Marcie Good
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In early 2014, Anne Stewart, then a partner at law firm Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, was feeling some angst. Approaching 65, the mandatory retirement age at her workplace, Stewart wasn’t quite ready to move away from her nearly four-decade...
A few years ago, Vancouver-based Glenn Ives attended a meeting with 22 of professional services firm Deloitte LLP’s senior managers at a regional office in Ottawa overlooking a golf course. “I was talking about how we needed to change things...
On a rainy Sunday in September 2013, multitudes showed up at Queen Elizabeth Plaza in downtown Vancouver. They walked through an arch that had been blessed by a First Nations healer and set out for Concord Place, passing by drummers...
In early 2011, Donna Spencer, long-time artistic director of Vancouver’s Firehall Arts Centre, was thinking about how to produce a show using Leonard Cohen’s music. She had just called a director in Thunder Bay, Ontario, who had recently done a...
About 12 years ago, Tracey McVicar got a phone call from Beverley Anne (Bev) Briscoe. The two knew each other in passing, but McVicar, who had recently set up the Vancouver office of New York-based private equity firm CAI Capital...
To help us choose last year's 30 Under 30, we sent each candidate a series of questions to see what made them tick. Here's how Adelle Renaud, President at Noble Motives Collective, responded.What motivational quote gets you going?“Be yourself; everyone...
To help us choose last year's 30 Under 30, we sent each candidate a series of questions to see what made them tick. Here's how Wilson Lee, who is Founder and CEO of Wun2Free, responded.What motivational quote gets you going?“GSD—Get...
To help us choose last year's 30 Under 30, we sent each candidate a series of questions to see what made them tick. Here's how Bryan Gallagher, who is the Business Development Manager for Inlailawatash Limited Partnership, responded.What motivational quote...
To help us choose last year's 30 Under 30, we sent each candidate a series of questions to see what made them tick. Here's how Braeden Caley, who became the Liberal Party of Canada's senior director of communications in February...
At Cured, a much-lauded restaurant in the Pearl district of San Antonio (pictured above), the hostesses fill water jugs at stainless-steel sinks that brewery workers used for decades as hand-washing stations (pictured below). They’re among many artifacts preserved and given...
Late last November, a video shot at a Best Buy store in Halifax went big on Twitter. The scene: staff lined up near the front door, applauding, as dozens of customers strolled in to kick off Black Friday. That week...
To help us choose last year's 30 Under 30, we sent each candidate a series of questions to see what made them tick. Here's how Mariel Armstrong, who co-founded Partyskirts in 2013, responded. What motivational quote gets you going? "Be inspired...