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The Petro-Points program, owned by Suncor's Petro-Canada, has been helping Canadians save money on fuel for almost 30 years. It is one of Canada's top loyalty programs, offering rewards and benefits to its members. Members can earn and redeem points on gas, car washes, and more, and can also access exclusive contests and partner benefits. The program has evolved over time, with the launch of a smartphone app and partnerships with RBC and Canadian Tire. The program aims to personalize rewards and create a seamless digital experience for its members. [Extracted from the article]

This is an article that focuses on the lives of rich Canadians and what it means to be rich in 2004.One of the most popular attractions at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto during the '60s and early '70s was a display of a million dollars in cold hard cash. Silver dollars and paper bills, all in mint condition, were assembled each summer into a new diorama: there was a Million Dollar Money Tree, a Million Dollar Merry-Go-Round, and, one year, the risque Million Dollar Bubble Bath, featuring svelte models who'd slowly strip behind a screen and appear to slip into a tub. The 36-year-old married father of two has been making money the hard way ever since his first job pumping gas at his father's Petro-Canada station. if it were, the ranks of millionaires would at least double, given today's real estate prices, says Keith Sjogren, a principal with Taddingstone Consulting Group Inc., which surveys Canada's wealthiest citizens. Traditionally, Canada's millionaires have made their money in one of two ways: by inheriting it or by making a good income and investing it well. Still, most Canadians in the very top bracket resist flaunting their wealth. Discretion, even downright frugality, tends to be admired.

This article focuses on the study of astronomy in Canada. Canadians are masters of the universe. Sure, the U.S. leads the world in spending on space research, laying out roughly US $7 per American each year, while Britain, France and Germany budget between US $4 and US $5 for every citizen. Canada spends just US$1 per capita, less even than Australia. Yet by one important measure -- the confidence of their peers -- Canadian astronomers produce some of the best astrophysical science on the planet. Thomson Scientific, a Philadelphia-based information clearing house, reported Canadian scientists published 4,836 research papers on space in the past decade. Those studies in turn were referenced 76,921 times in other scientific papers, for an average citation rate of 15.91. If one were to list Canada's 150 most cited scientists from the many different fields of study, about 15 would be astronomers, say Jaymie Matthews, associate professor of astronomy at the University of British Columbia. William Harris, a frequently cited astronomer at McMaster University in Hamilton, likens the Canadian success to a talented student making a movie with next to no money. The young director is forced to be innovative. Lack of funding has forced scientists to pick their projects wisely, observes Ray Carlberg, an astrophysics professor at the University of Toronto. Last year's most quoted paper -- cited 1,058 times -- mapped the radiological afterglow of the big bang, in the process helping confirm theories of how the universe came to be. What Canada lacked until only recently was the ability to make observations from space. That changed with MOST, a suitcase-sized, $10-million rocket-borne telescope that was blasted into space in 2003. Backed by the Canadian Space Agency, MOST has already outlived its life expectancy and has another two, maybe three years to go, says Matthews, the project's mission scientist.

This is an article commenting on provinces in Canada and questioning why there is a need for them. A thought occurred to me as I crossed the border into Manitoba from Ontario at about the 20-hour mark of a solo drive that took me from just outside Owen Sound, Ont., to Beaverlodge, Alta. My intention here is not to pick on either Ontario or Manitoba. That frustration, combined with the anticlimactic border crossing, made me realize something: I was tired of the whole concept of provinces. What purpose do the provinces serve anyhow, especially now that they've shorn themselves of valuable institutions, cut social services or downloaded them onto the cities, and streamlined their civil services? So here's what I propose: dissolve the provincial governmental system and free us to roam this country unburdened by a paper trail. Imagine though, the joy you would feel if you could phone your cousin in New Brunswick at tax time, or your sister in Manitoba when registering a new vehicle, and complain about exactly the same forms.

This article focuses on the political endorsement of the National Post newspaper in the recent elections in Canada. Given its strong aversion to anything Liberal, it was hard to imagine the National Post newspaper giving its election endorsement to anyone but Stephen Harper. Still, the paper is owned by Winnipeg's Asper family, long-time Liberals, and some high-placed Grits felt they might at least get a bit of a break on the editorial page. And now, with the electoral dust clearing, it looks as if a promised federal gift of $100 million for a Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg--a special Asper project--is very much up in the air. Shurely not, as editors are wont to write.

