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Junxion's Hilary Mandel offers highlights and takeaways from this year's SVI Women.     My mother was a 1960’s stay-at-home mom who, like many of her peers it seems, wasn’t terribly happy about her lot in life, even though she had the lawyer husband, the two kids, the 3-bedroom 2-bath suburban ...

We are The Product of Our Environment Take a peak into your closet. Amongst your favourite outfits and outcasts, you are bound to find at least one item ...

Ask Marcie Weinstein-Smith what inspired her to start her company, and she’ll give you the typical “mompreneur” spiel: her baby needed “something,” she couldn’t find that “something” on the market, and so she made it.  Turns out, that “something” was Canada’s first natural diaper ointment in a stick.

Like any good entrepreneur, Janie Hoffman gets excited by the thought of seed money.  In her case, that seed is chia, which she sells in a variety of delectable snacks and drinks through the company she started in 2009, Mamma Chia.  Based in Southern California, Hoffman ...

Emira Mears is a busy woman. In addition to running the company she co-founded, Raised Eyebrow Web Studio, and raising a pre-schooler, she’s also the lead organizer of Social Venture Institute Women- Vancouver (SVIW), taking place May ...

This article is the final in a series highlighting the 2013 ENP Social Enterprise Heroes event, presented for the third consecutive year by Junxion Strategy, along with JDQ Systems and KPMG. “WHEREAS the Province of British Columbia recognizes the need to ...

This article is one of a series highlighting the finalists in the 2013 Social Enterprise Heroes event, presented for the third consecutive year by Junxion Strategy, along with KPMG and JDQ Systems. What happens when a nonprofit social service agency develops a program that’s so innovative and successful ...

This article is one of a series highlighting the finalists in the 2013 Social Enterprise Heroes event, presented for the third consecutive year by Junxion Strategy, along with KPMG and JDQ Systems. Like all good social entrepreneurs ...

This article is one of a series highlighting the finalists in the 2013 Social Enterprise Heroes event, presented for the third consecutive year by Junxion Strategy, along with KPMG and JDQ Systems. Heather Johnstone jokes that leaving her early career as an anthropologist on British Columbia’s Northwest coast to ...

Successful companies look different today I was asked recently a question you’ve heard before: “Imagine you’re hosting a dinner party, and you can invite ten people, living or dead. Who would they be?” It’s a ...