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Here comes the neighbourhood

K evin MacKinnon knows all about the privileged world of the rich. His workplace is one of the posh hotels in Yorkville, the kind where high-maintenance Hollywood actors stay. A front-desk manager, he looks the part, neatly turned out with clipped blond ...

From CATHERINE MCLEAN, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Tim Hortons Inc.

Calamity sinks dreams in the deep freeze

For Chapman's Ice Cream, Sept. 4, 2009, started off like countless other days, its factory cranking out frozen lollies and yogurt cones in the final warm weeks of summer. Owner Penny Chapman sat in on the daily morning meeting with the rest of the ...

From CATHERINE MCLEAN, Globe and Mail,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Grant Thornton International,  Unilever PLC,  Nestle

Baby's birth pushes people into estate planning

Building Blocks, a special web series geared towards educating young Canadian families about various personal finance topics, launched last month on the Globe Investor personal finance site. Building Blocks will run online every Wednesday for four ...

From CATHERINE MCLEAN, Globe and Mail,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Andrea Thompson

Burger chain sizzles in the Far East

T he Pacific Place mall in the centre of a buzzing Hong Kong can boast of having the world's top brands as its residents. Shoppers can pick up trendsetting fashion from the likes of France's Celine and Chanel or timeless jewels from Italy's Bulgari. And ...

From CATHERINE MCLEAN, Globe and Mail,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: McDonald's,  Chanel,  Bing Crosby,  Michael J. Fox,  Michael Buble

Social media can pull in clients

After exchanging greetings, the first thing I do when I get digital marketing guru Mitch Joel on the phone is fess up: I have no blog, no Facebook account, nothing beyond basic e-mail. "You're the one," he says. "I found the patient zero." But he doesn' ...

From CATHERINE MCLEAN, Globe and Mail,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Bill Clinton,  Bank of Nova Scotia,  Twitter Inc,  John Stevenson

Small businesses are ready for a rebound

Early last fall, the owners of Rocky Mountain Soap Company made a gutsy move: they decided to proceed with a dream to take a year off to travel with their young children even as a nasty recession loomed. By January, the economic outlook was downright ...

From CATHERINE MCLEAN, Globe and Mail,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Royal Bank of Canada|RY|NYSE

Man drowns in rescue attempt in cottage country

One man has drowned and another is clinging to life after they were pulled from the water at Bala Falls in Ontario’s cottage country this afternoon, just a few days after a triple-drowning in the same area. Two more swimmers are feared dead after two ...

From CATHERINE MCLEAN, Globe and Mail,  5 Aug 2009

Two more swimmers feared dead in cottage country

T wo more swimmers are feared dead after two men were pulled from below the falls in Bala, Ont., about 45 minutes from Moon River falls, where three men drowned on the weekend. The men, visitors from Mississauga and Chicago, entered the water after a ...

From CATHERINE MCLEAN, Globe and Mail,  5 Aug 2009

Man drowns trying to save daughter, police say

One man is dead and his brother was is clinging to life last night in a Barrie, Ont., hospital after the pair jumped into the churning waters at the base of a Muskoka-area waterfall to save a nine-year-old girl who police say is the daughter of the man ...

From CATHERINE MCLEAN, Globe and Mail,  5 Aug 2009

Related Topics: John Lawrence

Telecom profit growth seen stalling

Profit growth in Canada's telecommunications industry will stall in coming years as competitive battles keep a lid on prices, the Conference Board of Canada said Wednesday. As cost increases outpace revenue growth, the Conference Board expects profit ...

From CATHERINE MCLEAN, Globe and Mail,  28 May 2008

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