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Maureen Enser has been the driving force behind the growth of the Urban Development Institute’s Pacific region during the 28 years she’s been at its helm

After eight years of opening closed doors and making private records public, I?m taking a break.

Going national

Last time, readers of this column learned from search engine optimization expert Jeff Quipp how to boost their business website in Google?s listings (?Better search engine optimization will improve your business? – issue 1149; November 1-7).

Thousands of Detroit Lions fans are using social media to say no to Nickelback for American Thanksgiving, but the Vancouver-based rock radio staple is the Pepsi Max-sponsored halftime entertainment for the Grey Cup on November 27.

If you work in the sustainability field full time, you ride a roller coaster. There are incredible, interesting, hopeful things going on – many rife with opportunity for innovation and new business. At the same time, there?s the grinding reality: a serious challenge that collectively we are not doing nearly enough to fix.

Yes: Government needs to apply tough medicine to an ailing economic system

Penny Green, a single mother with three children, started her boutique securities law firm when she was 26; she now has a staff of 14

Investors looking for opportunities to hedge their bets in volatile markets might consider pipeline and power utility stocks. Although this group of stocks is not particularly exciting, it offers several appealing benefits.

Former provincial cabinet minister Iain Black is banking on his reputation as a fixer to breathe new life into the Vancouver Board of Trade