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Bringing the baseball

Thu, 01 May 2008 19:08:00 -0700

Rescue me

Thu, 01 May 2008 17:11:45 -0700

by Jessica Werb

The calls come at the most inconvenient times. It’s like Murphy’s Law: we’ll be in the middle of a dinner party with a turkey in the oven and the pager will go off.

Andrew Seymour

Thu, 01 May 2008 17:06:07 -0700

by Peter Severinson

Leaving the U.S. was no small step. But Toronto native Andrew Seymour arguably landed a pretty sweet job when he took the GM duties off the plate of Canadians president Andy Dunn in January: the Canadians have growing ticket sales, a spruced-up stadium and energetic local owners willing to spend some cash.

The 40-year-old Seymour had a well-established life in Fort Myers, Florida. He worked his first sports internship with the Fort Myers Miracle minor baseball club.

The closer

Thu, 01 May 2008 13:09:01 -0700

by Jon Ferry

“Why am I successful? Well, this company has a book,” Reynolds told the convention. “It tells you how to sell, and I follow it 100 per cent. I don’t believe I have any better ideas than the person who put that book together.”

As the six-foot-three 66-year-old relates the anecdote from his modest Vancouver office at the blue-chip law firm Lang Michener – where Reynolds works as a “senior strategic advisor” – his point becomes clear: you don’t have to be especially creative or brilliant to be successful in life.

Man of the north

Thu, 01 May 2008 11:44:13 -0700

by Tony Wanless

In 30 years, he's ascended to the uppermost stratum of world business.

As a youth, Tom Albanese fled a small industrial New Jersey town for Alaska. Albanese, now 50, is the first American CEO of the venerable London-based mining giant Rio Tinto PLC, which last year took over Alcan Inc. in a $38-billion deal. He went to university in Fairbanks, Alaska, for degrees in mineral economics and mining engineering.

La vida Barcelona

Thu, 01 May 2008 10:54:15 -0700

by Peter Severinson

What B.C. could learn from Barcelona is living day-to-day rather than constantly thinking about the future.

In the cards

Thu, 01 May 2008 10:36:15 -0700

Jessica Werb

We finally meet at the Cactus Club in Richmond, a couple of days after the March 2008 Canadian Open Poker Championship in Calgary, where Booth came in second, winning a cool 50 Gs.

He emerges from a gigantic yellow Hummer in flip-flops, loose jeans and a black hoodie emblazoned with logos for Full Tilt Poker, a website he’s paid to support. A large gold ring with multiple diamonds catches the light as he offers his right hand, delivers his “cutie” line again and decorously leans in for a two-cheek peck.

Southern spell

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:03:00 -0700

BCB Online

The biggest challenge has been understanding the health-care system in the U.S., which is very insurance-driven compared to Canada. A hospital here can refuse to treat a person if it does not accept their insurance.

Flying high

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:05:00 -0700

as told to Jessica Werb

The water in Nitinat is extremely cold, so you need to wear a thick wetsuit, plus a helmet, life jacket and harness. But it’s all worth it; a surfer might ride a wave for a few seconds, but on a kiteboard you can go back and forth, back and forth, without stopping.

Lane Merrifield

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:57:00 -0700

by David Jordan

When you join a company like Disney, you’ve got a whole new set of tools at your disposal. One of the things we’re most excited about is international expansion, and this spring we’re going to be launching a dedicated U.K. version of Club Penguin.
It’s now an old story: how the trio of twentysomethings just wanted to build a safe social-networking site their kids could enjoy free of advertising