Category: Business

  • Coffee with a cause

    Coffee with a cause

    As the coffee industry booms, local shops are working hard to promote ethical business practices both in and out of their communities. Kingfisher Coffee Co., on Meadowbrook Drive, is a roasting company that has been donating one per cent of its coffee production to two homeless shelters since January. It’s a good way to “show them…

  • Getting hooked on free mobile games can cost you

    Getting hooked on free mobile games can cost you

    The tense silence of Jordan Furlong playing a game on his cellphone is abruptly broken by a loud, frustrated string of cursing, and a mock motion of throwing his phone to the floor. And then he starts over and repeats. The mobile game Flappy Bird is on the other side of his phone screen. And it’s…

  • Food trucks: A tale of two cities

    Food trucks: A tale of two cities

    For Jim Godina, the worst of times happened in 2004 when he was in a car accident that would change his life. While driving along a slick, wintry road, Godina’s car slipped on a patch of black ice and spun out of control into a ditch.  Godina, 47, survived the crash but sustained a severe…

  • NHL’s biggest comeback… the fans!

    NHL’s biggest comeback… the fans!

    Across from Rogers Arena in Vancouver, in a Costco parking lot, two silky green figures exit a car and make their way to the rink. Known to many in the hockey world as Sully and Force, the Green Men remain faceless and anonymous to everyone in the sporting world. As the first inductees into ESPN’s…