Move east, think small

The Globe and Mail publishes an online magazine called Report on Small Business and has just announced that it has scooped the Editor-in-Chief of BC Business magazine to run it. Noel Hulsman had been in the top chair at Canada Wide's BC Business for a little more than a year. He has an MA in urban planning from the University of Waterloo and, according to the Globe's internal announcement, went after graduation in 1994 to Kuala Lumpur to work on "a massive property development on the South China Sea". He moved back to Vancouver in 1997 and worked his way up from freelancing. His challenge now (and we again quote the Globe) is to "set about the complex task of reinventing RO[S]B and the small-business hub on globeandmail.com." The reinvention starts January 9.

[UPDATE: It has been pointed out that Report on Small Business is more than an online magazine, but is circulated largely outside of Ontario sponsored by the Federal Business Development Bank.]