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Fighting Cancer With Food
Cancer is the most frightening word in the English language in my personal opinion. In 2016, I lost one of my best and closest friends to cancer. Bill Mclean sat opposite me for 16 years on the trading desk. In 2018, one of my best …
Healthy Lunch Ideas
What is for lunch is the common question asked around my home. Lunch is the meal that is eaten in the middle of the day and is lighter. It is always exciting to get your children involved in activities that you like. I always look …
Hurting To Hope
Last year, I was hurting. Ok, Jerry, the truth is you were hurting very badly. Debbie was going through chemo, Jean was looking for a job, and I was facing unemployment. A year later, Debbie is in remission, Jean has two job offers, and I …
Julia Palfrey: Milk & Honey
Julia is the Pastry Chef at Eden at the Rimrock Resort in Banff Alberta Canada, 5 Diamond BCAA rating, one of three 5 diamond restaurants in Canada. She grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, and started cooking at 19 years old. She did a 4-year …
Canadian Minted Immigrant
The immigrant has made Toronto the most multicultural and diverse city in the world. More than 200 ethnic groups live here and speak 140 languages. Toronto is one of the most educated cities, creating more jobs in tech than New York and San Francisco. There …
What to Look for in a Restaurant When You Go Out to Eat
Janak Bhawnani, Vice President of Operations at Easton Group of Hotels talks about the hotel business and what to look for when you eat in a restaurant. Janak, whenever I ask you about the hotel business, you tell me you are in the business of …
Ashley: One Journey Away
Ashley was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. She had lived there her whole life there until she decided to move halfway around the world to Edinburgh, Scotland back in September 2015. On what she likes she says “I enjoy traveling with my husband, Arek, …
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is taking a risk, bootstrapping, and the extraction or creation of value. Entrepreneurship is the robust and dynamic process of being energetic in launching and running a new business. The goal in taking on risk is to create profit. The creators who think outside …
Casey Palmer: Canadian Dad
Casey Palmer is an amazing blogger, father to two, husband to one, second to none, and part of the Toronto Bloggers Collective. I have had some interesting conversations with him over the last year and he has some amazing insights into being a Canadian Dad. …