John Carpay – Alberta Director, Canadian Taxpayers Federation
Last February, John Carpay was appointed as director and spokesman for the Alberta Chapter of the CTF, a federally incorporated, non-profit organization dedicated to lower taxes, less waste and accountable government.
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John Brussa – Partner, Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP
Reading Canada’s Tax Act could be akin to cleaning out the Augean stables. Even Hercules would have had trouble with that labour.
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William L. Hess – President and CEO, Canadian Venture Exchange
As president and CEO of the Canadian Venture Exchange, Bill Hess has been instrumental in working through a change in ownership for Calgary’s junior stock exchange.
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Tracey Ball – Senior Vice-President and CFO, Canadian Western Bank
“Thinking western.” As senior vice-president and CFO of Canada’s only chartered bank with head office in western Canada, Tracey Ball says that attitude towards doing business has allowed her bank to enjoy healthy growth while maintaining flexibility.
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Value, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Where one analyst sees a petroleum producer trading around $35 per share as a hidden gem, another views a maker of garbage trucks going for $3 a share as a buying opportunity.
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Scott Tannas – President and CEO, Hi-Alta Capital Inc.
Scott Tannas is shaking up financial services in rural Alberta. His High River-based insurance brokerage firm, Hi-Alta Capital Inc, has recently reached out to offer financial products and services to clients, recognizing that the withdrawal of banks from smaller centres created a market opportunity.
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My cat should be tax deductible. She is an office expense; I use her as a paper shredder. Since she refuses to accept payment, I should be allowed to write off her food, litter, and catnip.
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New York-based financial astrologist Henry Weingarten contends that stock exchanges have birth dates and horoscopes just like people do.
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The e-mails arrive with seductive subject lines that immediately capture your attention. The proposal is unsolicited but intriguing, with a great emphasis on the opportunity to pocket a large sum of money by capitalizing on shoddy paperwork of a West African country, usually Nigeria.
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Hi, my name is Marty, and I’m a stockaholic. Its been three days since I last checked my stock prices. I am addicted to the quotes that scroll across the television screen. I am a slave to the stock ticker. Last year, I bet the farm on tech stocks. For a while I was on a hot streak, but then I crashed harder than a computer with the AnnaKournikova virus.
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