Soup’s On!
Carmie Nearing: owner and chef, Spoon Fed Soup >
One of a Kind
The Physician Finder
Trudy Carrels: founder, Global Physician Placement >
Let Him Eat Cake
Bob Beeson: president and co-founder, the Cheesecake Cafe >
Say It Like You Mean It
Sharon Edwards: president, Edwards Communications >
The High Cost of the Free Market
Ravi Natt: chair, Wood Buffalo Housing and Development >
The Price of Ice
Jerry Antoniuk: owner, Polar Ice Express
Who would have thought that ice – something anyone can make in the freezer – would be the cause of an all-out business war? Certainly not Jerry Antoniuk, owner of Edmonton-based Polar Ice Express, when he entered the ice-making business in 2001. And yet, that’s exactly what happened with competitor Arctic Glacier, the largest packaged ice producer in Canada and one of the largest in the U.S. >
Tomorrow’s Agriculture
What began as a TV series in Manitoba featuring innovation in the new economy has since evolved into a Calgary-based company that fosters innovation in the knowledge-based industries – agriculture and food, environment, life sciences and information technology.
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Classrooms without Borders
Imagine attending school in real time without leaving your house or collaborating face-to-face with people on the other side of the world. Elluminate Inc. makes this and much more possible. More than 800 institutions across North America use the Calgary-based company’s products and services for live online collaboration and learning. >
The King of Bling
You don’t get much gutsier than Gerry Gilroy. For starters, he trained alongside Canadian boxer George Chuvalo back in the ’60s in Toronto. >
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