Presents news briefs relating to Canada. Criticism of the Canadian government for giving belated recognition to a contingent of Canadian soldiers, training with U.S. and British military forces, for dangerous war-zone service; Fall in the share value of Air Canada following its efforts to seek bankruptcy protection; Use of paper face masks to prevent infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS); Orders from Major League Baseball to sing "God Bless America" during the seventh inning stretch at baseball games; Criticism of a music video made by Madonna which condemns the war in Iraq.

Profiles Canadian cartoonist George Feyer. Biographical information, including his work as a forger of papers and passports during the Second World War; Cartoons that he sold to 'Maclean's'; Description of the cartoons he drew for Imperial Oil television commercials; Thoughts from his peers; Description of his work; His appearances on television in the U.S.; His suicide in 1967; Publication of his book 'The Man in the Red Flannel Suit,;

There is an element of myth to how Canadians see their armed forces, says Alain Pellerin, executive director of the Conference of Defence Associations. That myth has dogged Defence Minister John McCallum since he was catapulted into his position last May from a junior finance portfolio. True, in increasing numbers, Canadians want an able military: in late November, 56 per cent told Liberal pollster Pollara Inc. that Canada should spend more on defense, the highest portion since the firm started tracking in the mid-1980s. ut there has not yet been a full debate on the hard choices and expensive changes that lie ahead. When even peacekeeping in the 21st century is a dangerous task requiring combat-ready troops, when armed forces have been steadily edging into closer co-operation with the U.S., the ministry could charitably be called a public relations challenge. More money is only part of the solution: Canada's military must be restructured to deal with a world of high-tech threats and low-tech terrorism. To his credit, McCallum has started this process in his quest to find annual savings of $200 million. Outside experts will examine how to streamline administration and procurement. Almost $4 billion goes to non-military expenditures such as environmental cleanups. And savings will likely come from the elimination of outdated equipment such as tanks. That is a solid start. But the greatest challenge lies ahead: the updating of the 1994 White Paper on defence. Its basic aims will surely remain: homeland, continental and international defence. But Canada needs new master plans for both defence and foreign affairs.

The article discusses Canadians' denial in considering not Islamophobia as a problem in Canada, including in regard to Canadians' perspectives on Muslims in the country. An overview of the racism and discrimination towards Muslims in Canada, including an attack in March 2017 on a mosque in Quebec City, Quebec and stereotypes about Muslims, is provided.

The article discusses the kidnapping and beheading of the Canadian hostages Robert Hall by the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf in the southern Philippines, including Canadian government's refusal to pay a ransom for his release. An overview of the Canadian government's policy of not discouraging the families of hostages from paying ransoms is provided.

The article focuses on the environmental hazards of plastic bags. The author reports that according to environmentalists, because plastic bags are made from oil, they choke both landfills and wildlife. Jacques Lalonde, a Montreal translator who started an online petition and collected 50,000 signatures, urged the government to consider a tax on each of the plastic bags used by Canadians every year. Liberal Environment Minister Line Beauchamp is weighing the idea.

The article presents the findings contained in a study, conducted by the magazine, that measured the quality of life in Canada versus that in the United States. According to the article Canadians live better lives than Americans, as measured by a number of criteria including life expectancy, personal income and health.

Evaluates the activities of Canadians and others. Way that the palace guards of Great Britain may end the tradition of wearing headgear made from pelts of Canadian black bears; Firing of a pizza shop employee for stopping to aid a gunshot victim in Manitoba; Way that Ontario's education minister was jeered and splashed with water while leaving a meeting with Catholic teachers; Way that Ernie Eves, premier of Ontario, sent the legislature home amid plans to deliver the March budget from a TV studio; Paul Martin, who turned over his shipping business to his sons.

Presents statistics from the Canadian Policy Research Networks related to the salaries of Canadian government and private sector workers as of September 17, 2001.

