Andre Petterson is impatient, at least when it comes to his work. Once a peice is completed, this Vancouver-based artist is happy to say goodbye and never look back. “I have too many ideas and I want to do too many things to paint one painting for a month. It makes me crazy, so…
Concrete and steel are often seen as elements that make up a house’s framework, but architectural designer Fances Zago-Schmitt had another vision, Instead of hiding behind drywall and carpet, she left them uncovered for an industrial-chic look in this West Vancouver home. “Steel becomes a really big feature for me, ” Zago-Schmitt says. “It…
BC Business October, 2012 TV crime dramas have made rock stars of forensic investigators, but once the medical detectives have left the scene, nobody likes to talk about what happens next. Cleaning up after violent crimes is left to a rare breed of specialist, one that in B.C. is subject to very little regulation. continue…
Canadian Business October 5, 2012 Where there’s Robert Friedland, there’s hype, and that might be just what the junior mining sector needs right now. The billionaire promoter’s initial public offering of his African mining venture, Ivanplats Ltd., is being watched… See full article
Embedded at a New Year’s Day levee in Prince Edward Island The Walrus January/February 2013 At 10 A.M. on the first day of the new year, the line of smartly clad participants snakes up the brass-banistered staircase of Charlottetown’s city hall, at eye level with the framed photographic replica of Robert Harris’s 1883 painting The…
BC Business October 2012 The story of Sir Isaac Newton and his apple teaches that inspiration can come from strange places. Such was the case for one Sunshine Coast-based small-business owner, whose propensity for heat stroke inspired her creations, which became key props in Victoria’s Secret’s US$12-million fashion show. See full article
BC Business September 2012 More than half of the province’s pine forests have been decimated by beetles and fire, and at least two million hectares of Crown forest need to be restocked. The province doesn’t have the money to do it. Can private investors and innovations in tree planting fill the gap in time to…
Canadian Business December 3, 2012 Victoria businessman David Black has thrown yet another log on the fiery debate over Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline with his proposal to build a $13-billion oil refinery on the province’s northern coast. While the scheme is given little credence in Canada’s oilpatch, the discussion it sparks could be surprisingly…
Financial Times January 25, 2008 The meeting took place outside on a patio in Sri Lanka, in broad daylight. If he liked the merchandise she presented, they would make a deal. The product the two were bartering over was her body. Canadian teenager Cheryl Perera was undercover, playing the role of a child sex worker…
Toronto Star July 25, 2008 Canadian border agents are providing personal information on asylum seekers to officials from the very country these people are fleeing, according to foreign diplomats. Karel Hejc, head of consular and political affairs at the Czech Embassy in Ottawa, says he has received several faxes at the embassy… See full article
Globe and Mail August 4, 2008 Gay and lesbian refugee claimants struggling to shed old-world views of their sexuality are turning to new-age technology to make their case. Facebook, the online social network, is used as a tool by some claimants to help prove their sexual orientation to immigration officials in Canada. See full article
Globe and Mail December 1, 2011 Kids don’t come with instruction manuals, and neither do their financial futures. New parents are faced with a host of monetary issues, and among them is whether to invest in life insurance or other financial instruments. See full article
Globe and Mail March 13, 2012 Several times throughout her busy workday, certified management accountant Jean Kimpton asks herself the question: So what? She’s not being flippant. Ms. Kimpton is simply putting into practice the lessons she learned through the University of Prince Edward Island’s executive MBA program, which integrates… See full article
Globe and Mail May 12, 2012 It’s a safe assumption that no one in the coffee line-up at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University (SFU) has ever met a Peruvian coffee farmer. But earlier this month the worlds of these students and small-scale coffee producers just got a little bit closer. See full article
Toronto Star October 4, 2012 As a theatre major in Ryerson University’s bachelor of fine arts (BFA) program, Laura Lawson, 30, was used to costume changes. But three years ago, the former ballet teacher made an offstage transformation when she traded in her pointe shoes for a white lab coat… See full article
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