Steve Payne
Steve Payne is the editor of Canadian Contractor magazine
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Canadian Contractor
August 7, 2014
Should you team up with a contractor referral service?
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Canadian Contractor
August 6, 2014
Craig Lowe, Mike Holmes' painter, dies while scuba diving off Cape Breton
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Canadian Contractor
July 31, 2014
Ontario College of Trades: A bunch of smart bureaucrats – parasites drunk with entitlement and power
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Canadian Contractor
July 31, 2014
8 simple things that every renovator needs to be doing
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Canadian Contractor
July 30, 2014
City of Montreal pulls out of renovation subsidies
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Canadian Contractor
July 30, 2014
Marketing and organization skills for professional painters
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Canadian Contractor
July 25, 2014
The best tradesperson dance video we have ever seen – by Weird Al Yankovic
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Canadian Contractor
July 25, 2014
The Ontario College of Trades, directed by the unions, seems to be modelling itself after North Korea's dictatorship
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Canadian Contractor
July 25, 2014
I've been working on a T&M basis for years, including charges for sourcing materials, and I have had no complaints
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Canadian Contractor
July 25, 2014
My plumbing 'warehouse' on wheels – just a GMC Savana – helps me avoid supplier runs 90% of the time
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Canadian Contractor
July 23, 2014
New code for seismic building in B.C. affects sliding door installations
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Canadian Contractor
July 18, 2014
If you're in the residential service business, then StraightForward Pricing is the only way to go
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Canadian Contractor
July 18, 2014
Minister, it is unbelievable that you have accepted this conflict of interest (at the College of Trades) and done nothing about it…
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Canadian Contractor
July 18, 2014
Having know Mike for many years, it was a surprise for me to see him venture into the referral business
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Canadian Contractor Marketing & Sales
July 18, 2014
Contractor referral model… is flawed and not sustainable
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Canadian Contractor
July 14, 2014
Why The Holmes Group ended their contractor referral program
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Canadian Contractor
July 11, 2014
Should a bathroom fan in Ontario be vented through the roof or through the fascia?
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Canadian Contractor
July 11, 2014
I fired the contractor, rehired him, took two weeks off work to help him, and fired him again…
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Canadian Contractor Estimating
July 11, 2014
A new slick scheme called Straightforward Pricing
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Canadian Contractor Marketing & Sales
July 11, 2014
42 per cent interest on overdue Yellow Pages advertising payments?
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Canadian Contractor
July 9, 2014
Holmes Referred Contractors to cease operations on July 15
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Canadian Contractor
July 9, 2014
Another Ontario drywall contractor plans to challenge a WSIB audit
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Canadian Contractor
July 4, 2014
A pattern of needless, completely preventable workplace deaths
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Canadian Contractor
July 4, 2014
I've worked for neurosurgeons who didn't know how to turn off the stop under their sink to stop a leak
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Canadian Contractor
July 3, 2014
In Quebec, the first offence fine for an unlicensed contractor is $10,000 – second offence is $30,000
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Canadian Contractor
July 3, 2014
I think the best idea (to combat the underground) is government tax credits for work done legally
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Canadian Contractor
July 2, 2014
Renovation spending in Canada reaches $63.4-billion, pushed by 'HGTV Effect'
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Canadian Contractor Marketing & Sales
July 2, 2014
Home Depot shows its Pride
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Canadian Contractor
June 26, 2014
Working in the family business… the train tracks rule
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Canadian Contractor
June 26, 2014
