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The Vancouver Foundation's new CEO brings a wealth of experience in the international aid business to Canada's largest community foundation

Office lull

Landing $35 million Olympic Village contract helped his firm to expand and diversify

Agricultural listservs have been buzzing lately with calls to prevent the agricultural land reserve (ALR) from being weakened as part of Minister Bill Bennett's core review. The cursory provincewide public input into the review ends October 16, with southwestern B.C. hearings already done. Bennett has said that everything is on the table and has singled out for attention ALR land "covered by rocks and trees" that is still being protected, preventing other uses that would help the economy.

Partnerships are not all about you

Big-shot CEOs take jets. Leah Johnson took the bus.

When it comes to investing, people (or to be more specific, their behaviour) matter just as much as numbers and analysis. And maybe more so.

Resist the urge to find “a pulse” to fill the role. As painful as it might be, it’s better to run empty than run wrong

A particular fear is that the Shanghai Free Trade Zone could become a highway for flight of capital by China’s rich who have little faith in the survival of the current system

The president of Triton Environmental Consultants discovered the hard way that community spirit is good for you and your career