The article profiles Baljit Singh Chadha, a Montrealer who is a major player in Canada's nut trade. He has been successful in establishing and expanding Balcorp Ltd., his privately owned international marketer of nuts and other food products, with sales worth up to $100 million a year. But Chadha also holds a vital public position that is at the very heart of Canadian democracy. He is one of the five members of the Ottawa-based Security Intelligence Review Committee, which provides an external review of the operations of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. To work in that touchy arena means he is privy to whatever secrets our secret service has uncovered. That requires top security clearance, which in turn demands a drum-tight oath of allegiance. Thus he is entitled to the title "Honourable," and to the initials P.C. after his name, denoting that he is a member of the Queen's Privy Council of Canada, and has taken the same oath as ministers of the Crown. At the same time, Chadha is rightly concerned about how much still has to be done in Canada to achieve fair representation of different communities in different sectors, whether it's public service, government, politics or corporate.

This article focuses on the number of Canadians who are fans of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (Nascar). Mucker Chambers from Saint John, N.B., made the 12-hour pilgrimage to the Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. With the start of the race less than 12 hours away, there didn't seem much point in sleeping. Up went their Canadian flag. It would be "awesome" if NASCAR came to Canada, Chambers says. "I mean these guys take our hockey players, right? Why not bring the racing to us?" A lot of Canadian NASCAR fans have the same thing on their minds, wondering when the continent's premier stock-car racers will head north. Because right now NASCAR, firing on all cylinders, wants to grow the Canadian market. Landing a Nextel Cup event, NASCAR's premier series, is a long shot. But the Busch Series, the No. 2 circuit in the U.S., is looking a lot more promising. NASCAR oversees three national series: Nextel, Busch and another called Craftsman, for trucks. In March, Busch staged a race in Mexico City, the first NASCAR-sanctioned contest outside the United States that counted toward its driver championship. "I don't know why the hell we don't race in Canada," says Rusty Wallace, the veteran Nextel driver for the No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge. "We're already at Michigan International Speedway." So, in Canada by when? "Oh boy," sighs Robbie Weiss, NASCAR's Los Angeles–based managing director of international operations. "Hard to say. You'd like to think by 2007." NASCAR's Nextel Cup calendar is packed, though, and Canada's window of opportunity, because of the weather, is tight: only June, July and August. In Canada, NASCAR is the No. 1 televised motorsport. This year's Daytona 500, the Super Bowl of stock-car racing, drew an average of 506,000 viewers per minute on The Sports Network, more than double the 240,000 who watched when TSN last televised the contest two years ago.

Profiles Paul Whitney Lackenbauer, a doctoral student at the University of Calgary in Alberta. His interest in Canadian history and aboriginal rights; Family background in Ontario; Scholarship awards.

The article describes the return of Roméo Dallaire's return to Rwanda ten years after the genocide in 1994. In a 100-day period, Hutu extremists massacred some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus before rebel Tutsi forces of the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) emerged victorious. The bloodbath has continued to haunt the Canadian military officer, who was part of the UN peackeeping forces. But in April, Dallaire returned to Rwanda with a film crew from White Pine Pictures to mark the 10th anniversary of the slaughter. The resulting documentary, Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire, had its world premiere last week at the Toronto International Film Festival.

This is an article that focuses on the last minute campaign efforts of Canadian politicians prior to elections in 2004. Media polling stops in a campaign's last days. As the campaign entered its final weekend, Stephen Harper picked up the phone and made some calls. Paul Martin's Liberal campaign, almost devoid of any project the average Canadian voter could identify, was based on warning that Conservatives couldn't be trusted. Hours after Martin released his platform in his hometown of Windsor, Ont., near the end of the campaign's second week, he appeared again in front of reporters in Montreal to warn that Harper couldn't be trusted to protect a woman's right to choose on abortion. At mid-campaign, a nasty bit of gossip had begun circling among Chretien people in Ottawa: Martin's fate would depend on the campaign's outcome.

