Item: “At the summit of luxury, taking advantage of the voluptuous and expanding architecture at the very top floors, we have […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Canada, money, real estate, Vancouver

Bit by Bitcoin

05/04/2014 by the editor

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

Immersed in the oil sands

03/18/2014 by the editor

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten “Fort McMurray, city of excess,” says the voice-over in the trailer for Fort McMoney. The documentary video game, produced by the National Film Board and the Montreal-based game developer TOXA, allows users to take control of the boomtown, and determine the virtual fate of the oilsands. Combining real footage and interviews with […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Alberta, film, Fort McMurray, money, National Film Board, new media, online gaming, online media, tar sands, video games

A Modest Opinion – A Plea for the Wealthy

02/08/2014 by the editor

By Nathaniel Moher A recent study showed that the 85 richest people in the world have as much money as the poorest three billion (which can’t be that much, I mean, those three billion people are poor).  Now, I’m sure most of you are pretty upset to hear that. (I assume you’re all poor too […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: Mitt Romney, money

Lang: Indian workers are just better

04/17/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside “Information technology workers displaced in Canada are being replaced not by cheap Indian workers but by better ones.” So says CBC’s Amanda Lang, senior business correspondent for CBC News and good cop to Kevin O’Leary’s bad cop on “The Lang and O’Leary Exchange,” in yesterday’s Globe and Mail. She wonders if Canadians have returned to […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Amanda Lang, business, Canada, CBC, India, money, Royal Bank of Canada

The Indiegogo fix

04/15/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten One of the biggest stories in the entertainment world in the last month has been the unstoppable support given to the long-ago cancelled television series “Veronica Mars.“ Fans have rallied behind show creator Rob Thomas, not just with enthusiasm, but with dollars to make a feature film version happen. Thomas’s Veronica Mars […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: film, finance, internet, money, television

Outsource your Royal Bank account

04/09/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside Royal Bank of Canada Chief Human Resources Officer Zabeen Hirji explains above that technically it’s not RBC that has hired temporary foreign workers to replace RBC employees. No, rather it’s that RBC has hired Indian offshore outsourcing company iGATE to do their own hiring as part of RBC’s plan to transition RBC IT […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: business, Canada, India, Jason Kenney, money, Royal Bank of Canada

Not so risky business

10/09/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Mark Evans Canadian venture capitalists have a problem: they’re cautious, conservative and have a low tolerance to risk. It’s an easy thesis to accept because, in part, it’s true. It explains why The Globe & Mail published an extensive feature on the challenges facing Canada’s venture capital and startup sectors. The focus of The […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: business, Canada, money, startups, venture capital

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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

By Brady Tighe We’re now officially in the aftermath phase of the northern Alberta wildfire crisis. The fire is long gone, and everyone with a home to return to is back in its … [Read More...]

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Electoral reform: Hashtag fresh thinking

By Alison@Creekside The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, … [Read More...]

Trudeau on quantum computing

The Trudeau gush fest is getting old

By Jim Henshaw There have been several bewildered as well as angry accounts coming out of the USA lately about how little media time has been spent covering the Democratic Presidential Primary … [Read More...]

Rick Meyers in Nanaimo Pride Parade

My friend, Rick, at the Pride Parade

By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

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Triumph of the drama nerds

By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

From “Our Rape Blog”: Shooting the Moon

Originally published on Our Rape Blog, the author's account of the aftermath of a violent sexual assault. By Mary Fraughton Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, … [Read More...]

First Nations defending Lelu Island

The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”

From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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