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This article explores the restrictive policies being implemented by provincial leaders in Canada that limit the rights of trans youth, with a focus on the experiences of two trans youth, Jasper and Samantha, and their families in Alberta. These policies require parental notification and consent for name and pronoun changes in schools, and propose a ban on gender-affirming hormones and surgeries for those under 16. Medical groups have criticized these policies, viewing them as a rollback of rights for trans youth. The article also discusses the rise of anti-trans legislation in other provinces, such as New Brunswick and Saskatchewan, and highlights the negative impact of these policies on transgender youth, including increased bullying and discrimination. It emphasizes the importance of support and advocacy for transgender rights. [Extracted from the article]

Explains how Canada's pulp and paper makers have grown fat on cheap trees, cheap power and political largesse, and describes how to make them more competitive in the 90s. Niche marketing; Embracing new technologies; Diversification; Modernization; Environmental pressure; What is weakening the industry; Integration; Globalization; Conservation.

The article discusses the collapse of the asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market in Canada. One company holding frozen ABCP wants the government to investigate ABCP dealers, including Coventree Inc. A memorandum issued to dealers by Coventree on July 24, 2007 may have provided material information investors say should have been shared with them.

The article discusses the impact of the crisis in asset-backed commercial paper financing on Baffinland Iron Mines Corp., a Canadian company that sought short-term financing through the investments. Factors leading to the collapse of the Canadian commercial paper market are discussed, including lack of transparency and the inability of credit rating agencies to evaluate the assets.

Cell and Gene Therapy - Canada's Chance To Be a Global Leader in Life Sciences Canada is well on the way to becoming a global leader in the commercialization, investment, and manufacturing of cell and gene therapies. Ongoing investments within Canada In 2023, Novartis has renewed its commitment and investment within Canada with the launch of two cutting-edge new offices. "We've had strong support from the Canadian ALS community, who fiercely advocate for expedited review of, and access to, treatments for ALS", said Chris Aiello, General Manager and Head of Canada at Amylyx. Why Advancing IDEA Is Good for Canada's Life Sciences Sector To enhance Canada's life sciences sector, embedding inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) is crucial for fostering innovation and attracting talent. [Extracted from the article]

Focuses on John Weaver, president and chief executive officer of Abitibi-Consolidated, the world's largest newsprint producer. Problems that have hit the industry; Biographical information; His short term and long term plans for the Canadian company. INSET: From mills to millstones.

The menu includes a mix of Spanish snacks (tinned conservas of mussels, whelks, razor clams and P.E.I. bluefin tuna, above) and French-influenced fine dining (lobster salpicón with white asparagus and lobster roe, below right) MONTREAL MASTARD Low-key luxury is the thing at chef Simon Mathys's delightful (and affordable) restaurant The room, though friendly, comfortable and filled with happy locals from Montreal's Rosemont neighbourhood, was built on the cheap; the feel of the place, in the words of one review, is "convivial et sans fla-fla", which is pretty much right. Restaurant Pearl Morissette The exquisite ingredients at this Niagara winery restaurant are grown on-site Daniel Hadida and Eric Robertson opened their ambitious Niagara wine-region restaurant in November of 2017. 944 Queen Street West, Toronto primeseafoodpalace.ca A trip to Matty Matheson's Toronto restaurant is all about indulgence: a plate of rosy-rare 12-ounce prime rib, for example, with fluffy Yorkshire pudding and a smoky carrot-goat cheese tart (top right), or cornmeal waffles with smoked trout and pops of cured roe (bottom middle) OTTAWA Supply & Demand A happy neighbourhood bistro with spectacular seafood Supply & Demand is near the top of my list of fantasy neighbourhood restaurants - "fantasy" at least in some part because it's nowhere near my actual home. BROUGHT TO YOU BY SANPELLEGRINO It's funny what happens when you can't eat in restaurants for a couple of years. [Extracted from the article]

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]

The article presents information on the use of plastics in food packaging in Canada. A 2008 study by research firm Boustead and Associates shows that the paper bags and compostable plastic bags used more energy, water and fossil fuel than traditional polyethylene plastic bags. It is stated that presently, plastic packaging accounts for an estimated 10 percent of the Canadian household waste stream.

The article presents a guide to packaging machinery, equipment, supplies and services companies in Canada, categorized according to the products or services they offer. Adhesive Application Systems Inc. and Capmatic Ltd. offer adhesives. Curwood Packaging (Canada) Ltd. offers bacon packages. Firing Industries Ltd. and Krones Inc. offer bag emptying machines.

Discusses Canada's new federal and provincial crackdown on pollution caused by pulp and paper mills. Comments by environmentalists and paper industry executives; Pollutants such as organochlorines, furans, and dioxins; Cost of complying with the new regulations; Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc.; Friends of the Athabasca (Athabasca, Alta.).

