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Almost three months and more than 5,000 kilometres after beginning, Tanya Lee Howe and Jocelyn Rawleigh’s bike ride across Canada to raise awareness for Alzheimer’s disease is almost complete.

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Caring or career? Given the choice, which would you choose? With Bill 203, Alberta’s caregivers won’t have to agonize.

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A fascinating opportunity in home-based business is quickly emerging: manufacturing small items in moderate quantities at home, using robotics. So far, this has been a phenomenon mostly restricted to geeky hobbyists (a device called the MakerBot leads  the market), but changes are happening that I believe will transform this into a viable home-based business opportunity.

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The past week has been an interesting one, with Apple losing a court battle in America over ebook price fixing, Barnes & Noble letting go its chief executive, and Barnes & Noble announcing (negative) changes to its ereader lineup. My take on all this follows.

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We have just learned that Canada Post no longer allows free change of address services for the administrator of a will. So if you are administering the will of someone, you will now need to pay the commercial rate to redirect the deceased person's mail. This is an expense the administrator can charge back to the estate...

March 18, 2013: Changes to the Provincial Court (Family) Rules come into effect today, to bring it into conformity with the Family Law Act, which replaces the previous Family Relations Act today. There are also some changes to Rule 21 (Parenting After Separation Program).

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Last week Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer had her HR department issue a ban on working from home. This provoked a lot of commentary in the media, much of which was negative. Issues of work-life balance and young parents were raised, along with the many studies showing that telecommuting can be productive. So why the decision?

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Living together without marrying in British Columbia is going to become a lot more complicated on March 18, 2013. The BC Government will put into effect a new version of the Family Law Act on that day, changing what living together has meant in law for the past 35 years.

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I was asked last week, why we do not publish books as “apps” — software applications which are targeted at particular reading device operating systems, like Apple's IOS, or the Android operating system.

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We all have moments when we wonder about our jobs, “why am I doing this?” Usually the thought doesn’t last long, but sometimes it progresses to, “I think I should move on, find something better.” Should you?

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