by Connie Adair | Jan 19, 2022 | Featured, Profiles
Goran Bucan of Sutton Group Vancouver brokered the single largest commercial transaction in the Metro Vancouver area in 2021. Bucan, the self-described middleman and the only broker involved in the deal, brought together property owner QuadReal Property Group and...
by Diane Slawych | Jan 12, 2022 | Featured, Profiles
It was a day in May 2019 that Melanie Chiu, broker at Engel & Völkers Toronto Uptown, won’t easily forget. She was at the Hospital for Sick Kids in Toronto with her four-year-old son Liam, who was receiving treatment for a type of cancer called acute lymphocytic...
by Sohini Bhattacharya | Jan 4, 2022 | Featured, Profiles
Growing up in Guyana, Colin Campbell always knew he wanted to live in Canada. He doesn’t remember how that dream began. After all, in Guyana he had a bright future ahead of him working in the ministry of culture, youth and sports where he quickly became the youth...
by Connie Adair | Dec 30, 2021 | Featured, Good Works, Profiles
A young woman left home when she was 15 and was estranged from her parents for a decade. She moved into Indwell, a non-profit that promises hope and homes for all, got her medications sorted and felt safe. Then she invited her mom to her apartment for tea, says real...
by Diane Slawych | Dec 16, 2021 | Featured, Profiles
As a teen growing up in Italy, Vince Tersigni was approaching his time for compulsory military service when his father gave him another option. He could go to Canada, where his father had been working on and off for about 10 years in the lumber trade, sending money...
by Connie Adair | Dec 15, 2021 | Featured, Profiles
Mary Lynn Machado makes her clients cry. The Realtor, with Macdonald Realty on Bowen Island, B.C., says her clients have been moved to tears when she presents them with a meaningful, personal closing gift – a painting of the house they have sold and are leaving...