Reports on the soaring cost of paper prices in Canada. Increasingly bitter struggle between cash-strapped publishers and the pulp-and-paper industry that supplies them; Impact of rising paper prices on readers; Decline in number of trees to be harvested; No sign of any newsprint supplies emerging to relieve the pressure on publishers.

The article discusses that a financial crisis in Canada has begun because non-bank asset-backed commercial paper has become illiquid in the amount of about $7 billion Canadian dollars. Investors are unable to get their money out for use causing major write-downs. No new investors are stepping up to allow rollover to occur and more paper to be issued.

Examines Canada's most unusual paper shuffle, involving New Brunswick's Irving family and their newspapers, `Telegraph Journal' and `Evening Times Globe.' Brothers Jack, Arthur and J.K. Irving; Valerie Millen, general manager, hired to halt the papers' financial slide and make them better; Editor Neil Reynolds; Details; The effect on the province of New Brunswick. INSETS: No business too big or too small (Irving family businesses);All the news that's fit to revile.

Profiles Canadian newspaper publishers David Black and Conrad Black. The competition between the two; How each got his start in the newspaper business; Careers of both; Biographical information.

The article mentions the popularity of the luxurious wool cashmere which comes from the Asian mountain goat, chyangra. Karl Spilhaus, president of the Boston-based Cashmere and Camel Hair Manufacturers Institute, says "It's probably the finest animal fibre that's really in commercial production. It is also a finite resource--less than 20,000 tons annually--so you can't find a bargain in cashmere, any more than you could in gold or diamonds." The wool also makes great men's clothing. "The most common items are the cashmere sweater, the cashmere scarf and the cashmere sports blazer," says Larry Rosen, chairman and CEO of Canadian men's wear retailer Harry Rosen. Cashmere is so universally associated with luxury that it seems marketers will try to tie any product in with its allure. In 1999, Canadian paint company Sico Inc. launched a high-end interior latex line called Cashmere. Last year, Scott Paper launched a new toilet paper called Cashmere from Cottonelle. The company commissioned eight Canadian designers to come up with the "White Cashmere" collection for the launch of the toilet paper last August, their extravagant one-off runway creations got plenty of attention. Scott Paper now plans to change its brand name from Cottonelle to Cashmere by 2007. Toronto designer Tam Boyko of Heaven Cashmere was one of the contributing designers. Her shawl-collared women's wrap cardigan is the only piece from last year's White Cashmere collection that's available for sale.

The article examines the national mood of Canadians as revealed by the election in 2021. Topics discussed include the problems facing Canadians such as school safety and continuity, business lockdowns and vaccine deployment, opinion of the public about the government's approach to the vaccine efforts and Indigenous issues, and claims of Mike Colledge of Ipsos Public Affairs Canada that the government postponed addressing such issues as racism and climate change during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The article discusses several issues regarding Canada's working class, described as once undervalued and politically silent group, and their efforts to fight back during the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics covered include why the working class and their interests do not get much attention, the debate over paid sick leave and how social inequality has become more evident during the pandemic.

The article describes the journey of several Quebec adventurers, including Guillaume Moreau, Nicolas Roulx and Jacob Racine, that if completed, would set a new standard for land crossings of Canada, as of 2021. Topics covered include the setbacks that the group had not anticipated when they started planning the adventure in 2018, the danger with the group's planned route along Back River and the expected arrival of the adventurers in Black Lake, Saskatchewan.

The article examines the opioid crisis in Canada which killed 207 Canadians from July 11 to 17, 2020. Topics discussed include the emergence of Ontario as the state with the highest number of overdose deaths, death of Christopher Powell-Irving in Ontario due to the fentanyl he consumed on July 11, and efforts of Tammy Gould to advocate for a Canadian equivalent of Casey's Law in the U.S. that allows parents to seek court-ordered drug treatment for their adult children.

The article discusses the impact of school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic on education in Canada. Topics covered include studies showing that Canadian students are falling behind their global peers due to a mounting learning gaps and lagging response, the emergence of a shadow education system, and inadequate efforts to correct inequities.

The article offers information on the environmental initiatives of Canadian companies that made it to the 2010 Green 30 list of "Canadian Business" magazine. Global human resources consulting and outsourcing firm Hewitt Associates compiled the information provided by the organizations. Highlighted are the key programs, practices, values, leadership behaviours, and actions that enabled the companies to earn high marks from their staff.

Focuses on Canadian paper company Abitibi, the world's largest newsprint producer. Background on the company, which traces its history through its six founding companies, primarily Abitibi-Price, Stone Consolidated and Donohue; Comments of Chief Executive officer John Weaver; Financial details; Expansion of the company; Exports.

