When we were putting together our new Relationships Issue, I was thinking about the odd, often dysfunctional working relationship between Spock and Kirk and recalled a trailer from J.J. Abrams’ new Star Trek movie where the two of them meet for the first time.

Just another day at work on the USS Enterprise. What does this have to do with Unlimited’s Relationships Issue? Well, for one thing, I’d be out of a job if I spoke to my co-workers that way. Kirk and Spock have a complex dynamic, and it seems to me that, beyond all its melodrama, the K/S relationship represents the changing dynamic between our working and personal relationships.

This is where The Relationships Issue – our first that you can only find online – comes in. In her Rich by Thirty column, our personal finance expert Lesley Scorgie looks at the people you must have on your financial dream team – your NBA all-star line-up, you might say. Then, in The Family Business, we profile three groups whose personal relationships and working relationships are the same thing, from two generations of architects under the same roof to friends who own a small boutique.

There is also our relationship with places to consider. In City of Jobs, Jeremy Derksen explores how the urban landscape affects employees. And in Rebranding For a Recession, we re-imagine mottos for Canada and a few of the provinces that takes the current economic climate into account.

As our work lives and our personal lives converge – most of the time for the good, sometimes for the not so good – the relationships we have with the people we work with will be more important than ever.

Browse through the website to make all the connections in this issue, then check out our daily blog for more.

_Craille Maguire Gillies, editor, unlimitedmagazine.com

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