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From engineer to restaurateur: Liberty Entertainment’s Nick Di Donato

Liberty Entertainment Group runs multiple restaurants and event spaces in Toronto, including the iconic Casa Loma site and the Liberty Grand at Exhibition Place

January 18, 2024
Family Business

From left, Chris Wyse, president; Jim Wyse, founder and proprietor; Midge Wyse, coproprietor; Kerri Wyse-McNolty, vice-president of Burrowing Owl Estate Winery in Okanagan, B.C.

Developer stumbled across abandoned B.C. vineyard, sparking family business

Like her dad, Burrowing Owl Estate Winery’s Kerri McNolty started out in a different industry, but she and her siblings took the reins and never stopped learning

August 29, 2023
Family Business

Manga Hotels founder Sukhdev Toor created the Toor Family Foundation, aimed at supporting philanthropic initiatives focused on health and wellness.

Hotelier Sukhdev Toor came as immigrant and now gives back through foundation

Once new to Canada, Toor couldn’t find work in his field. He ended up founding Manga Hotels and created the Toor Family Foundation to focus especially on mental health

July 20, 2023
Philanthropy

Markus Frind: “On the Internet, everything moves at light speed; when building buildings or developing land, everything takes and is measured in terms of, years, not days.”

Markus Frind: From Plenty Of Fish to plenty of grapes

When the British Columbia entrepreneur sold his dating site, one of his next ventures was creating Frind Estate Winery, returning to his family’s farming roots

June 1, 2023
Family Business

Greg Sorbara family enterprise: from real estate to politics to farming

Member of the Sorbara real estate family and former Ontario MPP, together with his extended family, brought a farm and hotel to life

March 3, 2023
Family Business

Cosimo Mammoliti, left, makes panzerotti with his son Matteo.

Terroni’s Mammoliti: How rejection spurred him to succeed

Restaurateur Cosimo Mammoliti shares how teachers’ and bankers’ rejection motivated him, how the family avoids stepping on each others’ toes, and whether the kids want in

December 1, 2022
Family Business

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