This is an article that focuses on the 25 Canadian students selected as the best and brightest. And if past performance is a decent predictor of what's to come, there's every reason to believe that Griffith could fulfill his dream. While pursuing an undergrad degree at the University of Ottawa and attending medical school at Dalhousie University, Allain found time to, among other things, work in a clinic on a Mi' kmaq reserve, help found a students' society aimed at promoting health outreach projects in Third World countries, and travel to Gambia, Guatemala and Cuba to attend to the underprivileged and afflicted, including HIV/AIDs patients. In 2002, Wong--who has garnered more than 10 academic awards, totalling almost $55,000--attended the International Space University in Pomona, Calif. Wong was the lone medical student in a group of 53 peers from 20 countries who collaborated on a project called HI-STAR--which stands for Health Improvements through Space Technologies and Resources. The doctoral candidate in geology at the University of New Brunswick's Planetary and Space Science Centre in Fredericton points out that there are plans to send a mission to Mars every two years over the next two decades. Fournier, who has worked as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada and polished off two master's degrees in the seven years since she graduated from law school at Université Laval, has been asked by the Canadian Council of Muslim Women and a Quebec women's rights group to write an official report opposing an initiative by the Canadian Society of Muslims to set up a family law court based on shariah law.

This article presents excerpts from the World War I diary of Canadian soldier John Teahan, with an introduction by his niece. John Teahan was my uncle. John Patrick Teahan was born in Southampton, Ont., in 1887, son of Dennis Teahan, who owned the Commercial Hotel. The family moved to Windsor, Ont., where his father opened a furniture store, which John was managing at the outbreak of the war. A lieutenant in the First Hussars (Reserve) prior to the war, he was one of the first men in the Windsor area to answer the call to colours on Aug. 14, 1914. He records drunkenness, incompetence, stupidity and waste with surprising detachment as he evolves from a keen recruit to a critical, cynical candidate for inglorious death in the mud, a fate he foresaw with resignation. The last entry we have was made just a week before his death on Oct. 9, 1916, near Thiepval, France. One shabby hand-sewn army pouch and a passenger list from the M.M.S. Metagama, which carried him home for recuperation, are all he left behind -- except for these remarkable diaries, which are more than an account of his war. They are the portrait of a man who could and did believe that the supreme sacrifice was worth making. When the trenches are quiet, time passes as slowly as a jail sentence. Cooped in a hole two or three feet wide, the men pass the time writing (letters short and few are the rule); reading (books are scarce and thumb worn); cards (no more than a couple of hands). It would be a relief to be attacked or even shelled.

Presents international news briefs as of February 3, 2003. Thoughts on the efforts of U.S. military pilots responsible for the friendly-fire deaths of four Canadian soldiers to apologize for their actions; Raid on a mosque in London, England by police who seized weapons, fake passports, and credit cards; Destruction of Palestinian shops by the Israeli army, which also fired missiles at a factory and refugee camp in Gaza; Cabinet talks between North and South Korea to defuse tensions between the two countries; Investigation of the deaths of professional soccer players in Italy and Great Britain from Lou Gehrig's disease.

Examines how the social trend of apocalyptic anxiety is affecting Canadian society in 1999. The general unease that most Canadians feel about the future, with Quebec as the confident exception; How Canadian government must respond to the fears held by Canadians; The mythic appeal of the year 2000; The desire of Canadians for greater control over more aspects of their life; The type of leadership they seek.

Presents several letters to the editor about articles appearing in a previous issue of "Maclean's." Response to the cover photograph of Karla Homolka on the March 21, 2005 issue; Comments on the article "People will tell us if they think we are crazy," appearing in the March 21 issue; Thoughts on the article "Light, bright and free"; Others.

This article is a letter written to musician Leonard Cohen, who is turning 70 years old and releasing a new album titled "Dear Heather." Immobile in Chinese silk, her dark hair in a retro coif, she had a loungy voice like Julie London, and cut the tempo of the lyrics in half, making young Leonard sound like old Leonard. We met again for the release of Ten New Songs in 2001, sat in your sweltering house in Montreal during an August heat wave. I dealt the Canada card, reminding you that, with Trudeau gone, you're the last cool international icon among your generation of Canadians--someone we'll forever associate with a Canada when everything seemed possible, when a bohemian intellectual could be prime minister and a Montreal poet could be world famous. The two women on the album--Anjani Thomas and Sharon Robinson (your collaborator on Ten New Songs)--toured with you as backup singers in the '80s. Your music still makes its way into the world (Wim Wenders used two of your songs to deliver the epiphany at the end of his new film, Land of Plenty.).

