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Helmet laws doing more harm than good for city cycling

With Bike to Work week upon us (May 28-June 2), we’re only weeks away from Velo-City (June 26-29), an international conference at the Sheraton Wall Centre on best practices of cycling-friendly cities.

Focusing on past corporate success to build future success

An enormous amount of time and energy gets devoted to solving problems within organizations, all under the pretence that solving those problems is the best way to achieve success, superiority, a competitive advantage and greatness.
Ron Thiessen: Hunter gatherer

Ron Thiessen: Hunter gatherer

Ron Thiessen has helped build Hunter Dickinson into one of the largest privately held mining companies in the world

How to really reinvent your business

Business transformation is an often-quoted phrase, but the meaning isn’t always clear.
Canucks buy in the U.S.; China buys in Australia

Canucks buy in the U.S.; China buys in Australia

Sunbelt shines
Life Lessons: Milun Tesovic

Life Lessons: Milun Tesovic

Surround yourself with the right people

Building big business for the long term rather than the fast buck

In the interests of a healthy head office local economy, we should be cheering on those, like Pattison, who have the wherewithal to keep growing rather than selling

Caps keep expensive BC Place lid closed; Heat get lukewarm response in playoff run, but Hastings rides winning jockey

It was a perfect ending to an imperfect afternoon at BC Place Stadium when the Vancouver Whitecaps' $900,000-a-year star striker Eric Hassli scored an injury time, game-winning goal on May 5. The Caps beat the San Jose Earthquakes 2-1, the reverse of the score when the cities' North American Soccer League predecessors met exactly 38 years earlier. Back then it was outdoors in Empire Stadium.
Brian Canfield: Telephone operator

Brian Canfield: Telephone operator

The chairman of Telus started out as an equipment installer on his long road to helping build B.C.'s biggest public company

Better data needed on how equity gains, intergenerational transfers and foreign investors affect our housing market

“Land prices are high … higher than anything would warrant … [Workers] cannot afford to pay at the rate demanded for these tiny outside lots. The same thing was said here 20 years ago… repeated 10 years ago and five years ago, and our children and our children’s children will hear the same tale … decades hence.”