Ever get the feeling that tingly Spidey sense that someone is watching you? Following your every move, reading your texts and emails, listening to your phone calls and looking at the pictures on your phone? Welcome to the era of mercenary spyware. It can bust into your cell phone and send everything on it to another source that wants to know what you are doing, where you are going and who you are talking to. In the official parlance, these technologies are known as “On-Device Investigative Too

The pace of change in the job world is eye-watering. The word “disruption” would be an understatement to describe the revolutionary changes that are upending the old ways of working and sourcing workforces. SuperTemps are the centre of this storm SuperTemps are the army of on-demand, white-collar freelancers, professional free agents and senior-level project workers who are on the march into the workforce. The SuperTemp is not your grandfather’s short-term fix for a secretary on leave. Toda

If the global economy were viewed as a fairytale, we’d be going from Goldilocks to the Big Bad Wolf. Goldilocks is actually a term used by some economists to describe an economy that is “not too hot and not too cold, but just right,” as Goldilocks herself said while sampling the three bowls of porridge. That would be an economy that is neither expanding nor contracting too fast. Inflation and unemployment are low, while growth is steady. Perfect, in other words. Goldilocks has been our friend

Here we are. One year on, and the wound still bleeds from the heart of Nova Scotia. And the healing has yet to begin. It was one of those events — like the Twin Towers terrorist attack on 9-11 or the John F. Kennedy assassination — when we remember where we were that Sunday when the news started breaking. I wasn’t looking at Twitter or any social media that morning as the horror was unfolding. I was listening to nice music on satellite radio out of California. My first news of the carnage ca

What Gen are you? X? Y? Z? If you say Zee instead of Zed, you’re probably Gen Z. Maybe you are a hard-working Traditionalist or a prosperous Baby Boomer. And what does your generation say about you? Does it really define a whole group of people born at a certain time or is it just an arbitrary way of putting folks in boxes? Probably both. But there are certain common experiences and challenges that shape the thinking and values of people born of an era. For example, if you are a Traditional