by Dennis McCloskey | Mar 28, 2016 | Featured, Profiles
When Mark Faris was playing semi-professional hockey in Sweden and the U.S. he was ever-mindful of popular Wayne “Gretzkyisms,” such as, “You miss 100 per cent of the shots you don’t take.” Faris first strapped on a pair of skates at age 5 and at 23 he was playing in...
by Dennis McCloskey | Mar 1, 2016 | Boards & Associations, Featured, Profiles
Princess Diana once famously said, “Family is the most important thing in the world.” Lucky Betty Doré! She has two “families.” One immediate family consists of her two grown daughters and two granddaughters, ages 6 and 16. The other “extended” family is the people...
by Dennis McCloskey | Feb 1, 2016 | Featured, Profiles
Guten Tag. Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Martina Robinson and Frank Harmsen certainly do. The married couple from Hamburg, Germany, have carved out a successful niche market in Nova Scotia selling real estate to Europeans – as well as to Canadians and Floridians – through...
by Dennis McCloskey | Oct 28, 2015 | Featured, Profiles
It would be a safe bet to say that brain surgeons could sell real estate but a real estate professional cannot do brain surgery – or at least they better not! Tony Ma has done both and while he would be the first to admit that selling homes is not exactly brain...
by Dennis McCloskey | Feb 2, 2015 | Featured, Profiles
Recently the president and CEO of McDonald’s Restaurants, Don Thompson, admitted his company continues to struggle in the fast food market, saying the corporation hasn’t kept up with the times and that changes are in store for its U.S. restaurants. A week later,...
