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Offers information about Cascades Inc., a paper company that supports paper recycling programs in Kingsey Falls, Quebec.

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.

There are many good reasons why the St-Maurice River remains a secret. For decades, the powerful Quebec waterway, which flows into the St. Lawrence halfway between Montreal and Quebec City, has been a toxic-waste disposal site. Aluminum smelters, paper mills and other heavy industry placed Shawinigan and Trois-Rivieres among the wealthiest cities in Canada 50 years ago, but also used the river as a workhorse--to float logs, cool down machines, produce power and "lose" waste. The St-Maurice has been cleaned up, and is now yours to explore and enjoy. In Shawinigan, make sure to visit La Cite de l' energie, a hands-on history and technology museum, and climb to its 115-m-high observatory, built on top of a discarded hydro tower.

Since its 1947 inception, the Hockey News has been essential reading for hard-core fans. Ken McKenzie, its co-founder and long-time publisher, died in an Ontario hospital. His son, John, a New York-based correspondent with ABC News, wrote this tribute to his father and his achievements. Ken McKenzie--along with Will Cote--started the Hockey News in 1947, and the paper that came to be known as the bible of hockey. After the Second World War, Ken, who grew up in Winnipeg, moved to Montreal, where he got a job as a sportswriter for the Gazette. Within months, he approached the president of the National Hockey League, Clarence Campbell, and suggested that the league needed a full-time publicity director. Campbell gave him the job, and more. For Ken, whose father had died in his early 50s, Campbell became a surrogate parent. Campbell supported my father's dream of starting a newspaper devoted exclusively to hockey. There is a picture of my father taken at his induction in the Hockey Hall of Fame, which shows him at the podium, arms outstretched, fists clenched, wearing this big, beautiful smile.

Focuses on efforts of Gilbert Lavoie and his paper `La Soleil' to help people find jobs in Quebec. Launching of a jobs program, with employment clinics; Free postings of jobs for four weeks.