You may be thinking about those spring-time projects that you will need to tackle this year, like landscaping the garden, rebuilding a patio or fence, changing older windows and doors, a new roof, or even remodeling your basement, kitchen or…
Author: Nora Cole
In early 2007, Ian Wright, a lawyer and partner at Scott, Petrie, Brander, Walters & Wright LLP, in London, Ontario approached our firm with an insightful query. Ian, an employment lawyer, believed that the way employee benefits had been valued by…
Imagine one day you have a massive heart attack and can’t come to work for weeks. What would happen to the day to day operation of your business? Who would pay the wages, write the cheques to pay the bills,…
Far too often, going to an estate planning seminar is like watching paint dry because the information is too technical and tax driven. Earlier this year, I was part of an estate planning session that focused on more unconventional estate…
Some time ago I received an e-mail from the chief financial officer of a New York-based software company that had just bought a Canadian firm with 200 employees. They were asking for a resource to set up an equivalent to…