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Star power and cultural business plans

I had an idea last year. (One.) It’s our Stratford Shakespearian Festival’s 60th anniversary. Why not stage famed British director Tyrone Guthrie’s first play there, Richard III – which starred the great Alex Guinness – recreating the fabled designs of Tanya Moiseiwitsch? And promote the Guthrie 60th like hell – posters, nostalgia about the festival’s birth?
Dave Cobb: Pattison's Acquisition Man

Dave Cobb: Pattison's Acquisition Man

He has held some of the most sought-after executive positions in the province with the Vancouver Canucks, VANOC and BC Hydro – now Dave Cobb is working alongside B.C.'s best known entrepreneur at The Jim Pattison Group

A tech incubator that’s incubating real growth and economic benefits

I have never believed in incubators.
How I did it: Jake Kerr

How I did it: Jake Kerr

In 2007, Lignum Forest Products founder Jake Kerr decided to combine his business acumen and love of baseball to buy the Vancouver Canadians . The team went on to win the Northwest League championship in 2011.

Negotiation, not legislation, key to closing public-private pay gap

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is right: the growing gap between compensation for public sector jobs and equivalent private sector jobs has to be brought under control.

Transit traction stalled in new funding quagmire

Sad times for TransLink: it’s getting beaten up pretty bad, and it’s starting to show.
Oxford Properties puts four Vancouver sites on the market; Surrey’s population growth second only to Brampton, Ontario

Oxford Properties puts four Vancouver sites on the market; Surrey’s population growth second only to Brampton, Ontario

Oxford Properties Group has put a national portfolio of data centres on the block.

Avoiding the ugly email: Five steps to a simple business brand and communications makeover

Why advertise for Google or Hotmail when you can advertise your own company each time you send an email?
Life Lessons: Devon Brooks

Life Lessons: Devon Brooks

In life's hardest moments, focus on what will keep you going

How social media fails marketing – and three ways to make it work

Today's web marketplace is full of noise. Three hundred million Twitter updates, three billion YouTube views and millions of new blog posts are posted each day.