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Editorial
From one trough to another, call centres continue to suffer

With Volex's apparent shedding of at least 30 Kanata-based jobs last week, it quickly became apparent yet another multinational high-tech machine was ratcheting itself – or, at least, its Ottawa......
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Co-presidents and other strange partnership models

The difficult words came at a recent lunch with an old business friend: "Mike, I'm never doing another partnership. With my next company, I'm going to maintain full control." ...
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Oil prices overblown, say some experts

You might do well to hang on to your gas-guzzling automobile, no matter how much it guzzles. And don't believe all you hear and read about sky-high gasoline prices being here to stay....
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Keeping politicians honest

An online archive could help, argues Jeff Polowin...
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The grass is always greener...

They say it's natural to want what you haven't got, but in Ottawa's and Montreal's particular transit cases, the adage has pitched and rolled itself to lofty heights indeed....
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City in a tizzy over blogger

City hall is all in a tizzy over that famous phrase from the 2006 municipal election campaign: zero means zero. ...
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Church, state and the role of the corporation

I had the good fortune to be present at the Courtyard Restaurant on a warm Monday evening last week, during a dinner in which high-tech guru Jim Roche delivered a stirring sermon....
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Billions of Entrepreneurs

Tarun Khanna - Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Future and Yours, Harvard Business School Press, 2007....
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Leo Valiquette, signing out

For those of you that haven't already heard, let this serve as official notification – this is my last issue of the OBJ....
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On the phone while driving: Perception trumps reality?
The ban on cell phone use while driving has crept to within a stone's throw of Ottawa. But should employers with mobile workers leave it up to the so-called "nanny state" to police sensible behaviour,......
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