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Rob Carrick

Rob Carrick has been writing about personal finance, business and economics for over 20 years. He joined Canada’s national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, in late 1996 as an investment reporter and has been a personal finance columnist since November 1998. In previous jobs with The Canadian Press, he covered the Federal Department of Finance […]

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Michelle Good

Michelle Good is a Cree writer and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. After working for Indigenous organizations for twenty-five years, she obtained a law degree and advocated for residential school survivors for over fourteen years. Good earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of British […]

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Mark Black

Mark Black is a husband and father of three. He is also the only man in history to have completed a marathon with someone else’s heart and lungs. Born with a life-threatening heart defect, Mark underwent open-heart surgery on his first day of life. He was not expected to live a long life. Mark battled […]

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Linda Nazareth

Linda Nazareth is an economist, a futurist and a respected authority on the future of work. As a newspaper columnist and an author, she knows how to frame things in ways that both educate and entertain and as the Senior Fellow for Economics and Population Change at think-tank the Macdonald Laurier Institute she knows what […]

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Dr. Linda Duxbury

Dr. Linda Duxbury is Canada’s most accomplished researcher, writer and speaker and work-life balance. With her work, she has influenced policy and attitudes and created supportive work environments in both the public and private sectors. Currently, Dr. Duxbury is a professor at the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University in Ottawa. She has co-written […]