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Adam Lambert: Centre of the storm
Before last Sunday, Adam Lambert was famous for two things: being the first openly gay American Idol contestant and losing the Idol title he clearly should have won.
But after an over-the-top American Music Awards performance — he kissed his male keyboardist and participated in simulated sex act — he’s suddenly become the most controversial artist in the music biz.
“I figured it would have...
Tags: Adam Lambert
Eco-burial: The future of death
Twelve years ago, Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak was working in her greenhouse in the serene Swedish countryside when a morbid thought popped into her head. As she looked at her plants, her mind turned to death, specifically what happens after living things die. Plants become soil, but people? We either rot or get turned into ashes. “Soil production is beautiful,” she explains. “The other options aren’t...
Tags: environment, Funerals
The day trader
Nominated for a 2010 National Magazine Award
Every morning at 4 a.m., Wally Trenholm’s internal alarm clock startles him awake. He jumps out of bed and walks over to a wall of eight glowing computer screens, each one buzzing with charts, news feeds and economic data. He flips on CNBC to catch European business news and then heads to the fridge to grab a heaping plate of Chinese food — he always...
Getting a late start on the college fund
As American newspaper columnist Bill Vaughan once said, “A college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income — which he then spends sending his son to college.” This sentiment is as true today as it was when Vaughn was writing in the ’50 and ’60s, only these days, it’s often two working parents who, combined, can’t afford their kids’ tuition. But don’t...
Interview with Michael Ignatieff
Canadian Business: To start off, the question on everyone’s mind: How will you pay down the deficit?
Michael Ignatieff: First of all, we need to know what its size is. There’s substantial doubt as to whether the Conservatives’ numbers can be trusted. We started with no deficit, then we went to $32 billion, then we went to $50 billion and now we’re at $56 billion. We’ve asked for the parliamentary...
Bryan Borzykowski is a Toronto-based writer and editor working mainly for business publications. He writes for the New York Times, Canadian Business magazine, Globe and Mail, Bloomberg Businessweek Custom Publishing, Toronto Star, MoneySense and more. Bryan's the editor of Review magazine and is a senior editor with Connected for Business magazine. He's also a contributing writer with Hello! Canada and was once a weekly music columnist for Metro News. He's been nominated for several National Magazine Awards and he's co-authored