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EARLY LAST WEEK, Elizabeth Cowan called her client. 'You're rich,' she told him. 'And now you can be famous.' She'd sold his house for him in July and she wanted [...]

FOR THE FIRST TIME in his life, Buzz Hargrove didn't buy a new car last year after trading in his '99 Chrysler LHS. Instead, he got himself a Jeep, a [...]

THE KNIFE GLISTENS menacingly. New blood pools along the edge of its long blade. A man wearing a mask clasps the knife tightly, his fist held high and knuckles white, [...]

HERE'S A RIDDLE: If the worth of your home is rising, but the value of your retirement nest egg is dropping, do you go ahead with those big renovations? Well, [...]

WARREN HURST is a little stooped in the shoulder now. He speaks softly and carefully and sometimes with cunning. For almost 20 years, he's been embroiled in an epic battle [...]

A strange paradox has hit the headhunting business or, as headhunters prefer to call it, executive search. It's become much easier than a couple of years ago to find good [...]

SHAREHOLDER VALUE: the words themselves exude goodness. Even though the expression refers to straightforward financial gain -- through the dedication of managers and directors to increasing their company's share price [...]

Wendy Mathewson sits with perfect posture on the edge of her seat, one foot tucked under her chair, the other square to the floor. She is a flautist with the [...]

Barbara Stymiest has always been ambitious. At 30, she was the youngest partner with the accounting firm Ernst & Young. Five years later, in 1993, she was the first woman [...]

In preparation for a meeting of the board on Friday, April 19 -- five days before his surprise resignation shocked Canada's business community -- Jean Monty spoke privately and individually [...]

When Leonard Asper sits down with his morning papers, he doesn't read them just for the news, or to pick up the latest sports scores. Not any more. These days, [...]

Most of the world's religions, great and small, mark the return of spring, the season of renewed life and hope. Jews celebrate Passover, the eight-day commemoration of their freedom from [...]

'Loser.' With a smile curling up on her face, Janet Podleski savours and stretches out the first syllable. She is talking about her sister and business partner, Greta Podleski -- [...]

Every weekday morning, after three hours of live radio, a couple of cigarettes or more -- in the smoking room down the hall, of course -- and some phone calls, [...]

There was a time when David Kuracina clicked into his investment account almost every day to have a look at his mounting riches. Kuracina, an elementary school teacher in Ottawa [...]

Asked how many times he's been laid off, Lyle Olson starts counting out loud. 'One, two, three -- three times. And I've been on job-share another three times,' says the [...]

At a recent family dinner, Dominic D'Alessandro got into a heated discussion with his two sons. They were talking about taxes, and D'Alessandro senior, one of Canada's most prominent business [...]

When Robert Milton took over the reins at Air Canada in 1999, he was heralded as an efficiency whiz-kid. He was 39 and he'd already reorganized the airline's entire schedule, [...]

$17 billion in Canada alone; $2 trillion worldwide. International authorities believe these vast sums are laundered annually through banks and businesses, masking ill-gotten gains with the lustre of clean capital. [...]

It's the kind of muscle that only the most powerful nation on earth can flex. Preparing to strike back at the perpetrators of the devastating terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, [...]

Five days after the horrifying terrorist attacks on the United States, Sherry Lee Gregory and a friend travelled home to Halifax from Athens. They spent twice as much time on [...]

Tim O'Neill was attending a conference in the ballroom of the Marriott World Trade Center Hotel, which sits adjacent to the twin towers, when the first plane hit the north [...]

Denise Donlon looks to the floor beside her upholstered pale grey armchair, searching for something. She, too, is wearing grey, a lightweight suit in a darker tone with a white [...]

With his first paycheque from Algoma Steel Corp. Ltd., Tom Bonell of Sault Ste. Marie bought a '62 Chevy Biscayne for $150. Nineteen years old, just out of high school, [...]

For one day last week, movie legend Sophia Loren was caught smiling her dazzling smile from street corners across Toronto. She was in town to start work on her 88th [...]

John McKay flew to Toronto from Calgary recently on the much-heralded - - and then summarily grounded -- Roots Air. Service was terrific -- 'they were trying to impress' -- [...]

Grace at the Canadian Club of Toronto luncheon is usually a straightforward, let's-count-our-blessings kind of prayer. It doesn't normally address current events. But last week, as the elite of Canada's [...]

'I have a concern with some corporations in Canada right now,' James Ryan is saying from the floor of the annual meeting of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board. Ryan, [...]

John Roth has been showing off his bad side. Lashing out at his critics, he comes across as cranky and irritable. Cashing in his $135- million stock-option package, he appears [...]

Five million of the old Canadian dollar bills laid flat, side by side, would carpet seven football fields, end zones included. It's enough to buy 15 comfortable homes in Toronto [...]

At least John Roth had the grace to ditch his planned speech to the Canadian Club -- the one about globalization -- and instead talk about the subject his well-heeled [...]

As Heather Reisman sweeps through the offices of Indigo! Books & Music Inc., she tidies. She closes closet doors left ajar. She straightens a pile of books here and rearranges [...]

He doesn't put his feet up on the table. But with the sole of one shoe firmly on the flat edge of its salmon-coloured travertine surface, David Brown pushes off [...]

To pay for lunch, Robert Harper places his tan-coloured CIBC Aerogold Visa card alongside the bill on the restaurant's black tray. Like many aficionados of the Aerogold Visa, he uses [...]

Inside the Toronto mansion of Heather Reisman and Gerry Schwartz, venue of glittering parties featuring Canada's cultural and political elite, the library is one of the most popular rooms. In [...]

Only brokers would attend a party at that hour. Hundreds of invitations were sent out for 8:30 Tuesday morning for the launch this week of Nasdaq Canada -- opening the [...]

Richard Sorby sweeps his fingers lightly across the top of a cherrywood counter being installed in the new Eatons store in Winnipeg. 'This,' he says, 'isn't laminate.' No, it is [...]

As Ben Cherniavsky was nearing the end of his Vancouver workday on the afternoon of Thursday, Oct. 5, he received a phone call from an Air Canada official in Montreal. [...]

Ted Rogers, the 67-year-old communications tycoon, is clearly feeling under the weather -- a bottle of Buckley's cough syrup on his desk is a dead giveaway, as is his raspy [...]

Over the past year, Jean Monty has been buying up properties and piling them on top of one another much like a winner at a blackjack table stacks his chips [...]

Last month, Eric Tan sold his thriving storefront travel agency in Vancouver's upscale Kerrisdale neighbourhood to set up shop on the second floor of a quiet medical building, away from [...]

When Ted Rogers was a boy, attending exclusive Upper Canada College in Toronto's wealthy Forest Hill neighbourhood, he didn't play baseball. As an infant, he'd lost the sight in one [...]

No doubt about it: George Cope, chief executive of Clearnet Communications Inc., the wireless phone company featuring lizards and leaping frogs in its ads, is a creature of the digital [...]

It was during a conference call with his board of directors last May when Michael Cowpland, the larger-than-life head of Corel Corp., first dropped his bombshell. He was, he said, [...]