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Video: Forthlane’s Martha Simmons explores how to navigate the family office space

And why it’s essential to keep up with the changing landscape

March 6, 2025
Special Reports, Women in family offices

March 8 women stand together for International Women's Day.

Women in family offices: a special report throughout March

A look at why women are taking a bigger seat at the table in family offices and what the numbers say

March 3, 2025
Special Reports, Women in family offices

Alessia, left, and Mirabela Muresan, who partnered with universities to sponsor student initiatives aimed at nurturing young talent: “We're committed to empowering parents and children to embark on their entrepreneurial journeys with confidence and enthusiasm.”

Vancouver mother-daughter team bootstrapped startup

From a corporate career interrupted by COVID, Mirabela Muresan channelled her family’s entrepreneurial skills and founded AlessiaAdora with daughter Alessia

July 5, 2024
Family Business

Placeholder image for Canadian Family Offices.

Be a female-friendly advisor: Help clients’ kids be finance-savvy

Financial advisors can strengthen client bonds by helping their offspring improve money-handling and investing skills

May 29, 2024
Wealth

Robyn Mair, left, and Monika Scott, founders of Mint Cleaning Products, with products in over 200 retail locations across Canada, saw business double last year, and an upcoming pitch to CBC’s Dragons’ Den.

B.C. mompreneurs’ turned health challenge into winning product

Lung scarring pushed Robyn Mair and Monika Scott to create eco-friendly Mint Cleaning Products in Ucluelet, Vancouver Island

May 10, 2024
Family Business

Lexi Miles Corrin, founder of Toronto-based WAXON Laser + Waxbar, with her family: “We are on a mission to revolutionize franchising from what has traditionally been known as a ‘boys’ club’ to an empowering, supporting opportunity for women in business.”

Lexi Miles Corrin built female-focused Waxon franchise at 25

Toronto-based WAXON Laser + Waxbar is a fully female franchise system and the firm’s philanthropy supports girls with potential

May 1, 2024
Family Business

Mother-daughter founders of Lifted Movement, Kate, left, and Kiara LeBlanc.

Ski accident led LeBlancs to create Lifted Movement

The Vancouver family who founded aromatherapy firm Saje, found a silver lining in the rehab needs of their daughter

April 9, 2024
Family Business

Claudine Blondin Bronfman and Stephen Bronfman (grandson of Samuel Bronfman, of Seagram’s fame) created the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Family Foundation, which supports a variety of local, national and international programs with an emphasis on creating and innovating.

Claudine and Stephen Bronfman have donated over $100 million

When Claudine Blondin married into Montreal’s Bronfman family, she pivoted from a marketing career to work with her own and the larger family’s philanthropy