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Ideal Life Experience Ltd. recognized as Best Boutique Financial Advisory for 2018
News release Wealth and Finance International recognized a Calgary firm, Ideal Life Experience Ltd. as Best Boutique Financial Advisory for 2018. Earlier this year, Ideal Life Experience Ltd. was nominated by KPMG for People’s Choice Award & ATB Small Business of the Year Award! “I’m very humbled by the attention,” said Dean Kendall, CEO, “I…
Natural resource activity was $243.5 billion in the second quarter, which accounted for 11.7% of Canada's GDP
Natural resources are a key component of the overall Canadian economy and when that sector is heading in a positive direction you know it’s good news for the country. Statistics Canada revealed Wednesday that Real GDP, or the volume of economic activity from natural resources, rose 1.8 per cent in the second quarter of this…
The abrupt cancellation of Ontario's basic income project has broad impact on international research, as well as devastating participants
I recently participated in a panel in Finland with representatives of basic income experiments from Finland, the Netherlands, India and Scotland. My report on the cancellation of Ontario’s Basic Income Pilot project was received with stunned disbelief. On July 31, three months after enrolment was complete and before the first annual follow-up survey could be…
The federal government must act quickly on 3 fronts if it is to head off economic disaster
With the resumption of Parliament, Canada’s policy-makers face a turbulence. The United States and China are waging an economic Cold War armed with tariffs. And Ottawa continues negotiating with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump over the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), with an American deadline looming on Sept. 30. Alongside all this,…
Karl-Maria Kertbeny had much to say about sexual orientation and his views helped shape modern convention, for better or worse
It would be hard to think of a period in human history where social attitudes have changed at the dizzying speed of today. In the past few decades, traditional sexual mores have been severely eroded, long-established concepts of marriage declared to be bigoted, basic concepts of male and female repudiated, and gender identities fragmented into…
The Eden-like public square was swiftly overrun by a cacophonic rabble dedicated to crushing ideas to which they’re opposed
The Internet may very well be the innovation that liberated access to ideas, but the social media it spawned is swiftly evolving into the jackboot that suppresses them. To put what’s happening today to an increasing number of editors into perspective – Ian Buruma of the New York Review of Books is just the latest…
How marijuana use is reflected in attendance, participation, dropout and failure rates could make a persuasive story
With the exception of those people who smoke marijuana for medical purposes, I haven’t met many people who were improved by smoking up. In my experience with marijuana – and I admit my experience is limited to the second-hand variety – the stereotype of the bored and boring toker rings true. I’m among the few…
Dean Janet Segato talks about how being a global leader in applied education pays dividends for students
Janet Segato is dean of the School of Business at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. Calgary’s Business: What’s new for the School of Business this year? Segato: It’s going to be an exciting year at SAIT as our momentum continues. The work we’re doing at the SAIT School of Business has a singular focus…
University of Lethbridge team to examine impact on inflammation, as well as study potential anti-cancer properties
Alberta-based Sundial Growers has received a research grant to study and genetically map more than 100 cannabis cultivars. The company announced on Tuesday that Sundial is contributing $247,500 to the research and that is being matched by a grant from the federal government’s Mitacs Accelerate Program. University of Lethbridge professors Drs. Igor Kovalchuk and Olga…
But CMHC warns that tapping into your home equity can lead to greater indebtedness and wealth erosion
About one in three home equity lines of credit (HELOC) are untapped in Canada and balances are significantly below the maximum available borrowing limit, according to a report released on Tuesday by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. CMHC said more than three-quarters of household debt is backed by real estate. It cited data from Equifax…