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June 12, 2019  

YES! Payroll is expensive! Listen to the bookkeeper we all need!

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June 10, 2019  

When you know just how irrational your customers really are, you can sleep till noon.

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June 4, 2019  

Part 2 of What Steve Said! Steve Barkhouse on mistakes and the passion it takes to overcome them

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May 27, 2019  

Conservative Contractor? Us? A reader accuses us of right-wing media bias

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May 24, 2019  

A review of Ontario’s WSIB includes testing its efficiency against private sector insurance providers. It’s a test it can’t pass.

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May 17, 2019  

Code changes that could save thousand$ Why they can’t—or won’t—get done even when they are smart, cost effective and timely

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May 16, 2019  

The problem employee: “He is stuck, running at about 60 per cent efficiency, dreading every day but doing the best he can.”

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May 16, 2019  

Perfectionism versus excellence

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May 10, 2019  

Carpenters unions against the cash-deal industry? They are creating the problem in the first place, he argues

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May 10, 2019  

Are the unions really interested in legit workplaces – or their job security?

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May 10, 2019  

Comment about Bleasby’s article “kicking our addiction to A/C”

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May 3, 2019  

Before you frame a shower enclosure, do this…

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May 3, 2019  

Two words that can improve your business – and your life – beyond measure

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April 29, 2019  

Passive House building is great building

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April 29, 2019  

Quebec contractors in six trades can work in Ontario without bothering with OCOT, Questo points out

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April 18, 2019  

Water leaking in from the highest part of a basement built on bedrock?

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April 18, 2019  

Sub trade asks for advice on how to get paid by his GC

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April 12, 2019  

Can you open two companies to minimize WSIB premiums, reader asks

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April 12, 2019  

A cousin of one of Mike Holmes’ crews has a message to all the critics…

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April 5, 2019  

Not everyone thought all of our April Fool’s articles were funny. For example…

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April 5, 2019  

Even veteran construction safety expert Alec Caldwell got taken in by our April Fool’s fake news story on Mike Holmes

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April 5, 2019  

Our fake Mike Holmes story for April 1st ruffled feathers of a resident near Meadow Lake, SK

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March 29, 2019  

Reply from Casey Edge on how to educate public officials on housing facts

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March 29, 2019  

Casey Edge’s article on government “downloading” was exactly right

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March 22, 2019  

Client complains about his “unregistered” cash-deal contractor who did substandard, unfinished work

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March 15, 2019  

Kudos for the HomeStars Awards