This article focuses on violence and vandalism associated with anti-Semitism in Canada. By the time the kids return to school in the fall, the physical scars will be gone. The note taped to the religious school's front door claimed the attack was revenge for Israel's March 22 assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of Hamas in the Gaza strip. B' nai Brith Canada catalogued 584 incidents of anti-Semitic violence, vandalism and harassment across the country last year, a worrying 27 per cent increase from 2002. In Montreal, where the list of offences included a vandalized West Island synagogue, a swastika scratched on a rabbi's car, and mezuzahs--doorpost signs of faith--ripped from Jewish homes, some community leaders aren't shy about apportioning blame. The two 18-year-old men charged with arson in the Talmud Torah firebombing--Simon Zogheib and Sleiman Elmerhebi--are Canadian citizens of Lebanese origin, but reportedly Christian.

The article relates the author's first encounter, at age nine, with Norval Morrisseau, the Ojibway artist, who had come his parents' home in Cochenour, Ontario to talk about selling his paintings. This would have been about eight years after Morrisseau's first gallery show in Toronto, in 1962, caused a sensation in the big-city art scene, and three since he had earned even wider popular acclaim for a huge mural executed at Expo 67. My parents bought two paintings, one of a group of loons and the other of a finned creature from Ojibway legend, part human, part fish. Up there in the Red Lake district, where he first painted and peddled his work, his bold acrylics were quite common in ordinary homes. The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa is planning a major retrospective of his paintings for early 2006. It's doubtful Morrisseau will be able to attend the opening: now in his early 70s, he lives in a nursing home in Nanaimo, B.C., suffering from Parkinson's disease, and no longer able to paint. Few living Canadian artists would even be considered for such an exhibition. But for an Aboriginal painter to be singled out for this career-capping treatment is especially remarkable. His painting is an indispensable link between the old ways of Aboriginal art and the entry of contemporary Native artists into the world of collectors and critics. The clashing religious influences of Morrisseau's grandparents play out in some of his most powerful work as a struggle to reconcile Christian and Ojibway beliefs.

This article presents a profile of film director Norman Jewison. In an early scene of "The Statement," Pierre Brossard, an aging war criminal played by Sir Michael Caine, is pursued along a winding mountain road through the South of France in what must be one of the slowest car chases in the history of cinema. In a movie universe where history has been reduced to a flashy continuum of special effects stretching from Middle Earth to the Matrix, there's something absurd about the notion of two grumpy old men figuring out how to get a body from A to B in a film about a washed-up Fascist fugitive in France. Jewison is Canada's living Hollywood legend, a survivor from the same septuagenarian vintage as Clint Eastwood, Robert Altman and Mike Nichols--a small group of old masters still making movies.Kennedy was referring to Jewison's "In the Heat of the Night," a racial drama that won five Oscars within a week of Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968, and two months before Kennedy's own. Now, with "The Statement" --based on Brian Moore's 1995 novel, and adapted by Ronald Harwood (The Pianist)--Jewison has finally directed his first Canadian production.

Discusses a poll which shows that though a majority of Canadians approve of the United States' war on terrorism in Afghanistan, only 23 percent favor sending Canadian troops directly into battle. View that terrorists dislike Americans, not Canadians; Support of Canadian Forces in the Afghan conflict in a peace-keeping role; Percentage of Canadians who believe that a national terrorist attack is likely; Percentage of Canadians who are prepared to surrender some personal freedoms to counter terrorism.

Discusses the crash of EgyptAir flight 990 off of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts on October 31, 1999. Confusion and controversy over what caused the accident; Details of the Canadian victims of the crash; Comments on the unusual descent of the airplane into the sea.

Presents an excerpt from the book `Yankee Doodle Dandee: Brian Mulroney and the American Agenda,' by Marci McDonald, about Canada's participation in the air offensive during the Persian Gulf War. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's visit to United States President George Bush's family compound in Maine; Mulroney's commitment of Canadian troops to a foreign conflict without parliamentary approval.

Discusses the `Maclean's'/CTV poll by Decima Research, an annual report on the national mood of Canada. How computer technology is changing the way Canadians live, work and think; Number of households that have a computer; The most frequent users; How children seem more comfortable with the new technologies.

The author discusses the popularity of U.S. President Barack Obama in Canada and says that his approval rating in Canada is higher than it is in the U.S. Most Canadians believe Obama's policies will be good for Canada. However, they are concerned that he may create protectionist policies for the U.S. economy which could restrict trade with Canada.

