Raj Dhunna and Regency are raising the standard for condos and Edmonton's downtown >
Location may be everything in business, but Pierre Couchard knows sex sells. Under the watchful noses of a parade of mayors and disapproving neighbours, Couchard has operated Chez Pierre, Edmonton’s first strip club, for more than 30 years. In its heyday of the mid-1980s and ’90s, Chez Pierre’s scantily-clad dancers entertained the city’s corporate heavies, politicians, sports heroes and visiting celebrities.
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For 10 years, Alberta Venture has marked Small Business Week in the October issue, with extended coverage of micro-enterprise. An update on a few things we reported all those years ago
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Web Exclusive: Lessons from a Small Business Startup
The first throes of life for a small business are a gut-wrenching time, as the soon-to-be business owner embarks on the unfamiliar path of launching their bright idea. If only there was a way to learn from someone else’s mistake. Well, now there is.
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How can Alberta maintain a viable petrochemical industry in a time of declining natural gas production? The government’s made a good first step
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Tom and Emmy Droog: Founders/Owners, Spitz International >
Despite having no hospitality experience, Madeleine and Alan Ernst took their love for the mountains and turned it into a new career and a new life when they opened Aurum Lodge in 2000. Having spent 25 years in banking, freight and travel, the Ontario couple decided it was time for a change. After two years of searching, they settled on the eastern front ranges of the Rockies, 40 km east of Banff National Park.
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Do you hate your business partner, even sometimes? You’re not alone. Here are some things to think about before going into a partnership – and before getting out
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If the Grey Eminences column is about retired CEOs, Jean Paré wants me to know that she doesn’t qualify; she’s not retired, doesn’t believe in it, never will. While others retire or switch to less onerous vocations in the volunteer sector, Paré, 79, is still an active force in the company she founded in 1981. >
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