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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.

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.).

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

Presents Canadian business news for December 7, 1998. SkyDome Corp.'s filing for court protection from its creditors; The resignation of two directors from the board of Livent Inc., the Toronto-based live theater company that has filed for bankruptcy protection; United States employment growth compared to Canada's between 1889 and 1997; Provincial securities administrators as close to reaching an agreement on a national system of securities; New York-based International Paper to purchase Union Camp Corp.

Mentions 'Sitting Pretty: The History of the Toilet,' an exhibit at the West Parry Sound District Museum in Northern Ontario. Debate concerning how to hang toilet paper; Popularity of the exhibit.

The article offers the author's facetious views about the changed design of the Canadian $20 bill as of February 2013. Topics include how the banknotes are printed on a polymer material rather than paper, the Bank of Canada's deputy governor Tiff Macklem, and concerns that the leaf depicted on the notes is a Norway maple leaf instead of a Canadian sugar maple leaf.

Examines the reasons why more than 35 Canadian firms have issued new shares recently to cash in on a sudden surge of interest in new share issues. Why investors are interested; What various companies will do with the money raised; Lenders' policis; Revival of stock trading among small Canadian investors; Concern about corporate earnings and cash flow; Petro-Canada stock; Montreal-based pulp-and-paper producer Domtar Inc.

Says the month-long strike that shut down most of the B.C. pulp-and-paper industry ended when the mills agreed to drop demands to abolish a floating holiday. The new contract includes a base wage increase of 6.5 percent over two years.

Advises that Thomson Newspapers Corp. put several of its daily papers in Canada up for sale as part of a restructuring plan. Aim of Dick Harrington, president and CEO of Thomson, to transform the company into a marketing and communications company; Names of newspapers on the block.

This article focuses on the news that a pulp mill was going bankrupt and how it would affect the community. Even though I work in New Brunswick--not exactly crime central in Canada--we've had our share of murderers, pedophiles and pot-carrying premiers. Since the province's economy is largely based on natural resources, I've edited my fair share of boom-and-bust stories from here and elsewhere. Stories about disgruntled forestry workers in northern New Brunswick replaced by mechanical harvesters and stories about angry protests over the closure of the cod fishery in Newfoundland. Along with the 400 direct jobs, economists predicted at least another 200 indirect jobs would shortly disappear. I envisioned people sitting at their kitchen tables, crunching numbers: the mortgage, car payment, groceries, electricity, Christmas presents, kids' clothing.

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.

Focuses on a deal between Canada's Southam Inc. and Sun Media Corp. Southam to buy `The Financial Post' from Sun Media; How both sides benefit from the deal; How it affects Canadian print journalism; Comments from the companies' executives.

The article looks at the polymer bills released by the Bank of Canada in 2011, discussing the public's initial disdain for the design and the discovery in 2013 of several counterfeit bills, despite the currency's anti-counterfeiting measures.

Discusses Saint John, N.B., residents' complaints about the sulphurous fumes emitted by the Irving Pulp and Paper Mill, owned by billionaire K.C. Irving and his family. Provincial Environment Minister Vaughn Blaney's call for closure of the plant; Measures to reduce the emissions; High unemployment and concern over jobs; Comments by residents and city and provincial officials.

Reports that Canadian forestry giant Abitibi-Consolidated will return to work in December of 1998 after a five month strike by the Communications, Energy, and Paperworkers Union. How the company hopes to regain customers; Percentage of the North American newsprint production that Abitibi-Consolidated was responsible for before the strike; What the union was able to get from the company.

Focuses on the decision of Conrad Black, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Hollinger International Inc., to sell a large number of newspapers and serial publications owned by his company. Speculation as to which papers are for sale; Effect of the decision on the company's stock price; Canadian companies that are expected to purchase local papers; Outlook for the Internet strategy of Hollinger.

Focuses on layoffs at the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC). Comments by Mike Sullivan of the Communications Energy and Paperworks Union of Canada; CBC president Robert Rabinovitch's plan to reshape the CBC; Plans to follow up layoffs with the integration of the CBC's new services; The effect on employee morale of Rabinovitch's opposition to new license conditions imposed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).

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.

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.

The changes have been anything but conservative at Canada's unabashedly right-wing national daily. After months of speculation that CanWest Global Communications Corp. was set to fold its perennially money-losing National Post, the paper was granted a reprieve. Ken Whyte, editor-in-chief, and Martin Newland, his deputy--the duo behind the Post's cheeky mixture of agenda-driven news, pointed commentary and unapologetic fluff, have left to pursue unspecified "opportunities." Leonard Asper, CanWest chief executive, announced a three-year plan to make the paper profitable and appointed his older brother David to oversee the flagship. Matthew Fraser, a media commentator and journalism professor with no previous management experience, was named editor-in-chief. More and more Post reporters have been showing up on TV screens, and the content of the chain's daily papers across the country has become increasingly standardized--a trend that seems sure to intensify as the company struggles to get out from under a $3.6-billion debt load.

