Featured Stories

Distillery jewelry designer Lara Bazant has a keen eye for beauty & a fair mind for business.

Carla Lucchetta Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Lara Bazant's ethical jewelry business is the perfect combination of intricate design, fair trade materials and chemical-free processes. With a varied background and extensive travel, she also chose Toronto to set up her growing business.

Arts and Culture, Design, small businesses, Sustainability

Downtown Eastside - Old Town - Corktown

PAYEing it forward: the PAYE program is getting Toronto youth jobs

Paul Gallant Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The PAYE employment program strives to find enough jobs for youth eager to get to work. The challenge now is to find a wide range of companies of varying sizes willing to participate in the program.

Diversity, small businesses

Financial District

Eddy Robinson wants to reframe Aboriginal culture in Toronto

Paul Carlucci Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Eddy Robinson sees business as empowerment. An Anishnaabe native, he heads up a cultural business in Toronto, one he's currently revamping with the help of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business. To him, it's all about Aboriginal cultural and economic revitalization.

Arts and Culture, Diversity, small businesses

When the world's your niche: Toronto's International Design Firms do big business

Paul Gallant Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Toronto's architectural design firms beat their competition by ensuring they have no competitors and by tapping into the diverse and talented pool of designers and artists that live here. You might even be surprised where some of our firms have been working.

Arts and Culture, Design, Diversity, small businesses