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Melissa Auf der Maur is back
It’s been five years since Melissa Auf der Maur — the Montreal-raised Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist — released any solo music.
It wasn’t supposed to take this long, there was some music ready to go, but the faltering music industry held her back. “I have literally been busy fighting lawyers and record companies,” she says on the phone from a small town in upstate New York.
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Mobile phones: How to manage your money on the go
It happens to the best of us: an important bill goes missing or an investment gets ignored. Thanks to modern technology, it never has to happen again. All you need is an iPhone and two minutes to download a personal finance application from the app store. There are plenty to choose from, but we think these six are the best.
Pennies ($2.99)
Proper money management starts with a budget. But it’s...
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