Five strange things that were up for rent in the ’sharing economy’
There’s an Airbnb-type service for far more than home rentals these days
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What it takes to become an underwater welder
In a trades program, Shelsea Hill discovered a love of welding. Then she found out she could do it underwater.
Meet the RV dwellers facing eviction in Tofino, B.C.
RV living serves as affordable housing for the oceanside town’s workers, who say there’s nothing wrong with their way of life
The working class has had enough
How a once undervalued, ignored and politically silent group is fighting back
The Inuk woman using TikTok to expose high food prices in the North
’Food insecurity is not just about food insecurity,’ says Kyra Flaherty. ’It ties into so many other societal problems.’
A once-bustling Greyhound rest stop sits empty. It’s a relic of a bygone era.
The Log Cabin Restaurant, an empty way station where you could stretch your legs and feed the caged bears, symbolizes the end of the bus line age in Canada
How robo-advisors help you ride out the investment roller coaster
New tools help emotions from getting in the way of smart financial decisions
Why isn’t more clothing made in Canada?
Buying affordable domestically made clothing isn’t as easy as the “shop local” mantra makes it sound. Here’s how we got here—and what it would take for the industry to return to its former glory.
How business schools are dealing with the rise in cryptocurrency
Over the past five years, digital finance has increasingly become part of business education
’Big Scotch’ is going after this Canadian distiller for naming his whisky after himself
The Scotch Whisky Association filed a lawsuit alleging Graeme Macaloney’s distillery was illegally branding its whisky as though it were Scotch, with his use of words like ’island’ and even his surname, ’Macaloney’