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Michael Morris

If the basic premise of business is to find a need and fill it, then Michael Morris has stumbled on both a need and an opportunity.

Morris is a leading-edge Baby Boomer born in 1945. Despite working in the fashion business for 40 years, he found it a “daunting task” to land a traditional job once he reached his 60s.

Now 66, the Toronto resident qualifies for both the Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security but doesn’t view them as sufficient to live on. What savings he had accumulated were consumed on his business ventures. When he tried to get a job working for someone else, his age worked against him.

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