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Patrick Lemaire, president and CEO of Boralex Inc., at head office in Montreal.
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Providing renewable energy on several fronts

Patrick Lemaire of Boralex is focusing on projects with long-term contracts to sell power at set prices

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McCormick Canada CEO Keith Gibbons says baby boomers’ willingness to try different flavours and different foods increases with age. 'We are seeing increased experimentation.'
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Keith Gibbons: Spicing up the business model

The head of the Canadian unit of global giant McCormick sees consumers’ tastes changing around the world

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Juan Carlos Villegas,Chilean-based president of Finning South America: 'Chile has three main challenges to accomplishing all this investment and growth: energy, water and people.'
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Finning International rides Chile's resource boom

Low production costs and a mining tradition have eased the way, but a looming shortage of skilled workers is problematic

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Martha Wyrsch, president of Vestas North America, in the green sweater, with colleagues atop a Vestas V90-3.0 MW turbine at the Caribou Wind Park, west of Bathurst, New Brunswick.
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Shooting the breeze with an advocate for wind power

Martha Wyrsch, of wind turbine maker Vestas, sees a very positive long-term future for the industry in North America

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Paul Alofs, President of the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation.
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Trading financial profit for social capital

Paul Alofs jumped to the non-profit sector to run the fundraising efforts at Canada’s leading cancer hospital

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When Tor Myhren took the top job at Advertising heavyweight Grey Group in New York in 2010, he became the first creative to run the shop.
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Tor Myhren: A 'creative' gets the agency’s juices flowing

Advertising companies are usually run by the business types, but Grey Group has been turned around by a guy from the other side of the house

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McDonald’s Canada CEO John Betts at one of the chain’s Toronto outlets. ‘The food is a lot more relevant today.’
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Not your old-school McDonald’s

John Betts, CEO of McDonald's Canada, has seen a lot of changes in his 40-odd-year career

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Michael Denham, president of Accenture Canada:Michael Denham: ‘I haven’t seen enough change. And the urgency is a lot higher now.’
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A consultant’s rallying call to grow globally

The need to tap fast-growth regions is ‘just not resonating’ with Canadian companies, says Michael Denham

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Bioniche founder Graeme McRae, one of the longest serving CEOs in the biotech sector.
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Cattle vaccine for E. coli needs political boost

Biopharm company looks to Ottawa to help finance distribution and to Washington for U.S. approval

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Annette Verschuren, seen March 20, 2012. 'I wanted something I could be passionate about. I’m an entrepreneur and I love growth.'

An entrepreneurial passion renewed by renewables

After leaving Home Depot, Annette Verschuren was looking for new challenge. She found it in NRStor