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YOUR MONEY: Customers have had it with long wait times
Have you ever left a store or restaurant or any lineup, really, in frustration at what you perceive to be poor service?
Client credit information stolen
A former contract cleaner at a north London spa is charged after dozens of client credit card numbers were recorded.
Paper? No way...get yourself a laptop
Take a glance around a typical university lecture hall - heck, even the odd high school classroom - and it's clear that notebooks made out of paper have surrendered to notebooks crafted from computer chips.
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GLAM: Campus crew
Back-to-school and college fashions signal a move away from laid-back summer style and a jump forward into clothes that can sustain the rush of a schedule packed with studies and social events.
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Shopping Features |
11 beat big odds to bag $15M (Aug. 26, 2008)
Susie and Peter Kaiser have more than a few reasons to hoist one after the London bar owners and nine others won $15 million in the Super 7 lottery on Friday night.
Client credit information stolen (Aug. 26, 2008)
A former contract cleaner at a north London spa is charged after dozens of client credit card numbers were recorded.
Backpack basics (Aug. 26, 2008)
As September nears, the big ticket item in my house will be backpacks.
Paper? No way...get yourself a laptop (Aug. 26, 2008)
Take a glance around a typical university lecture hall - heck, even the odd high school classroom - and it's clear that notebooks made out of paper have surrendered to notebooks crafted from computer chips.
Firm marketing research (Aug. 26, 2008)
London boasts a "research row" featuring $330 million in investment and 1,800 researchers that just might hold the key to growing technology businesses in London.
Farmers' campaign hits skies (Aug. 25, 2008)
If you looked to the sky this weekend, there's a good chance you saw it.
Shoppers cautious about cold cuts (Aug. 23, 2008)
Many Londoners are exercising caution as a listeriosis outbreak has left three Canadians dead and sickened 14 others, leading to the recall of 23 packaged meat products.
Grain growers can blame it on the rain (Aug. 23, 2008)
Frequent thunderstorms this summer have put a damper on an otherwise promising year for Ontario grain farmers, says a provincial crop specialist.
$1M facelift for City Centre (Aug. 22, 2008)
The new owners of the City Centre complex are giving the twin towers a $1 million facelift.
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Enterprise/Starting Up |
ENTERPRISE: Restaurant cooks up recipe for success (Aug. 25, 2008)
If the time and energy spent fulfilling a dream are related to the thrill of its fulfilment, then Chris Meloche is the happiest chef in town.
ENTERPRISE: Puck Masters offers fake ice, real training (Aug. 18, 2008)
You have to look twice to be sure, and even then it's not obvious: Is it real ice or a sheet of plastic?
ENTERPRISE: Old-time ice cream trucks melt kids' hearts (Aug. 11, 2008)
This has been a great summer for Carey LeMoine's ego.
STARTING UP: Bookstore offers food for thought (Aug. 11, 2008)
In the market for a new cookbook? Books for Cooks is for you.
ENTERPRISE: For twin sisters, bean business is booming (Jul. 28, 2008)
Everyone knows beans are good in soup. And they're yummy baked with molasses and bacon. Some are even good on salads.
STARTING UP: Old-fashioned fare on the menu at down-home new eatery (Jul. 28, 2008)
Yellow Rose Diner
ENTERPRISE: Making kid athletes collector's items (Jul. 21, 2008)
For the first year or two, Bryan Williams' business looked more like an elementary school project than any kind of real enterprise.
STARTING UP: Friends' entrepreneurial spirit unleashed (Jul. 21, 2008)
The inspiration for Pets Unleashed, the Dorchester-area company owned by Sue and Dean Bedell and neighbours Mary and Frazer Andrews, was their dogs, Otis and Barklee, Sue Bedell says.
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Analyst Insight |
ANALYST INSIGHT: Don't spend retirement watching market index (Jun. 30, 2008)
Investors have access to more information today than at any other point in history, but are they any better off?
WEALTH MANAGER: Value strategies reward patience (Jun. 2, 2008)
Did the meteoric rise of growth stocks in the 1990s dethrone value stocks as lord of the returns?
WEALTH MANAGER: To track smart money, you can go with the flow (May. 5, 2008)
Tracking the smart money on Bay and Wall Street is a worthwhile endeavour for small and large investors.
Basic stock trading rules help avoid common mistakes (Apr. 7, 2008)
I believe successful stock trading is three parts science, two parts art and one-part luck. The science can be learned by studying. The art either comes from within or through experience. And the luck -- well, take it when it happens.
Don't limit strategies to buy-and-hold option (Mar. 24, 2008)
If I am ever called upon to reminisce about the greatest bull market on record, I will probably refer to it as the "age of indoctrination."
Overconfidence drags down investors (Mar. 10, 2008)
The field of finance is premised on two assumptions.
Hold on to cash when probabilities weigh against you (Feb. 18, 2008)
When the probability of losing money is greater than the probability of making money, the best place to be is often in cash. When cash is king, it usually means just about everything else has declined or is still declining.
