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Why I am a real estate investment and business coach, Bruce M Firestone, B Eng (civil), M Eng-Sci, PhD Why I am a life coach, Dawn Marie MacMillan Firestone, CPCC, ACC Here’s what former Edmonton Oilers GM Glen Sather (who built their Stanley Cup-winning dynasty in the 1980s) had to say about deal-making: “The best […]

It used to be that if a nation needed a new training facility, government had to write a BIG check to get it built. No longer. Brian Dagenais and his group (BlackSheep Developments, BSD, https://blacksheepdevelopments.com/) have reinvented this industry. How? Well, before I tell you that, have a look at this short video. This is Fortitude, […]

OPEN LETTER TO CITY OF OTTAWA AND ALL THOSE WHO CARE ABOUT SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND JOBS IN CANADA’S CAPITAL CITY March 30th, 2018 OPEN LETTER TO CITY OF OTTAWA AND ALL THOSE WHO CARE ABOUT SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND JOBS IN CANADA’S CAPITAL CITY: Re economic development in Ottawa Attracting top-end talent to this […]

Property animation is everywhere. Whilst I was listening to Toronto artist Scott Hellman’s Kinda Complicated (and missing a certain someone, especially as I heard this line over and over again, ”I only got you and you only got me”), I noticed these images in his video (shot on location in Slab City, California)…

How to determine a site’s HABU, highest and best use? For decades the principle of Highest and Best Use has guided town/city/township/county councils and their municipal planners and economic development offices. To paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill, “It is the worst possible system except for all the others.” It can be defined this way— “Highest and […]

What the hell is the matter with Canadian enterprises and building owners? Why does an Ottawa streetscape I drove by yesterday look like this: While a Paris one looks like this: The Ottawa scene is a picture of Richmond road, one of the premiere addresses in Canada’s Capital City for shops, offices and residences. That […]

[guest post by Sylvain Rochon, futurist] Car manufacturers and ride-share providers plan to start offering self-driving cars in 2020.  Google and Tesla, to name two, intend to start producing and selling fully autonomous cars that year while most other manufacturers will begin with vehicles equipped with level 3 or 4 autonomy, that is, driverless cars […]

Want to attract more millennials to tour your state or province? Then you could do a lot worse than this one minute and thirty second, psychedelic mini-movie by Travel Oregon entitled, Only Slightly Exaggerated: It received 357,947 views on YouTube between March 12th, 2018 (when it was posted) and two days later (March 14th, 2018 […]

In my newest learning outcome novel, Jenna’s Story, I tell the legend of the Black Water, a Brazilian tale about the Negro D’água who protects the streams and rivers of that nation. In this scene, Jenna is explaining to her friend, Tom, why you must throw your first-caught fish back… BTW, Jenna talks like a […]

When I taught at Carleton University’s Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, I emphasized through the course, Design Economics, the importance of treating your clients as patrons not customers. That means, students were encouraged to: -think about not only the beauty of their designs and the urban context in which they were built, but also the […]