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Category: Business in Vancouver

Sochi Games could yield more than rubles for Russia

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Trevor

Appeared in Business in Vancouver – February 25, 2014 Did the Winter Olympics in Sochi give Russia a big bang for the ruble? Close-mouthed time will eventually tell if the stunning US$50 billion investment in the Sochi Games bought enough tourism and worldwide positive PR to justify the cost. Put 10 number crunchers in the…

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Banking on the business of love in B.C.

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Trevor

Appeared in Business in Vancouver – February 11, 2014 Love – hold on, don’t flip that page and go back to the serious stuff of business! Staring at the yo-yo of stock prices. Sweating whether the descending dollar will be good or bad for your sales. Because love is business (especially on Valentine’s Day, honouring…

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Wrangling with investment realities of RRSPs and RRIFs

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Trevor

Appeared in Business in Vancouver – January 28, 2014 It’s RRSP season. The Coles Notes version of what follows is that I’m less decisive than ever about applauding – one-hand clapping – the Registered Retirement Savings Plan. Here’s my own RRSP/RRIF scorecard: 16 equities and equity funds, 10 winners, six losers (Penn West Petroleum, big…

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Objective journalism takes another hit with VBOT protest coverage

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Trevor

Appeared in Business in Vancouver – January 14, 2014 Hello, business persons (I’ll ask other citizens some other time): Do you sometimes get mad at the media? Me too. But in my case the annoyance is as complex as love and as fat with conflict of interest as a Montreal mayor or two. At this…

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Nursing more interprovincial business barriers in Canada

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Trevor

Appeared in Business in Vancouver – January 7, 2014 Poverty is relative. You knew that. In Canada we debate the definition – low-income cut off (LICO), absolute poverty and such. This puts things in perspective. Linda Barrett – not her real name – is a registered nurse and an adventurous Canadian. We met in Ontario…

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Mandela’s legacy: A wise combination of capitalism and common sense

Posted on January 4, 2014 by Trevor

Appeared in Business in Vancouver – December 17, 2013 Nowhere in the tsunami of adulation have I seen acknowledged this about Nelson Mandela’s great accomplishment: he did it allied with capitalism. Also with the church, notably Anglican bishop Desmond Tutu. Not to overlook South Africa’s last white president, F.W. de Klerk. “It,” of course, was…

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Debating the deconstruction of the putative pope of the environment

Posted on January 4, 2014 by Trevor

Appeared in Business in Vancouver – December 3, 2013 There is a distinct meanness attending reports of the aging and disillusionment – the two frequently are chums – of David Suzuki. A smirking triumphalism, as if over annoying, profit-averse environmentalism itself. Like a deathbed conversion, it cheers somebody. The obvious rejoicers include some business people…

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Gratuitous violence, egomania eroding saleability of pro sports in Canada

Posted on January 4, 2014 by Trevor

Appeared in Business in Vancouver – November 19, 2013 Hail, Canadian Football League fans, and the plague take you if you pay a pigskin’s worth of attention to the inferior product south of the border. I leave to double-domed football experts the stats and strategies preceding the Grey Cup game next Sunday, and host city…

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Jellyfish futures ring global ocean industry alarm bells

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Trevor

Appeared in Business in Vancouver – October 22, 2013 Absurd alarmism? Or scarifying prophecy? No, not nuclear Armageddon, overpopulation or even bee extinction. This all-purpose death-dealer is being benignly exhibited (to November 22) to admiring crowds at the Vancouver Aquarium. Jellyfish. Those pretty translucent blobs that the word “jellyfish” conveys? Who’d have thought? Few of…

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Finding a Wild Thyme on Saturna Island

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Trevor

Appeared in Business in Vancouver – October 8, 2013 Big-shot CEOs take jets. Leah Johnson took the bus. Whereby hangs a tale of small-business smarts, creative marketing and success. It’s a narrative about a dear old British double-decker bus nicknamed “Lucy” – converted to a coffee shop-plus. Small business indeed. Well, Starbucks also began with…

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