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In its third year, the Forthwith Festival celebrates creativity and improvisation through visual installations, music, performance and food.

A new space inside McPhillips Station Casino opened last week. Loft 180 is a modern, loft-style setting where visitors can enjoy elevated, globally-influenced dishes, enticing cocktails and local craft beer, alongside exciting live entertainment and gaming.

Many businesses are mere financial products. Some people are interested in using their business to make money. The type of business they’re in doesn’t matter as much as the financial opportunity. Other people choose work they enjoy doing in a business they care about.

Kembel, the driving force behind EMK Clothing, began sewing when she was in Grade 5, although her mom’s creativity set the pattern for Kembel’s pursuits well before then. By the time she was in junior high, she was sewing clothes for herself and friends.

Greg Tonn opened Into The Music new and used record store more than 30 years ago and proved himself ahead of the curve by continuing to stock vinyl even when CDs made them seem obsolete.

Amanda Kinden continues the rise of Oh Doughnuts. Learn what it’s like to create a business with lots of dough, the kind that has been transformed into more than a million of her gourmet take on the centreless sweet—and savoury—treats.