Carol MacDonald understood the challenges facing Gotcare, the personalized home-care service she co-founded, when a request came in to assist a 16-year-old Indigenous girl living with a spinal cord injury. The teen lived on a First Nations reserve in rural Southwestern Ontario, and her trauma required a specialized care provider. MacDonald, also Gotcare’s president, felt the girl should ideally receive support that aligned with her Indigenous background and culture. MacDonald says that within

It’s 1990s Etobicoke. Young Igor Samardzic is crafting narratives as he plays with his LEGOs. He imagines tension between the figurines and gets to work figuring out how to accommodate their differences in his finished LEGO masterpiece. Today, Samardzic is 32. He’s an urban planner and disability advocate who lives with conductive hearing loss. Complex problems that need to be resolved to create something cohesive and purposeful still fascinate him.

You might say it was love at first bite. Professional eaters (yes, that’s a thing) Randy Santel and Katina DeJarnett initially met through their online channels, but it wasn’t until Santel met her in person that he realized he really did kinda like her. It was July 2020. DeJarnett had accepted Santel’s invitation to join him on a road trip through Alaska to take part in five food challenges in 10 days. The challenges involved eating a 40-inch pizza, reindeer meat, six eggs, a 1.5-pound cinnam

A 360-degree approach to cybersecurity means factoring in all aspects of security, whether your global team members are working in the office or at their dining room tables. “You’re only one accidental click away from an incident,” says Ben Fisher, chief information officer at TOA Global. “Cybersecurity involves a holistic approach to people, process, technology … in that order.”

Like other accounting firms may have experienced, Verdant was growing and needed to boost its capacity by adding more staff. Mission accomplished, and accomplished quickly and efficiently: Angela Schroeder, vice-president of business development at Verdant, reveals how the firm has scaled in the past year, including: • Freeing up leaders for client-facing work • Increasing team size from 22 to 29 (22 in the U.S., 7 in Clark, Philippines)

It’s said that good things happen in threes, and that’s just what appears to have happened in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador. The construction and opening of a new state-of-the-art long-term care home has created jobs, relieved the health-care system, and marked the completion of the provincial government’s first public-private partnership project.

The largest project in the city of Dieppe, New Brunswick’s history is on track to open its doors for the first time to serve as a multipurpose and intergenerational facility and economic boost to the region. Called UNIplex, after the provincial co-op bank UNI Financial Cooperation, which purchased naming rights to the building for $1 million for 15 years, is expected to open this September or October.

Property managers aren’t going to risk guessing how and when to clean their apartment buildings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, they’re heeding and keeping an eye on guidelines from public health officials.

If you're looking for Lawrence Warriner, there's a good chance you'll find him on a trail in Toronto's Don Valley. He'll either be running on it, which helps manage his tinnitus, or cleaning it.