There are 100,000 toxic properties in Canada. The good news? Many have to be cleaned up fast

If you're looking for a portfolio that is easy to assemble, requires minimal trading, and can spin off increasing amounts of cash every year, blue-chip dividend stocks are the way to go

Whistler has better elevation, but Blue Mountain has a bigger market. Which resort is the smarter buy?

Sherry Cooper, the Toronto-based chief economist at investment dealer BMO Nesbitt Burns, is the author of The New Retirement: How It Will Change Our Future. The bestselling book has just been released in paperback.

Influence, authority, clout...they're tough to define, but impossible to mistake. The 10 listed here (and 10 runners-up) aren't necessarily the best-or richest-investors in the country. They're not even all investors. But they shape the Canadian investment industry, and when they speak, the market listens. Now more than ever.