This article focuses on past news stories of 2004 that were reported in Maclean's. For most of the past year, Vancouver Bureau Chief Ken MacQueen has been offering his picks and pans from the weekly revue of people and events. Championed technology as U.S. prez, yet sent just two emails while in office. Ponytail wagging the dog belongs to Chuck Cadman, hirsute Independent and victims' rights champion from Surrey, B.C. His vote can topple government. Cartoonist Garry Trudeau cut teeth on Vietnam, now provides--on America's funny pages--brutally honest view of Iraq war. Danish sailors plant national flag on desolate Hans Island, in Canadian-claimed High Arctic--a region Alfonso Gagliano neglected to plaster with Maple Leaves during sponsorship debacle.

Discusses how Sir Christopher Ondaatje will keep his Canadian citizenship Not that long ago, but before he was disgraced, Conrad Black went to war with Jean Chrétien over the right of Canadians to accept British titles. Black became Lord Black of Crossharbour, but not before renouncing his Canadian citizenship. Two years later, another Canadian financier who writes books and ran a Toronto publishing house (just like Black) was given a knighthood, but instead of a public shootout, nobody said a word and there has been no problem about him remaining Canadian. His name is Ondaatje, now Sir Philip Christopher Ondaatje, and since retiring from his Bay Street brokerage (for the second time) in 1995, he has become one of England's most generous philanthropists. When I dropped in recently to see him at his luxurious Sloane Square flat, he told me the full story, which makes it very clear that the former prime minister had it in for Black long before he was publicly disgraced over his alleged corporate shenanigans.

Presents letters to the editor. Views that Canadians have been arrogant and self-important against Americans; Disagreement with the bias toward Toronto as revealed in the article "The joys of puck fever"; View that cosmetic surgery has gone too far; Other letters.

The article focuses on the trend toward lower voter turnout in Canada. To combat increased cynicism about elections, governments and politicians, elected officials are proposing a variety of measures to bring voters to the polls. New Brunswick has launched a commission to investigate replacing their winner-take-all elections with a system of proportional representation. British Columbia has struck a constituent assembly made up of randomly selected citizens to analyze electoral reform, with the promise of a binding referendum on their recommendations in 2005. These initiatives reflect a growing alarm over voters' progressive disengagement, but each one addresses an isolated part of the problem. But if you look below simple patterns of voter turnout to the underlying attitudinal forces driving this behaviour, the picture is even more frightening. It suggests such simple and draconian measures, in isolation, likely would not solve the larger problem of citizen alienation, and could even make matters worse. When electors cease to go to the polls, it weakens the foundations of democracy because they are tacitly saying: the individual has little impact on, or say in, our national affairs; the welfare of the collective has little bearing on individual well-being; and individual well-being can flourish (or flounder) independent of decisions initiated through legislative democracy. Because the erosion of our democratic ethos has been more wholesale than incremental, any effort to reform the system (and re-energize the role of voting and government in civic culture) must begin with two guiding principles. Changes must be designed to (a) bring citizens in closer contact with one another and their elected leaders, and (b) provide tangible evidence that the average Canadian has both a say and a stake in the political process.

The Dominion Institute is compiling a digital archive of memories and memorabilia from war veterans across Canada. One veteran, Edna Wilson, spent the final year of the Second World War working as an air force clerk in London. Wilson, who is 81 and lives in Ottawa, contributed the old photos on these pages as well as a letter she sent her older sister, Blanche, the day after celebrating the end of the war in Europe. Some of that letter, detailing the activity in London on Victory in Europe night, is excerpted here.

The roots of Don Chapman's family tree reach far back into Canadian history. Chapman's birth certificate shows he was born in Vancouver in 1954, and although he has lived in the U.S. since he was a toddler, he never swore an oath of allegiance there or renounced his Canadian citizenship. Nevertheless, in Ottawa's eyes, because his parents became naturalized Americans in 1961, Chapman too is an American. He's been lobbying for the last five years to reclaim the citizenship of what he feels deep in his bones is his home and native land -- and calls Ottawa's stance not just bizarre but a violation of his human rights. Blame the Canadian Citizenship Act of 1947. The act, written in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, was a product of its time. Like the laws of many other countries, it did not allow for dual citizenship. It also reflected the paternalistic attitudes of the day, declaring that if the "responsible parent" -- usually the father -- emigrated and acquired other citizenship, his underaged children also acquired that citizenship. In December, Alliance MP John Reynolds, whose British Columbia riding includes Gibsons, introduced a private members bill, C-343, to make it easier for people like Chapman to re-acquire their Canadian citizenship. And this week, Chapman will testify in Ottawa before the House standing committee on citizenship and immigration to make his pitch for changes to Bill C-18. Resigned or not, he vows to keep lobbying.

