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Bud Kanke: Meal ticket

Bud Kanke: Meal ticket

Longtime restaurateur Bud Kanke has operated 11 restaurants in 41 years but none as long as the 27-year-old Joe Fortes in downtown Vancouver

Samsung’s new Galaxy Note: too large, too small or just right?

People are increasingly using mobile devices for web browsing, email, social networking, watching videos, reading books, playing games and even – now and again – as work tools. Maybe even for a phone call or two.

Where the wealthy are finding income

A decade ago, when an investor was looking for income, the solution was a “ladder” of government bonds. By spreading your money among bonds of various durations (typically one-tenth portions of one- to 10-year bonds), you could minimize interest rate risk. Each year, when 10% of the portfolio matured, you’d simply buy new 10-year bonds and continue on.

Immigration overhaul a wrong-headed job-market fix

Jason Kenney’s crusade to bring “transformational change” to Canada’s immigration system is beginning to look more like the virtual elimination of the system as we know it.

Agents seek corporate action for elite athletes; Canadian Soccer Association finances revealed

The logo for their North Vancouver sports agency is a red maple leaf in a stylized aboriginal dream catcher. But the mother/daughter duo of Connie and Annalise deBoer also want to be dream launchers.

Star power: How to tackle first things first on your company’s strategic objectives list

When you start working on the action plans for your strategic objectives for the year, one of the most important steps is to understand the order of priority of your objectives.

Business leadership on climate change needed

The more threatening facts are, the less we want to believe them. This is a human trait that even pre-dates the travails of Galileo Galieli, the 17th century “Father of Modern Science.”
Brian Carter: Marine core

Brian Carter: Marine core

Seaspan Shipyards president Brian Carter has a lot of heavy lifting ahead of him as he prepares the North Vancouver company for an $8 billion federal government shipbuilding contract

Seller’s market for private companies offers wealth of investment opportunities

In today’s economy, public stock markets might be suffering, but it’s a seller’s market for private company transactions.
Canadian real estate investors hoping Hawaiian rental bills dead; Home sales outside Metro Vancouver outpacing Lower Mainland

Canadian real estate investors hoping Hawaiian rental bills dead; Home sales outside Metro Vancouver outpacing Lower Mainland

First, the good news: Hawaiian lawmakers in the state house and senate have deferred consideration of two bills that would have distinguished between resident and non-resident property owners renting apartments in the state. Non-resident owners would have been required to employ third-party management, at a cost of 25% to 45% under existing options.