Discusses the possible results of a readership study of Canada's 'The Globe and Mail' and 'The National Post.' Marketing strategy of the 'Post's' publisher Conrad Black to give away free papers to boost subscriptions; Leak of readership numbers from the Newspaper Audience Databank (NASbank) that the 'Globe's' readership numbers are down; Speculation about whether the owners of the 'Globe' will sell.

Focuses on Canada's dominant newspaper owner CanWest Global Communications Corp. and the role of president and chief executive officer Leonard Asper and founder and executive chairman Izzy Asper. Scrutiny they are receiving based on the question of what they will do with the assets; Goals of the media company, which has been a family enterprise; Issue of debt; Controversy surrounding its plan to publish centrally written editorials in the major Southam papers.

The article lists the top 30 Canadian companies according to employee perceptions of their environmentally-minded programs and strategies, including the recruitment firm Arrow Professional Services, Chubb Insurance Co. of Canada, and digital health marketing company Klick Inc.

Presents information on the performance of stocks in the paper and forest products industry in 2001 in Canada. Discussion of how real consumption of pulp and paper products has continued to fall since January 2001; Concern that profits in the industry could sink even further; Mention of Slocan Forest Products Ltd.; Performance of Bowater Inc.

The article examines the increasing home prices and prevalence of real estate bidding in Canadian towns in 2021. Topics discussed include the role of low interest rates, family savings and rise of remote work in the record resale activity and prices in the country, importance of the sustainable housing market to the post-pandemic recovery of Canada, and the reluctance of older Canadians to sell their houses and downsize into supportive living and condominium complexes.

The article discusses how Canada responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in comparison with the efforts of Great Britain and United States. Topics covered include the issues with the country's federal drug policy, citing the pharmaceutical industry's delays in providing treatment, Ottawa's failure in dealing with the pandemic and the lessons of the pandemic.

The article describes the how the COVID-19 pandemic started and developed. Topics covered include the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China, how Canada handled the beginning of the pandemic and the World Health Organization's declaration of public health emergency of international concern on January 30, 2020. It also describes how the coronavirus causing COVID-19 moved around the world.

Evaluates the paper and forest products industries in Canada as of July 8, 2002. Topic of stock prices in the industries; Mention of the Toronto Stock Exchange Paper and Forest Index; Suggestion that Domtar Inc, a producer of paper, might present fewer risks for investors; Discussion of the lumber industry.

This article presents the author's views on Canada's asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) trusts. ABCPs are short-term papers for funding investments in longer-term assets. The author reflects on problems with Canadian ABCP trusts in the frozen market and why investors are angry and want to know who to blame for their losses. The author also notes the importance of confidence in Canada's financial system.

Reports on the burgeoning newspaper war between the `The Globe and Mail' and the `National Post' in Canada. Daily circulation of the newspapers; How the fallout from the battle will affect the entire industry and the standards it uses to measure success; How other competitors have made changes at their newspapers. INSET: The Opinionated Man of the `Globe'.

The article reports on the "Globe and Mail," a Canadian newspaper. At issue is a re-design of the newspaper due to be released in the fall of 2010. A number of topics pertaining to the newspaper business are examined including the impact of the global financial crisis on advertising sales, economic problems at the "New York Times" and the differences between Canadian and U.S. newspapers.

Brief profiles of government agencies, corporations, and organizations that have integrated green business characteristics into their management structure are presented. The Town of Banff, Alberta, the pharmaceutical company Bayer Inc., and the architecture firm Busby, Perkins & Will Inc. are several of the employers described. Innovations including clean energy investment, recycling and environmentally responsible facilities management systems are explained.

This article focuses on federal funding of scientific research in Canada and how scientists are reacting to rejection of research grants. Michel Desjardins, who holds a Canada Research Chair in cellular microbiology at the Université de Montréal, applied for a research grant from Genome Canada, the arms-length foundation that since 2000 has provided most of the federal money in Canada that goes toward genetic research. In a previous competition, Genome Canada had granted him money for projects that led to research papers in two prestigious journals, Cell and Nature. Genome Canada funds only half the cost of a research project. It requires that researchers identify other agencies or private-sector donors willing to pay the other half. Desjardins' tuberculosis project had an $8-million budget, so he needed $4 million from Genome Canada. Near the end of April, Genome Canada told Desjardins his project had been rejected. He never had a chance to defend his science in front of other scientists. To Desjardins, this was a fundamental breakdown in the doctrine of "peer review," by which scientists decide among themselves which of their colleagues should have a project funded or a paper published. Biomedical researchers in Canada are a tightly knit community. It didn't take long for rejected scientists to find one another and compare notes. In a series of interviews with Maclean's, more than a dozen researchers across the country depicted Genome Canada as an organization that has become so concerned about demonstrating sound book-keeping that it is failing to promote the best science. Serious complaints are also being levelled by scientists who survived the co-funding exam and who are still in the running for big Genome Canada grants.

