An Executive Speak Extended Cut: David’s Goliath
David Cornhill has taken small regional player Altagas and turned it into a diversified energy giant. How it happened, and what he learned along the way >
Alberta’s Best Workplaces Recognized
Find out who won and see web exclusive photos from last nights award reception >
Alberta’s Best Workplaces Recognized
Get the final results from our annual program >
Alberta Venture Podcast: The Future of Natural Gas
How will this cheap fuel change North America’s energy landscape? >
Auctioneers Across Alberta
An annotated Google Map of every auctioneer in Alberta and a photo gallery from our feature story on the age-old business of the auction >
Alberta Venture’s Design Team Brings Home Multiple Awards
Congratulations to Kim Larson and her design team for their winning appearance at last night’s Alberta Magazine Awards. Alberta Venture won three awards; Best Cover, Best Illustration and Best Photo. >
Alberta Venture Podcast: Fearing Foreign Investment?
Our editors Max Fawcett and Paul Marck discuss the fears and fallacies surrounding foreign investment in Canada >
John Poole Voted Business Person of the Last 100 years
According to Alberta Venture readers, John Poole is Alberta’s Business Person of the Past 100 Years. Thousands of online voters selected Poole – who built the company that later became PCL Construction Holdings Ltd. into one of North America’s largest construction companies – out of 100 other nominees in an online web poll run during December and January. >
Photo Gallery: Fast Growth 50 Reception
On February 9th, 2011 at the Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts in Calgary, 250 guests joined Alberta Venture in celebrating the achievements of Alberta’s 2011 Fast Growth 50. Presented in partnership with KPMG, the annual Fast Growth 50 program recognizes those Alberta-based companies that have seen the most significant increase in revenue, assets and earnings over a three-year period. Now in its 13th year, the businesses that made the 2011 Fast Growth 50 list are Alberta’s growth champions and are setting the pace for the fastest growing economy in Canada. >
Video: Don Lowry’s Leadership Lessons Part 3
More than 450 business leaders and professionals crowded a ballroom at Edmonton’s Westin Hotel on Jan. 20 to honour Don Lowry, president of Epcor Utilities Inc. and Alberta’s Business Person of the Year. Lowry’s accomplishments are nothing to sneeze at — he took a small, municipal water utility, grew it into a profitable regional entity and then got into the power generation business, acquiring TransCanada Power LP in 2005, and then split the company in two, creating Capital Power in 2009. >
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