Focuses on the reactions of Americans to the deaths of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan. Wait of U.S. President George W. Bush before making a statement about Canada's war dead; Way that U.S. crowds booed the Canadian national anthem before a sporting event; Lack of knowledge of Americans about Canada.

Focuses on the efforts of Public Service Alliance of Canada president Nycole Turmel to end a contract dispute after Canadian politicians voted to give themselves a substantial pay raise. Reasons for the dispute between Canadian public service employees and the federal government; Details of a study which reports that government employees earn higher salaries than private sector employees; Biographical details.

Profiles Canadian scientist Charles Best, whose efforts eventually led to the discovery of insulin. Comments of Best on scientific discovery; Why he injected himself with insulin to prove that it wasn't poison; Loyalty to Canada.

Focuses on the increase in gasoline and oil prices as of August 1999. Economic benefits for oil industries; Drawbacks for Canadian consumers with their use of natural gasoline to heat homes; Possible effects of weather; The price increase as a result of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries' (OPEC) decision to raise oil prices by cutting production; History of changes in the gasoline industry; Comments from homeowners.

Presents the results of the 1996 Maclean's/CBC year-end poll regarding Canadian views toward business. Corporate layoffs; Payments to corporate executives; Corporate responsibility; Engines of economic renewal; Concerns about unemployment.

The article focuses on the exit of American media from the Canadian market. "Time" magazine announced that it is closing its Canadian news agencies, leaving only the "New York Times" and the "Washington Post" as major American press agencies in Canada. Christopher Dornan, Carleton University journalism program director, says that the exit of foreign news agencies could be a good thing, as most of the news that the world receives will be reported by Canadians.

The article profiles Alberta Premier Ralph Klein, who won every election he ever fought and was widely admired by fiscal hawks and social doves. Klein was occasionally touted as a potential leader of Canada's federal Conservative party. Klein has launched a new national program. Starting next year, the Alberta Centennial Scholarships Program will subsidize the post-secondary education costs of 325 students across Canada, 25 from every province and territory, offering $2,005 to each student. As national programs go, it is a modest one. But unlike Ottawa's mega-billion-dollar health, welfare and education transfer programs, Klein's has no catches. The provinces and territories decide who gets the scholarships.

Presents an interview with Lorne Calvert, the premier of Saskatchewan in Canada. Concerns of Saskatchewan about the equalization program; Parts of the program that need to be changed; Economy of Saskatchewan; His thoughts on the television program "Corner Gas."

Focuses on the performance of the Canadian ice hockey players at the world junior championships. How these Canadian teenagers were playing for their place in history in Grand Forks, North Dakota; Role of coach Brent Sutter; Attitude of the team, which was undefeated and unchallenged; The resurgence of Canadian hockey; Overview of the players; Highlights of the game; Sutter's focus on team play and sacrifice.

Comments on the generosity of Canadians in the wake of the tsunami in Southeast Asia. Ways that Canadians from all walks of life and all regions helped in the effort; Role of charitable organizations, including UNICEF; Comments of executives at relief agencies; Organized fundraising events; Personal donations.

This article focuses on Canadian politician Jack Layton and the book he has written in light of upcoming elections. There must be an election in the air. Most Canadians, no fools, pay little attention to political leaders between elections. Over the next few days, the nation's bookshops should be receiving copies of Speaking Out: Ideas that Work for Canadians. Layton, the newish New Democrat leader, is the author. Because government has been serving "corporate interests"--a term Layton uses a lot--instead of ordinary people. Layton says his son's asthma helped Layton learn about failures in environmental protection and health care. Layton's book is full of detail, sometimes numbingly so. Very few people who have never voted NDP will be swayed by Layton's book.