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Toast to success: Divorce mediator Barry Brown says he sometimes advises his clients to sit down to a dinner, with wine while they discuss their problems and look for solutions.
Toast to success: Divorce mediator Barry Brown says he sometimes advises his clients to sit down to a dinner, with wine while they discuss their problems and look for solutions.

Toast to success: Divorce mediator Barry Brown says he sometimes advises his clients to sit down to a dinner, with wine while they discuss their problems and look for solutions.

Date1/8/1988
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Business is Booming, for Laurier Life and here's a deskful of new orders for the company's president, Ernest Brooker. With no salesmen and using only direct-mail promotion techniques, Laurier Life has found a big insurance market in areas - such as older clients - long-established firms sometimes neglect.
Business is Booming, for Laurier Life and here's a deskful of new orders for the company's president, Ernest Brooker. With no salesmen and using only direct-mail promotion techniques, Laurier Life has found a big insurance market in areas - such as older clients - long-established firms sometimes neglect.
3/1/1972
Dilemma facing analysts in current trend of firms buying back own shares from minority shareholder is how to advise their clients
Dilemma facing analysts in current trend of firms buying back own shares from minority shareholder is how to advise their clients
11/14/1977
Mel Cox, director of the credit bureau, says it doesn't set credit ratings or advise members on the advisability of giving credit. Its role is to collect facts and pass them on to clients. Almost a million credit histories are on the firm's files.
Mel Cox, director of the credit bureau, says it doesn't set credit ratings or advise members on the advisability of giving credit. Its role is to collect facts and pass them on to clients. Almost a million credit histories are on the firm's files.
8/12/1971
Bank economist Forrest Rogers: Instant solutions impossible
Bank economist Forrest Rogers: Instant solutions impossible
4/1/1977
Fixes: Boeing president Dean Thornton, left, says solutions are coming for the problems that have delayed deliveries of de Havilland Dash 8s.
Fixes: Boeing president Dean Thornton, left, says solutions are coming for the problems that have delayed deliveries of de Havilland Dash 8s.
4/9/1987
Charles Hebdon, a chartered accountant with particular expertise in retirement planning advises couples to give careful thought to a retirement strategy that reduces taxes by taking fullest advantage of all exemptions
Charles Hebdon, a chartered accountant with particular expertise in retirement planning advises couples to give careful thought to a retirement strategy that reduces taxes by taking fullest advantage of all exemptions
n.d.
Street talk: Social worker Stan Chong, centre, chats with Stewart, left, and Stephen at video parior in Scarborough. Chong's job is to cruise the city's youth hangouts in search of the unemployed who have either been forgotten by the system or have simply opted out. Once he locates them, he advises them on how to go about finding a job.
Street talk: Social worker Stan Chong, centre, chats with Stewart, left, and Stephen at video parior in Scarborough. Chong's job is to cruise the city's youth hangouts in search of the unemployed who have either been forgotten by the system or have simply opted out. Once he locates them, he advises them on how to go about finding a job.
2/22/1984
Following the market: When the market is at a low - as it is these days - that could be a good timie for a novice to get into the action, advises Dave Conway, a broker with Davidson Partners Ltd. in Toronto. But it's important not to jump in blind, he cautions. The biggest mistake prospective investors make is not being aware of what their objective are, he say.
Following the market: When the market is at a low - as it is these days - that could be a good timie for a novice to get into the action, advises Dave Conway, a broker with Davidson Partners Ltd. in Toronto. But it's important not to jump in blind, he cautions. The biggest mistake prospective investors make is not being aware of what their objective are, he say.
2/15/1982
He advises businessmen: Executives will have better luck being constructive instead of totally negative in their approach to government, says David MacNaughton, a lobbyist who runs Ottawa-based Public Affairs International Ltd
He advises businessmen: Executives will have better luck being constructive instead of totally negative in their approach to government, says David MacNaughton, a lobbyist who runs Ottawa-based Public Affairs International Ltd
11/10/1981
Bill Boyko, Stay alert, he advises
Bill Boyko, Stay alert, he advises
5/28/1978
Train yourself to look sincere as you're clawing your way up the ladder, advises Michael Shea, once press secretary to the Queen and now director of publicity for a large British corporation and author of a book on getting to the top
Train yourself to look sincere as you're clawing your way up the ladder, advises Michael Shea, once press secretary to the Queen and now director of publicity for a large British corporation and author of a book on getting to the top
11/22/1988
Toby condliffe: Make choices based on a fund's long-term track record, the executive vide president at Midland Walwyn inc. advises.
Toby condliffe: Make choices based on a fund's long-term track record, the executive vide president at Midland Walwyn inc. advises.
12/27/1991