Be patient, positive to collect stock rewards (Jan. 28, 2008)
The first rule of investing in volatile markets is the same as the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth: don't panic.
Technology Canada's top-performing sector (Jan. 7, 2008)
Canadian stocks finished the year in positive territory, but U.S. and international stocks finished down after adjusting for the extraordinary 17-per-cent appreciation in the Canadian dollar.
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Your Money |
YOUR MONEY: Customers have had it with long wait times (Aug. 27, 2008)
Have you ever left a store or restaurant or any lineup, really, in frustration at what you perceive to be poor service?
Many Canadians anxious about their finances (Aug. 7, 2008)
If you're anxious about your personal finances -- so much so that you don't even want to talk about them -- you're not alone.
Scotiabank's Bank the Rest may be on to something (May. 27, 2008)
A warning flag usually goes up when I hear the phrase "save money while you spend."
Magazine for professional women a global first (May. 23, 2008)
London entrepreneur Brenda Wood is treading where few -- if any -- Canadians have gone before.
Global warming combat formula urged (May. 22, 2008)
Houston . . .'er . . . London, we have a problem.
Sudden storm rips through nursery (May. 21, 2008)
It was a close call Sunday morning at Canadale Nurseries Ltd., in St. Thomas.
Ten tips to save money (May. 14, 2008)
Oil prices shot to new record levels yesterday, near US$127 a barrel mid-afternoon, thanks to a report that Iran is planning to cut its crude oil production.
Canadians go for rich Net content (May. 7, 2008)
That the Internet is ubiquitous is not news.
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Today's Business Law |
Province preparing e-waste program (Aug. 25, 2008)
Ontario Electronic Stewardship (OES) recently received ministerial go-ahead for its Waste Electronic and Electronic Equipment Program Plan (WEEE) under the Waste Diversion Act.
U.S., Europeans disagree on trademark protection (Aug. 18, 2008)
In a decision that has been termed a "crucial victory" and a "knockout decision," a New York District Judge ruled that EBay was not responsible for policing and enforcing trade-mark infringement of goods posted for sale on the website.
Court ruling threatens to reveal YouTube users (Aug. 11, 2008)
An American judge's recent order requiring YouTube to release information to Viacom in a US$1-billion lawsuit had many privacy advocates in an uproar -- and rightly so.
Case clarifies tests for 'fair comment' (Jul. 28, 2008)
A recent Supreme Court of Canada decision concerning a libel suit against a radio host referred to the changing attitudes surrounding public comment and defamation in today's modern and technologically savvy society.
Body of evidence courts embracing technology (Jul. 21, 2008)
The image of lawyers going to court carrying boxes of paper is slowly becoming obsolete. That paper is being replaced by electronic files.
Former employee pays price for fake website (Jul. 14, 2008)
For 16 days in November 2004, customers of Inform Cycle Ltd. were shocked and embarrassed to find unexpected content on what they believed to be Inform Cycle's website.
Hands off LSAT students' fingers (Jul. 7, 2008)
A recent decision by the Privacy Commissioner of Canada found that taking finger/thumb prints from those writing the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is a privacy breach and must be stopped.
Face recognition among tools to guard technology (Jun. 30, 2008)
The Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner's 2007 annual report outlines the efforts undertaken by the IPC in promoting privacy enhancing technologies.
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Fashion |
GLAM: Campus crew (Aug. 26, 2008)
Back-to-school and college fashions signal a move away from laid-back summer style and a jump forward into clothes that can sustain the rush of a schedule packed with studies and social events.
GLAM: De-stress your tresses (Aug. 19, 2008)
That minimalistic approach to hair care that seemed to work so well in June and July can prevent you from looking your best by mid-August.
Fanshawe College Fashion Show (Aug. 15, 2008)
Third-year Fanshawe College fashion students staged their end-of-the-year show called Unbound at Museum London yesterday.
GLAM: Jean therapy (Aug. 12, 2008)
Although the thermometer still runs high, you'll get a leg up on fall by shimmying into a new pair of jeans.
GLAM: Natural goodness (Aug. 5, 2008)
Going organic isn't all about food.
GLAM: Going places (Jul. 29, 2008)
If celebrating the season includes getting out or maybe taking in the Fringe or Rib-Fest this week, you'll want to look your best.
GLAM: Comfort & style (Jul. 22, 2008)
Simple, easy dressing is one of the joys of summer for many women.
Store gazing (Jul. 16, 2008)
Store Gazing is dedicated to taking you beyond the display window with a new look, a tip, idea or trend courtesy of a local retailer to help keep you in the know.
GLAM: Bare essentials (Jul. 15, 2008)
You can run but you can't hide in the latest crop of wear-if-you-dare, string bikinis and cutout monokinis.
GLAM: Brimming with style (Jul. 8, 2008)
Summer hats brimming with style offer shelter from the summer sun and create fashionable forms of self expression.
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