Raj Dhunna and Regency are raising the standard for condos and Edmonton's downtown >
It seems Edmonton ain’t big enough for two city publications. Just ask Ron Garth, the man who started the city’s two urban weekly newspapers – Vue Weekly and See Magazine. The ongoing rivalry between the two publications has been long and bitter, chock-full of name calling and high-court drama.
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Betty Ford is an employer’s dream.
The 75-year-old’s boss even has a nickname to describe her perennial performance as the company’s top sales producer. It’s Dynamo Betty.
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Judy Wood’s culinary career started in her mother’s Montreal kitchen. From there, she graduated to the famed L’École de Cuisine La Varenne in Paris, earning a Grand Diplome. The executive chef then went to work at several popular restaurants across Canada: the David Wood Food Shop in Toronto, the Four Seasons Hotel in Calgary and Buchanan’s Chop House in Calgary, to name a few.
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The bank where I opened my first chequing account was painted dusty rose. My prize for starting a life-long relationship with unsaid bank was a leatherette dusty rose chequebook. Now in my 30s, I abhor colour, an obvious reaction to the pink palette that characterized my formative years. >
It’s an inspirational scene. A couple of friends are sitting around a kitchen table, sleeves rolled up, slurping coffee and furiously scribbling million-dollar ideas onto a napkin. This, at least in Hollywood, is how business plans are born. Chances are, however, that most schemes conceived at midnight eureka sessions no longer exist. Some impulsive entrepreneurial ideas lead short lives. Others evolve into reconstructed business models – possibly successful, possibly not. >
Dr. Wolfgang Tittel invites you to imagine a box, smaller than small.
Smaller than any atom.
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It’s a Friday night in early March, mid-dinner rush, and I’m trying to sweet-talk my way into the kitchen at BlinK Restaurant and Supper >
Imagine standing 26 metres in the air on a slippery steel platform in the thick of winter, the wind and snow blowing as you manoeuvre pipe in and out of an oil well, better known as tripping. That’s the life of a derrickman – risky business that Dave Richard sees as unnecessary. >
Highway 2 begins, appropriately, in a hamlet called Carway on the Alberta-Montana border. U.S. Route 89 ends and the spine of this province heads north, through towns such as Cardston and Fort Macleod, through the Calgary-Edmonton corridor, on to Athasbasca, where it veers west and, skirting the southern shores of Lesser Slave Lake, fishhooks into Peace Country and enters the final leg between Grande Prairie and British Columbia.
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Thirty years ago, Robert Wong tackled his first “Abracadabra!” after watching a magician perform on TV and later live at a party. Wong began reading about and practicing magic, and hasn’t stopped since. After years of performing magic on the side and working a variety of jobs, including stints as an aerobics instructor, disc jockey and salesman, Wong, now 41, finally became a full-time performer in 2006.
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