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Good news for Alberta workers: Salaries expected to rise
Not only is Alberta seeing employment gains this year, but salaries are also expected to rise in 2012. Despite an uncertain economic climate, Canadian workers can expect average salary increases of 3.1...
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Council compensation, by the numbers
On Wednesday, the Council Compensation Review Committee report was released in the council agenda. It calls for council raises to be calculated using the year to year change in the weekly earnings...
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Clock ticking on Alberta doctors’ pay deal
The clock is winding down on a self-imposed deadline for the Alberta Medical Association and Health Minister Fred Horne to finalize the long-awaited agreement in principle for the province’s 7,200...
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The Problem with Zombies
I’ve been asked a lot recently about why an Angel or Private Equity (PE) portfolio is so binary. Unlike the public markets, it is truly a one or the other outcome with regard to returns; in the private...
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Expectations evolve for directors as compensation rises
By Arden Dalik With required public disclosure, shareholder activism and more intense scrutiny, most of the mystery around a board director’s role has, appropriately, evaporated in recent years. To...
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Busy corporate director counts himself an oilman
The man who is the busiest corporate director serving on Calgary’s largest companies is a tax lawyer by profession but an oil and gas entrepreneur by his own reckoning. John Brussa served on nine...
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Kenney announces benefit parity for part-time soldiers
Reservists injured during military service will get the same benefits as full-time members of the Canadian Forces, the federal defence minister announced Friday. “All vets who are injured or ill, as a...
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Thalidomide survivors''ongoing nightmare' stops with lifetime support
Calgarian Marie Olney was born at a fortuitous time in Canadian medical history: March 1962, the very month a drug known as Thalidomide was pulled from the Canadian market. Originally developed in...
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