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 […]
Nobody home
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 […]
Bit by Bitcoin
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. […]
Immersed in the oil sands
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 […]
A Modest Opinion – A Plea for the Wealthy
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 […]
Lang: Indian workers are just better
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 […]
The Indiegogo fix
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 […]
Outsource your Royal Bank account
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 […]
Not so risky business
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 […]