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.

This article discusses how retail company Victoria's Secret may be destroying the habitat of the caribou in Canada in order to create its catalogs. Victoria's Secret, the U.S. purveyor of much bodacious lingerie, is struggling to assuage critics who accuse it of contributing to the demise in Canada of the threatened woodland caribou. Victoria's Secret prints and mails, on average, well over one million catalogues a day to promote its form-enhancing women's undergarments, sleepwear and clothing. But according to ForestEthics, a San Francisco-based environmental watchdog, about 25 percent of the paper in those catalogues comes from trees felled in Canada's virgin boreal forest, where the caribou live. Last fall, ForestEthics launched a cheeky ad campaign dubbed "Victoria's Dirty Secret." Featuring an arresting photo of a woman in a black merry widow wielding a chainsaw, it calls on the public to pressure the company to stop using paper from endangered forests, to use more recycled paper, and to stop publishing so many catalogues. Anthony Hebron, spokesman for Limited Brands, the Columbus, Ohio-based parent company of Victoria's Secret, says its catalogue practices are changing.

In the age of convergence, where fearsome local editors have taken a back seat to faceless corporate managers from out of town, the romantic good old days at the [Montreal Gazette[ are slipping fast into nostalgia, alongside the three-martini lunch, felt fedoras thrown on the ice at the Forum, and the let-them-deny-it approach to sensational copy. The paper became part of a megadeal that saw the Asper family's CanWest Global Communications Corp. of Winnipeg gain control of the Southam newspapers from media mogul Conrad Black. The Gazette was a building block of the fabled Montreal Anglo establishment which controlled much of Canada's economy, to say nothing of national politics, through most of the last two centuries. Journalists complain about the Aspers' bottom-line-driven style of management. The Gazette has been a special place since its inception. One of its backers was an American, Benjamin Franklin, and its first publisher was a Voltairean freethinker from France.

Reports that the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) reached an agreement with members of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union to end a six-week strike in April of 1999. Terms of the agreement; How the strike impacted CBC; Problems the public broadcaster has faced in recent times.

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]

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'.

Presents a letter written by the author to Conrad Black, Chairman of Southam Inc. on the company's plans to produce a national newspaper in Canada. Comments quoted from vice-president of editorial at Southam, Gord Fisher; Papers and circulations Southam already has; Comments from advertiser Ann Boden of McKim Media Group; Cautions from the author for Black.

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.

This article presents the first and last campus journalism awards as selected by the author. This year's finest campus newspaper in Canada, according to me, is Quartier Libre at the Université de Montréal. And since one of the runners-up is the Link, from neighbouring Concordia University, the one-member jury of the First (and Last) Back Page Campus Journalism Awards has decided to crown Montreal as the capital of campus journalism in Canada. Both papers achieve quality by doing something that hasn't occurred to most Canadian campus papers: they take their time. Several weeks ago on my weblog I asked for samples of Canadian campus newspapers. Student scribes across the country hurried to comply, and it's been great fun to read their work. At the University of Saskatchewan, Drew Larson shot an amazing cover photo of the Arcade Fire for the Sheaf: two musicians with faces tilted up, mouths open in identical Os. Today's campus papers have too many opinion columns by students who had nothing new to say. Nobody in Canada is doing anything in English to match Quartier Libre.

Focuses on the centennial of the 'Eganville Leader,' a family-owned newspaper that was founded by Patrick McHugh in Ontario. Operation of the publication by brothers Ron and Gerald Tracey; How the Tracey family obtained ownership of the newspaper in 1944; Outlook for the daily newspaper.

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.

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.

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.

This article focuses on how the Canadian media portrayed the different political candidates in the 2006 elections for Prime Minister. This year, Maclean's, in partnership with McGill University, put the assumption that facts are filtered through political bias to the test. Throughout the election campaign, McGill's Observatory on Media and Public Policy has monitored coverage in seven of the country's biggest and most influential papers. Most of the major papers dealt with news stories in the same relatively balanced way.

Cybéle Young, a Toronto sculptor who makes small Japanese paper constructions of everyday urban symbols, including T-shirts, fire hydrants, shoes, chairs and handbags--has come up with some playful titles for her pieces. In her solo show, "Toys that Linger," opening at Toronto's Prime Gallery on May 29, the artist (who makes most of her income from art fairs in the United States) is displaying these paper constructions as well as some small bronze sculptures that use the same iconography. Her fascination for all things little started as a child when she would build miniature farms with tiny tools. Today, her seven-year-old daughter Calder remains a huge inspiration. In fact, Young and her husband David named their child after the American sculptor Alexander Calder "more for his philosophy than his art," she explains.

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.

Reports on layoffs at newspapers in Canada as a result of a struggle by papers competing with the National Post to maintain circulation. Closure of 'Saturday Night' magazine.

