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Canadian families looking for flexibility in tax and estate planning often set up trusts, but they can also benefit small-businesses owners.

Increasingly, the red-hot smartphone market seems focused on the competition between Apple – with speculation of an iPhone 5 launch this fall – and Google’s Android – with new contenders arriving more or less monthly from Samsung, HTC, Motorola and others.

It’s been a habit of mine to do a financial checkup in the first few weeks of fall. I think of it as a sort of a “getting back to business” review of the portfolio and other financial issues after a summer of fun and sun. Maybe it’s a throwback to my school days, which was more years ago than I care to admit!

Laneway housing seems too good to be true. It’s a form of detached housing that can be built almost anywhere in Vancouver for as little as $140,000 (ready to move in, everything included) – half the price of an equivalent condo. For that you can get a 400-square-foot living space with a parking spot and a shared yard. Larger – up to 1,000 square feet – units are more popular, costing as much as $330,000.

A 1997 McKinsey and Company survey coined the phrase “the war for talent.” It forecast a two-decade demographically fuelled net reduction in talent in the workforce due to baby boomers retiring.

Twentyten Group founder Andrea Shaw has overcome a host of business and personal challenges to keep the 2010 Games spirit alive in Gastown

Retro hotels

Metro Vancouver municipalities are headed into uncharted waters in December as the contracts for more than 10,000 unionized employees expire.

There are comeback stories in sports and in the business of sports.

One of the most vexing issues facing new companies or product developers is whether to protect their brands with trademark registration.