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How development can help improve local farmland productivity

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.
Life Lessons: Eric Pateman

Life Lessons: Eric Pateman

Partnerships are not all about you

Finding a Wild Thyme on Saturna Island

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

Closing the “behaviour gap”: How to prevent simple mistakes from derailing your portfolio

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.

The hiring gambit: Tips on securing the best sales candidate for your company

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

Free trade zone snub casts doubt over China’s liberalized economy aspirations

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
Life Lessons: Ryan Liebe

Life Lessons: Ryan Liebe

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

Greg Blake: Cheese whiz

Daiya Foods CEO has built his Vancouver-based company into one of North America's top makers of non-dairy cheese products
How I did it: Arjan Stephens

How I did it: Arjan Stephens

Making granola better, one chocolate chunk at a time: how Nature's Path fixed a manufacturing problem to help boost sales of a new premium product
Rural history preserved in Bose Farms development; housing affordability spread varies by municipality

Rural history preserved in Bose Farms development; housing affordability spread varies by municipality

Barn raising