The booming business of beauty boxes
Online companies are turning free cosmetics samples into big profits
Tamsin McMahon
Maclean’s associate editor Tamsin McMahon covers business and the economy. Previously she has written about crime and politics for several Canadian newspapers and has been nominated for a Michener Award and a National Newspaper Award.
One-time Cadbury heiress sells her mansion to fund chocolate venture
Felicity Loudon is moving on with a vengeance after Kraft’s purchase of Cadbury in 2010
Kenneth Victor Williams
He started his own logging company, survived numerous accidents and watched his mill burn to the ground
Pop-up goes the shop
Major retailers are embracing what used to be a guerrilla marketing move by the small guys
Commodities boom, miners’ bust
Canadian resource companies were among the worst performers of the year
Health care superboard is superbad in Alberta
Centralized health care may be cheaper, but it comes at a political cost
State of the anti-union
Automakers are flooding to the Deep South for cheap, union-free labour
Hospital performance is all over the map
Quality of care varies from province to province and hospital to hospital, according to newly released data
What the budget means for your finances: Cross-border shoppers rejoice!
The duty exemption for cross-border shopping will be raised up to $800. On the downside, many family-friendly tax breaks are over.
The 2012 budget is in: No more pennies, OAS retirement at 67, $5.2 billion in cuts
Anyone born after February 1962 will have to start planning for freedom-67