Presents information on the plans of Canadian publisher Southam to launch a daily newspaper in 1998. Comments from Don Babick, President and Chief Operating Officer; Lack of hard information on the newspaper; Potential readers to receive little information until the paper is published; Key questions unanswered such as editorial tone, content and cost; Controversial nature of owner Conrad Black.

This article presents predictions for upcoming elections. British reporters covering Tony Blair's campaign in 2001 amused themselves by playing" battle-bus bingo": they wrote down Blair's favourite cliché phrases on strips of paper, paid a pound each to get into the contest, then each drew three strips of paper at random. Paul Martin rewarded this apple-cheeked British Columbia Liberal's bootlicking fealty with an appointment as the party's nominee in Burnaby-Douglas. Last week Peter Mansbridge's column announced that political leaders' tours are a waste of time, which is why the CBC will have its own bus travelling the country avoiding politicians. If Peter leads The National with more stories from the CBC bus than he does from Paul Martin's, Stephen Harper's and Jack Layton's, I'll buy him dinner.

Canada's two "national" newspapers have been in their war for more than four years now, and the damage lies on the landscape for all to see. It ranges from credibility on disputed readership numbers, to the list of former editors and owners, not to mention front-page story claims that put tabloid television to shame. "The National Post" used it first, but the "Globe" and "Mail" has recently put its version into production. Paul Wells and Andrew Coyne are two very bright guys -- I know, because I often turn to them for their analysis, wit and ability to cut through the nonsense that surrounds political life in Canada. But here they are, shot with Hollywood lighting and soft focus lenses, coming up with lines about their paper that would make some of their ad people blush. Before I go further, let me say that I know what they must have gone through when they were locked in a studio to do their part in their paper's war plan. Being in TV, I know these types of videotaped self-promotions: after hours of preparation, lighting tests, makeup brushes, and cameras rolling perfectly along little tracks, you finally start talking about your broadcast, your colleagues, your viewers. And with each take, you get encouraged by the production hangers-on to get looser, and more bold, in your claims. Pretty soon, you'll say almost anything just to get out of the room. And sure enough, that's what they end up using in the commercials

Comments on the goals of the so-called innovation agenda of Canada's Liberal government leader and industry minister, Allan Rock. Idea to move Canada from 15th to fifth place among the 30 members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in terms of spending on research and development; View of David Precaut, chief executive officer of iFormation Group, that the government is not acting innovatively.

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]

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]

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 article focuses on Karla Homolka, who is soon to be released from jail for her involvement in several murders. Outrage, fear, overreaction and -- let's admit it -- prurient fascination all rise to the surface each time the words "Karla Homolka" surface in the national conversation, each time her face smiles mockingly from our morning paper. The price of convicting Paul Bernardo for the murders of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy was Homolka's plea bargain, and we now know that price was sickeningly high. Videos that emerged after Homolka secured her deal in 1993 showed her not just participating but revelling in the torture of the two Ontario teenagers, plus the rape of a third woman. Those images, along with news that Homolka participated in the fatal drugging and rape of her own 15-year-old sister, Tammy, long ago laid ruin to the theory she'd been Bernardo's compliant victim, forced on pain of death to help him live out his monstrous fantasies. On July 5, 2005, Homolka will walk free from Joliette Institution north of Montreal, a relatively young woman at 35, having paid the debt society asked and completed almost nothing in the way of rehabilitation. The rumour mill is already churning. In varying degrees, the rumours are also based on misconceptions -- about Homolka, about the law, about the ease of disappearing when 32 million people are watching. INSET: A KILLER VANISHES: Evelyn Dick served 11 years -- then disappea...

This article discusses the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and how since its ratification in Canada few changes have been made to battle global warming. The day after Canada officially ratified the Kyoto Protocol on climate change in December 2002, David Anderson was in New York City to deposit the freshly signed paper with the Treaty Section of the United Nations. It was his shining moment as federal environment minister: an avowed multilateralist and an unabashed tree hugger, Anderson had spent three years battling opponents -- and sometimes cabinet colleagues -- over a deal he firmly held to be a turning point in the war against global warming. Whatever it was about the Kyoto accord that stirred such emotions two years ago seems like a distant memory, to the point where neither proponents nor critics of the deal give it much chance of making a difference in Canada. Since the conception of the protocol in 1990, greenhouse gas emissions in Canada have climbed some 20 per cent (as of 2002), and all signs suggest those numbers have increased since Anderson's giddy time in New York two years ago. But most critics agree on the basic errors that have led us to our current dilemma, where reaching our stated goal of cutting emissions six per cent below 1990 levels by 2010 -- a reduction of at least 240 megatonnes per year -- would require a brand of resolve we simply don't have. Our most grave, and perhaps most foreseeable, mistake was fooling ourselves into thinking we could do our part under Kyoto without inflicting pain on so-called large final emitters.

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.