History is ripe with hucksters. Investors were reminded of this again this month when stock market darling Gowex declared bankruptcy.

In a recent National Geographic article, paleontologists reported the discovery of a new fossil. The 126 million year old creature was given the name Cretophasmomima melanogramma which sounds slightly more exotic than its meaning: ancient black-lined stick insect.

A scrappy, twenty-something-year old from Detroit, Andy Didorosi does not fit into the typical image of American capitalism.

In the months since the news of the crisis in Ukraine first broke, media outlets have followed a conflict that has gone from an internal matter to one that is international in scope.

The date was November 9, 1989. George Bush Sr. sat in the oval office, a host of senior intelligence officers before him.

It was pitch black and a frigid -30 degrees when we began our descent. What meagre light we had came from beat up headlamps and the muted glow of stars.

The man in front of me wore a peculiar tweed jacket that matched his charismatic, if quirky, personality.

The beginning of each year is often a period of reflection and learning. With this in mind, we asked our team at Mawer for their top book recommendations for 2014.

It was my 5 year old son’s first hockey session with the Timbits program. The kids all had white stickers on each side of their helmet, marking them with a unique number for “the scouts. ”