Ziyah Karmali is a self-proclaimed social butterfly. That’s not a bad attribute when you’re Miss Edmonton 2010 and a finalist for Miss World Canada, who is also fully bilingual, academically accomplished and multi-talented. After graduating with her Bachelor’s Degree in Education from the University of Alberta in 2009 and completing her practicum, Ziyah signed a one-year contract to teach French [...]
Mark Holowaychuk loves money. Always has… always will. While most children were busy trading cards and playing Pogs, Mark was selling cards and investing in GICs. While many guys in their 20s were playing video games in their basements, Mark was building an on-line business from his. “I love the idea of a passive income,” he admits. He also loves health and [...]
One would think that after working in her father’s Indian restaurant throughout her teens, Joti Tung would have wanted a change. Not so. “Since I was 18, I had been bugging my dad, ‘I want to open a restaurant… I want to open a restaurant,’” Joti recalls. But her father encouraged her to try something different. So Joti went to the [...]
Computers play a large part in Maziyar Khorasani’s life. In high school, he fixed computers for friends and classmates to make extra money. Now, the 28-year-old is applying his extensive knowledge to create a hand-held laboratory-on-chip that cuts the time for medical test results from days to minutes. After earning his Computer Engineering degree in 2005 from the University of Alberta, [...]
Lisa Belanger is the kind of woman that sees the positive in life. During her first year of Human Kinetics at St. Francis of Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Lisa lost her best friend Jane to Hodgkin’s Lymphoma—a tragedy that prompted her unfailing motivation. Lisa has since raised thousands of dollars for cancer foundations and done invaluable research on the [...]
Entrepreneurship runs in his family. Keith Bruinsma always knew he would start his own company. “It’s in my blood. It’s in my DNA,” he explains. At the age of 29, he owns and operates Yellowhead Waterjet, which specializes in abrasive jetting technology to cut materials like steel and stone into various products—precision parts, signage, promotional items and even decorative works [...]
