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Recession, schmecession — now is the time to become your own boss. Here are six handy tips to get you started. Be original Coming up with a brilliant, money-making idea is the first step on the path to selfemployment. The second: checking to see if that product or service is already available. However, if it has been done, don’t automatically throw in the towel. “There’s nothing wrong with... 

Every day during the week, my daughter Holly would walk home from school, which was just at the end of our street in the west end of Toronto. A lot of her classmates lived between the school and our house, so she’d often stop at a friend’s, but she’d call to let me know. On Monday, May 12, 2003, she came straight home. She brought this shy, beautiful little girl, whom she had made friends with.... 

Christine Marshall* is a seasoned investor who has money in Registered Retirement Savings Plans and numerous funds, but it’s her earliest investing adventures that she’s most fond of. “My grandparents bought me shares in Irwin Toy when I was very young,” she says, still excited by the memory. “I went to the shareholder meetings and got free toys.” Eventually, the 35-year-old, who works...