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On the mark

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:01:00 -0700

By Paul Willcocks

First, Mark Marissen played rough to deliver B.C. for the Paul Martin camp, leaving plenty of disgruntled Liberal party members in his wake. Then, he turned on the charm to lead Stéphane Dion to an unlikely victory at the 2006 Liberal convention. As the political strategist readies himself for the campaign of his life, will the victims of his old take-no-prisoners approach come back to haunt him?

Climate of change

Tue, 01 May 2007 22:23:00 -0700

By Andrew Findlay

Business people, political pundits and environmentalists all sing a similar tune. Lofty goals make for good headlines, but we need detailed policies if we have any hope of achieving emission targets set by the BC Liberals. The question: is the government’s climate-change war cry all bluster, or a signal of substantive policy changes that will impact how we do business?

Tale of two towns

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:15:00 -0700

Don Whiteley July 2007

In one corner: the town of Kitimat, with suspicions that Alcan wants to halt aluminum production in favour of selling power to BC Hydro. It’s doing everything it can to foil the aluminum giant’s electricity sales. In the other corner: Terrace, with big plans to create an aluminum-based secondary-manufacturing industry. It wants to keep its largest employer happy and is less than thrilled with its neighbour’s mudslinging. Let’s get ready to rumble

Doing the right thing

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:47:22 -0700

Everyone agrees that businesses should be ethically run, but very few companies have figured out how to make sure that all employees are reading from the same script. Without a formal ethics policy, a company can easily find itself on the wrong side of a corporate scandal

I am Sam

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:46:24 -0700

By Frances Bula

Yes, but who exactly is that? Vancouver’s business community can’t quite figure out its aw-shucks mayor – who’s been likened to everyone from Howdy Doody to Karl Rove in a wheelchair