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Deposit dilemma
Jeff Johnson is a diligent saver. He’s only 46, but the business developer is well on his way toward a comfortable retirement. Every year he maxes out his RRSP contributions and with other investments and accounts in his portfolio he’ll have enough dough to help him live well into his golden years.
But, even with myriad investment options, the Aylmer, Que. resident is planning to open a new...
This album brought to you by — you
It’s unlikely you’ll see Walter Braunsteiner on the Grammys’ red carpet or rubbing shoulders with Kanye West, but that doesn’t mean this 36-year-old Austrian can’t be the world’s next big music mogul. An insurance industry IT specialist by day, Braunsteiner has given up buying CDs of up-and-coming artists, instead focusing his energies, and money, on developing them....
Digital music: Don’t blame your public library
Unfortunately for the thousands of Canadians who borrow music from the library, the days of flipping through a library’s CD collection could be numbered. In 2007, the Toronto Public Library saw music checkouts decline by seven per cent, while the Winnipeg Public Library saw its numbers drop by five per cent. The reason? More people are finding music online.
Like retail music stores, which saw...
Kathleen Edwards: Lyrics to empower
After years of performing in clubs and concert venues, you’d think Canadian folk singer Kathleen Edwards would have her live performance down to a science. On January 27, she sang the national anthem at the NHL All-Star Game, and everything she’d previously learned went out the window.
“It was the most foreign thing I could have possibly done,” Edwards says, speaking to Inside...
Bryan Borzykowski is a Toronto-based writer and editor working mainly for business and entertainment publications. He regularly contributes to Canadian Business magazine, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, PROFIT, MoneySense and the Advisor Group. Bryan's the editor of Review magazine and is a senior editor with Connected for Business magazine. He's also a contributing writer with Hello! Canada and was once a weekly music columnist for Metro News. He's been nominated for several National Magazine Awards and recently co-authored