Voices
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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
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March 15, 2019
Perfectionism versus Excellence
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March 15, 2019
The greatest sales strategy on Earth
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March 8, 2019
With the Ontario College of Trades about to be “wound down,” reader looks forward to photo of Doug Ford “knee high in waste”
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March 8, 2019
