Making it through turbulent times often seems like a gift from the gods: a matter of fate, of luck, of good fortune. When I examine things that have gone well for me, there is often a foundation of hard work, of strategic planning, and learning from experience that rests at the heart of these endeavours. Stephen Tallevi, general manager and co-founder of Grocery Gateway (an online grocery retailer), understands this very well. One key ...

The newly-minted LibertasPost.com would like to offer itself up as a meeting-place for Canadian conservatives. The website is an information resource and debate forum featuring a blog – updated daily – as well as topical columns, podcasts, online newsletters, videos, and other features. The website is also home to a conservative advocacy group that goes by the same name. The brainchild of high-profile Canadian activist

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Because I have instant access to info, family, foe, and friend, I am, supposedly, better off in recent decades. But even though society has thrown its arms around electronic devices like they’re Jesus or jewellery, it’s not all milk and money in Blackberry Land. Undoubtedly, communication is critical to success, but too much of anything is unhealthy and, ultimately, unsuccessful. I’m not against technological advances. They’ve been around since the beginning of this story, after al...

I was reading over some statistics the other day. Not that I’m one to follow statistics, but sometimes I feel this need to see how I fit into the world. I discovered that women own 34 percent of small and mid-sized businesses and they are likely to have fewer than 20 employees. Women also tend to have businesses in the service sector. What stood out most, however, was that women-owned businesses are not producing the revenue of their male counterparts. The truth is that businesswomen have a ha...

A few months ago, I received a call from a woman with agoraphobia. Her fear of being in public places meant that she couldn't even do her own grocery shopping. She told me that she forced herself to go out regularly to pick up a copy of Women's Post. There was something about the way our columnists wrote about the world from their own intimate perspective that she absorbed. The more of our publication she read, the more she realized how sick she was and needed help. The inspiration she found in ...

"How did you meet?" I asked two professional acquaintances of mine. I was at a Courage to Lead event last spring, and was chatting with Marjorie Wallens and Sandra Parsons. “We met through the Women’s Portal,” they said. I’m slightly old-fashioned in my yearning for a time when business relationships were not only had via email and other online functions. My belief in the Women’s Portal, then, hinged on its ability to foster the tangible: business ideas put to practice, business r...

They go by many names – Gen Yers, Screenagers, Echo Boomers, Millennials. They’re ferocious multi-taskers, high-maintenance over-achievers, attention deficit-disordered and wired up the wazoo. They are, according to Don Tapscott’s fascinating new book Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World (McGraw Hill), the Internet Generation, or Net Gens. As the first demographic to come of age never knowing a world without cable TV, personal computers, PDAs, mobile pho...

When: Thursday, October 30, 2008 Where: Mercedes-Benz Dundas, the new and improved flagship downtown store. Who: Mercedes-Benz enthusiasts, and those who simply enjoy the finer things in life, gathered to celebrate the completed renovations on Mercedes-Benz Dundas, now the largest dealership in the Mercedes-Benz Canada network. Photography by Meghan Andrews ...