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The path to riches usually starts with a family business. To use private-banker jargon, the Patriarch founds the company (they never say Matriarch) and then passes it to the Next Generation and then maybe to “Gen 3.” Inevitably, the family members start fighting and the business goes under or is sold for a Liquidity Event. [...]

As a 10-year-old boy, Matt Horsfield understood much of what was unfolding around him when his father, Pat, decided to start a construction business.
Now, as an adult and president of his father’s firm, Horsfield Companies, Matt Horsfield said he realizes how substantial his father’s undertaking was.
“Essentially, he gave up everything and sacrificed everything,” he said.
All [...]

Only a third of family-owned businesses make it to the second generation. Some local entrepreneurs have taken steps to make sure their families — and their businesses — survive and thrive.
When Christopher Schneeman graduated from college, he was determined not to follow his father and grandfather into the family business of selling property and casualty [...]

Friday, June 13 is the third-annual Today I’m Working for Physician Recruitment Day. Organized by the Southern Georgian Bay Physician Recruitment Task Group, the campaign is designed to raise awareness of the need for family physicians in the Southern Georgian Bay area and raise funds that will be used in the recruitment of family physicians.
“The [...]

The teen years are a time of changing relationships. One important relationship that changes is between the teenager and his or her doctor.
The focus switches from making sure the children are up to date with their immunizations and hitting all the development milestones to making sure the teenagers are safe and educated.
“During the teen years, [...]

Health Minister Ben Bradshaw today underlined the Government’s commitment to investment in family doctor services on a visit to a newly opened GP health centre in Kirkby-in-Ashfield near Nottingham.
Six GP surgeries and 15 GP-led health centres are being procured across the East Midlands as part of the trailblazing work underway to improve access to and [...]

Jonathan is deeply relieved when Annabel suggests they forgo their customary family holiday in Italy for a week’s camping in Wales. With two sets of school fees for them to worry about, fancy foreign holidays are increasingly looking like a thing of the past. And besides, he has fond memories of childhood camping in Scotland: [...]

School is out, but that doesn’t mean learning should take a break for the summer – especially when studies show learning that takes place outside school has great influence on future academic achievement. The National Center for Family Literacy has created fun lessons to boost learning this summer.
The National Center for Family Literacy has created [...]

Shouts of “That’s my boy” could be heard from mothers as their sons shook hands with chancellor Roberta Bondar at Trent University’s convocation ceremony yesterday
But for 80-year-old graduate Carl Wienecke, the cheers were “That’s my dad.”
Wienecke, a Tweed resident, began his studies at the Oshawa campus at the age of 65 after a 25-year career [...]

An AIDS patient involved in an awareness campaign has been banned from staying with his family by elders in his Murshidabad village.
Twenty-six-year-old Ananda Biswas’s wife, too, has been denied a job at the local health centre in Nabagram, about 230km from Calcutta, because of her husband’s illness.
Since May 28, Ananda (name changed) has been living [...]