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The Performer: Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman
Acclaimed for her powerful, charismatic solo performances, Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman, 33, has been described as possessing what “may be one of the great voices of the 21st century.” Since launching her career in 1998, she has performed with some of the world’s top orchestras in the most prestigious venues in North American and Europe. Last year, she survived a brush...
10 stocks to grow old with
Bill Turnbull is the living definition of the phrase “long-term investor.” The 89-year-old former bank manager has been saving money for more than 40 years — starting in the late 1960s, when his kids were young and his mortgage was new. Turnbull’s investment style has evolved over the years, but since the ’90s he has focused almost exclusively on blue-chip stocks that pay juicy...
Foreign stocks: Europe’s meltdown
Just when you thought it was safe to worry about something other than the fragile global economy, along comes the worst financial crisis Europe has seen in years. The panic set in on April 27, when Standard & Poor’s downgraded Greece’s credit score to junk status. Since then, the MSCI Euro index — the eurozone benchmark — has dropped 10%, creating global concerns about...
Investing: Prescription for profit
On March 22, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a landmark bill that gives roughly 32 million uninsured Americans health-care coverage for the first time. It was a historic moment for our southern neighbours, but here in Canada keen investors were watching something other than the explosion of punditry on CNN — they were watching stock prices in the volatile American health-care sector....
Emerging economies: Border crossing
It was just over a year ago that the stock market’s recovery officially began. Between March 9 and May 7, 2009, the S&P/TSX composite index jumped more than 2,800 points, and investors were thrilled that the dark days of the recession were over. Since then, however, the picture hasn’t been as rosy. In the following 11 months, the markets have climbed only 1,800 points, leaving anxious...
Income trusts: Trust temptation
Leslie Lundquist will never forget where she was the day Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced the federal government would tax income trusts. It was a Halloween afternoon in 2006, and the fund manager at Calgary’s Bissett Investment Management was sitting in a colleague’s office, having a casual, late-day chat. “Then my phone started ringing off the hook,” she says. When she heard the...
Why the banks want to be your Facebook friend
Ever wonder who’s checking your Facebook profile? Sure, there are probably the old standbys, like your high-school crush and your nosy co-worker, but you should be aware that there might be someone else checking you out: your banker. Financial institutions of all stripes have been scouring social-networking sites since the days when MySpace was all the rage; now they troll Facebook, Twitter...
Travel: St. John’s, Nfld
Compared to most of Canada’s major cities, St. John’s, Nfld., is tiny. And yet when the Juno Awards comes to town on April 15 to 18, visitors will be taken by the outsized personality of the place — not to mention the spectacular views of the Atlantic. Metric, Michael Bublé and tween hero Justin Bieber are set to perform at the event. But for pure entertainment, it’s hard to compete with...
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