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PRETEND, FOR A MOMENT, YOU'RE AN ORDInary person. I'm not talking about an 'ordinary' corporate vice-president who pulls down a comfortable income and shoots 18 holes of golf every other [...]

IF THERE WERE SUCH A THING AS an emporium just for logos--a place where the registered trademark had been separated from the thing itself, it would look like the warehouse [...]

HOW'S THIS FOR A GEAC NEWS FLASH? EARLIER in the spring, the Markham, Ont.-based high-tech conglomerate, flush with new executives and a chastened sense of its own destiny, decided not [...]

Glenn Murphy, to coin a phrase, likes to walk softly and carry a big pestle. Since he took the company public last November, the new chairman and CEO of Shoppers [...]

Macquarie Bank Ltd.'s office in Toronto is a nice little beachhead, having grown from zero employees to more than 30 in three years. The Australian firm is a world leader [...]

If you want to see bars, don't come to Rich Gansheimer's prison in the sleepy port town of Conneaut, in the northeastern corner of Ohio. The medium-security Lake Erie Correctional [...]

'IT WAS CHRISTMAS DAY, 1998, AND I'M IN Cancun with my family. The kids are swimming in the pool. I'm trying to drink my third margarita. I get on the [...]

THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO THINK ABOUT the 20-storey office tower O&Y Properties Corp. is scheduled to begin building in downtown Toronto later this fall. The just-the-facts interpretation goes like [...]

All kids want the stuff they see on TV. Good thing for Mastermind that parents do the buying Scene 1: Toys 'R' Us--the Barbie section, midday. Myles Munshaw and his [...]

GAP CERTIFICATES, bellows the e-mail header, popping open to reveal banks of cc'd names, followed by a 'message' from Janelle McCan, founder of The Gap. It's a special-offer -cum-chain-letter. For [...]

IN THE BIG MONEY/BIG TENSION FIRMAMENT SURROUNDING Toronto's 2008 Olympic bid, two events loom large in the countdown to next July's vote by the International Olympic Committee. The first, hoped [...]

Security, like accounting, is one of those no-news-is-good-news businesses. So it seems appropriate that Dennis Hollingshead, co-founder and chairman of Mytec Technologies Inc., is a man who radiates nothing in [...]

Al Palladini's Pine Tree Lincoln Mercury, its huge lot lined with minivans, pickups and sport utility vehicles, is a family business with flair. Located in Woodbridge, a suburb of Toronto, [...]

THE LAKE ERIE STEEL CO. LOOMS AT THE FAR END OF A REMOTE two-lane highway that cuts across the flat farm country southwest of Hamilton, Ont. Located on 2,700 hectares [...]

IN THE SPRING OF 1995, Bay Street hummed with excited talk about a small high-tech firm near Ottawa that seemed to have a bead on one of the hottest computer [...]