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Cannabis prohibition costly and counterproductive

At the same time as four former Vancouver mayors and our current mayor have added their voices to the chorus at Stop the Violence BC calling for regulation of the marijuana trade to reduce gang violence, the Harper government is going in the opposite direction.
Sue Griffin : Hall monitor

Sue Griffin : Hall monitor

Sue Griffin, CEO for the BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, is focused on preserving and promoting the province’s sports history as the career for the risk-taking fundraiser comes full-circle at BC Place

A fond farewell to B.C. sports business builder Herb Capozzi; Tom Gaglardi finally lands an NHL team; Luongo flogs poker

This column wasn?t going to have so much Italian-Canadian content until ?tre stelle? (three stars) aligned November 21.

Beware the growing flood of personal computing devices into the workplace

Many party invitations ask you to BYOB (bring your own bottle). Increasingly, employees in organizations large and small are insisting on their right to BYOD – to be able to bring (and use) their own devices at work.

NPA falls on its own sword of tired tactics

It has been said that parties at the provincial and federal level are a necessary evil, but at the municipal level, they are necessarily evil.

Marketers need to know what women really want

Like many Lower Mainlanders, I found myself recently in a panic to buy snow tires.

West Coast companies can’t afford to fiddle while Rome burns

Italy?s recent push to pass an austerity package is the latest indication that the European economy is increasingly unstable.

B.C.’s residential market was buoyant in 2011, but real estate projected to fight headwinds in 2012

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John Carson : Power points

Alterra Power CEO John Carson, leader of B.C.'s largest independent electricity producer, discusses “pricey” contracts, Euro-zone crises and the challenges of financing renewable-energy projects

Book provides fresh insights into root causes of market meltdown

Just after Lehman Bros. collapsed back in 2008, and as mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac declined into a financial morass, U.S. congressmen Barney Frank, the U.S. representative for Massachusetts?s 4th congressional district, was omnipresent as a regular fixture on the nightly news. Frank, then chairman of the powerful House Financial Services Committee, was constant in his blame of greed and Wall Street for the collapse in the American financial and housing sectors.