This article presents an adapted excerpt from the book "Here Be Dragons," by Peter C. Newman about Conrad Black. This adapted excerpt describes Newman s three-decade-long relationship with Lord Black of Crossharbour, who excelled at being all three. That was the day the music died for Canada's poster boy tycoon, and some of it died within me, because I was there at the creation. We first met when he returned to Toronto from Quebec in 1974. Black was 29, had earned a law degree from Laval, had written an unusually perceptive master's thesis on Quebec premier Maurice Duplessis and, with his partners Peter White and David Radler, had purchased the Sherbrooke Record for $20,000. Black's downfall dates back to the fall of 1993, when he engaged in a feud with Rupert Murdoch, the pragmatic proprietor of the Times, who had reduced his paper's cover price to challenge the Telegraph's then heady circulation lead. Conrad's responsibility for what appeared to be a gross misappropriation of corporate funds remained to be proven.

The article reports on the move by the Canadian government to enforce a lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the country. Also cited are the possible effects of the pandemic to individual rights, personal privacy, the free market, and the mental health of Canadians, and the experience of patient Jerilyn Gabruck as example.

The article focuses on the death of Shekoufeh Choupannejad and her daughters, Saba Saadat and Sara Saadat in the crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 on January 8, 2020. Topics covered include the two-week vacation of Shekoufeh in Tehran, Iran with her daughters, story of their immigration to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2011, background of the family and how Abbas Saadat said goodbye to his family before the crash of Flight 752.

The article looks at the changes made to public washroom design in Canada due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics discussed include the increasing preference for cleanliness in public facilities according to HCMA managing partner Darryl Condon, significance of the guidelines on improving indoor air, ventilation and filtration issued by the Canadian government, and the trend toward universal washrooms ideal for all genders.

In this article the author surveys the Canadian timber industry as it stood in early 2008. A number of experts state that the market for wood and paper products is poor and that investment in timber stocks would be unwise. The purchase of tracts of trees by large institutional investors is described. Some timber stocks and mutual funds are recommended.

Examines how proposed social program reforms in Ottawa are sparking a storm of controversy. Human Resources Minister Lloyd Axworthy's 89-page discussion paper which calls for sweeping changes in several critical areas; Dissension within Liberal ranks about the scope of the changes that threatens to under mine Axworthy; Brouhaha over leaked cabinet briefing note to `The Toronto Star'; Debate over unemployment insurance and more. INSET: Rewriting the rule book.

Examines the reasons for the current downturn in Canada's forest products industry. Threat to Canada's economy; Plans to shut down the Spruce Falls Paper and Power Co. in Kapuskasing, Ont.; Downturn in Quebec, Ont., the Atlantic provinces, and British Columbia; Spending cuts and environmental standards; De-inking plants; Newsprint maker, Abitibi-Price Inc. of Toronto; Noranda Forest Inc. of Toronto; More.

The article discusses investigation into the Canadian Border Services Agency's (CBSA) handling of refugee claimant cases, focusing on the organization's conduct regarding immigrants who died in its custody. Topics include the suicide of deported hotel maid Lucia Vega Jimenez, the death of illegal immigrant and convicted fraudster Maxamillion Akamai, and allegations that the CBSA released Akamai in order to avoid dealing with his imminent death.

The article examines why Canadian legislators assign the majority of securities enforcement and regulation to self-regulatory organizations (SROs) and ad hoc committees. The problem of asset-backed commercial paper being linked to poor investments that required individuals to seek short-term loans is discussed. It is also attested that the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is guilty of mistreating investors due to conflicts of interest.

The article reports on a bioactive paper being designed in Canada, which would help protect humans from bacteria and viruses. The Sentinel Bioactive Paper Network consists of Canadian universities, government and business partners researching the antibacterial product. The hope is for a paper that can detect, warn and destroy bacteria upon contact. Data from the Public Health Agency of Canada is provided and network director Bob Pelton quoted.

Outlines a controversial chain of events surrounding the early retirement of Prem Fry, an award-winning Calgary professor. Her impressive list of appointments and achievements in the highly competitive world of academia; Her sudden departure from her job at the University of Calgary; Series of disturbing questions that hang over her academic record and University of Calgary president Murray Fraser's handling of her departure.

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

The article discusses the publication's criminal investigation into intimate-partner violence in Canada. Topics include an increase in domestic homicide rates as of 2019 despite a decline in rates of homicide, domestic violence and dating violence in Canada since 2009, the publication's report of a lack in concern for the human rights and safety of women and children in Canada, and the economic impact of domestic violence.