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Focuses on Emmie Leung, chief executive officer of International Paper Industries Ltd. of North Vancouver, British Columbia. The success the company has had since 1993; How she got into the business; Company revenues for 1998.

Looks at the problems of the forest industry in British Columbia. Most of the problems having happened in the 1990s; The cost of the work; The people who will lose their jobs; The questions of the industry remaining competitive; Comments of Doug Smyth, research director of the largest forest union.

Observations on various news events in Canada are presented. With 850 wildfires in British Columbia--some caused by cigarettes--smokers are under scrutiny. Smoking bans were imposed in dry wilderness areas, including Vancouver's Stanley Park. Conrad Black enraged shareholders by spending $12 million of Hollinger money on personal papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the subject of Black's new book. Brenda Chamberlain, a Guelph, Ontario MP among Liberals, ran to the U.S. drug czar's office to complain about Canada's plan to decriminalize marijuana. A Nova Scotia sod farm was ordered to stop using human sewage sludge as fertilizer.

States that Pacific Press resolved a labor dispute that stopped the presses at Vancouver's two major daily papers for over a week. Settlement involving `The Vancouver Sun' and `The Province.'

Reports on the lagging financial situation of MacMillan Bloedel Limited (MacBlo) located in Vancouver, British Columbia. MacBlo as one of Canada's largest forest product companies; Financial figures for MacBlo; MacBlo's migrating from traditional emphasis on timber and pulp to higher-margin value-added activities; The possible breaking up of MacBlo; Comments from president and CEO of MacBlo, Bob Findlay; The success of other logging companies on the West coast of Canada.

Focuses on inclusion or mainstreaming in education as practiced in Queen Elizabeth Elementary School in Vancouver, British Columbia. Case of Graeme Rush; Reactions of parents; Reactions of teacher; Advantages and disadvantages of segregation.

Examines how a shortage of raw materials is putting pressure on British Columbia's forest policy. How wood chips are suddenly a hot commodity; Canfor Corp.'s failed hostile takeover of Slocan Forest Products; Intervention of B.C. Forests Minister Andrew Petter in the takeover battle; How wood-chip supply is being squeezed; Predictions by Mike MacCallum of Price Waterhouse.

The article reports on the use of real estate investments as a process of money laundering in Canada. It mentions the amount of of real estate being purchased by wealthy Chinese immigrants, particularly in British Columbia, the lack of criminal investigation into possible cases of money laundering, and the difference in the responses by various provinces.

Discusses an 80th birthday celebration for the University of British Columbia's campus newspaper, `The Ubyssey.' Some of the writers who worked on the paper; The story of Danny Stoffman, one of the past editors and how he became a millionaire; The Sing Tao School of Journalism at the university.

Discusses the latest closure of commercial shellfish fisheries in Howe Sound, north of Vancouver, British Columbia. The pollution has been blamed on local pulp-and-paper mills. New provincial pollution-control standards; Power of the pulp-and-paper industry; Comments by environmentalists.

Discusses Whistler in January, 90 minutes north of Vancouver, where condos march up the benchlands year by year and at $44-a-day for a lift ticket, the skiers just keep coming. Signs on the ski runs on Blackcomb are in English and Japanese, the Japanese travel in packs down the slopes, costumes in wild psychedelic colors, sushi bars are filled and Japanese papers share shelf space with the `New York Times.' Background of Whistler Village; The Rendezvous Restaurant; More.

Presents a list of vintage retail stores in Canada. DeLuxe Junk Company in Vancouver, British Columbia; Vespucci in Calgary, Alberta; Courage My Love in Toronto, Ontario.

Focuses on Tom Stephens and his British Columbia business MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. His first steps toward economic health as president and chief executive officer; Work with psychologist Bob Chapman; Workforce cuts; Comments from Stephens on the difficulties of changing a company's corporate culture and the disastrous effects of misunderstanding the group dynamic; The need to spin off companies and do one thing well; Reorganization details; Other comments.

Focuses on Ike Barber, Entrepreneur of the Year in Canada for 1997. Barber being the founder of Slocan Forest Products Ltd. in Richmond, British Columbia; Barber's background in the forestry business; Barber's response to criticism of loggers.

The article presents the author's opinion regarding the Northern Gateway oil pipeline debate between British Columbia Premier Christy Clark and Alberta Premier Alison Redford in 2012, with a focus on Canada's energy industries. Topics include interprovincial trade in Canada, the economic benefits of the proposed pipeline project, and oil spill prevention measures.

This article reports on compulsory community service for Canadian high school students. Forty hours of community service is compulsory for all Ontario high school students before graduation. But across the country, only five areas do the same, British Columbia and the Yukon (both 30 hours), and the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (25 hours). A recent study by the Catholic University of America in Washington shows that forcing students to volunteer is in their best interests, and leads to more civic-minded, socially active adults. In most cases, students also gain work experience.

The article features schools in Canada that offer master of business administration (MBA) degree. These include the University of Alberta's School of Business in Edmonton, University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business in Vancouver, and Brock University's Faculty of Business at St. Catharines, Ontario. Details on the business school's strengths and tuition fees are also noted. INSETS: MBA PROGRAMS BY THE NUMBERS;WHAT'S THE PAYBACK?;EMBA'S BY THE NUMBERS.

Presents news briefs. Fears of chemical attack prompt Americans to build safe rooms of tape and plastic sheeting. Sheila Copps uses Tim Hortons donut shop to sell her bid for Liberal leadership to a party membership glazed with indifference. Luna the killer whale's attention-seeking lingering presence turns docks at Vancouver Island town of Gold River into petting zoo.

The article reports on efforts to prevent white-collar crime in Canada. The stock-swindle case, Project Opulence, was cracked by a team of RCMP investigators working closely with agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Ontario Securities Commission. The team effort worked so well on the Benlolo brothers' case that it was used as a model for the RCMP's new Integrated Market Enforcement Team, an elite fraud squad made up of experienced RCMP investigators, forensic accountants and securities market experts. Their mandate: to work with Canada's securities enforcement community to crack down on corporate crime and restore confidence in Canada's financial markets. RCMP Supt. Craig Hannaford's team might have only one minor arrest under its belt, but it is also investigating transactions between Toronto-based Royal Group Technologies and a St. Kitts resort controlled by chairman Vic De Zen, as well as possible criminal behavior at Nortel Networks. Across the country, in Vancouver, Insp. Bill Majcher, a 20-year veteran of the RCMP, is working the Howe Street beat for IMET. While Toronto concentrates on large-scale blue-chip corporate fraud, Majcher's unit is targeting the relatively smaller stock swindlers who have tarnished the reputation of the Vancouver equity markets. The RCMP hopes federal Bill C-13, which went into force in September, will alleviate some of the problems with search warrants. Besides giving police more power to execute search warrants, the bill includes new protection for corporate whistle-blowers and increases the maximum sentence for fraud to 14 years in prison from 10--the longest sentence that can be imposed short of life in prison. It also adds insider trading to the Criminal Code. INSET: The slow arm of the law.

The author discusses the OTC Bulletin Board stock quotation service in the United States and the proliferation of such companies in Canada. The OTCBB is a trading forum for about 3,300 issuers, most of them nascent companies with no established business--and many with no purpose other than to rip off investors. During the late 1990s, when British Columbia regulators embarked on a concerted campaign to clean up the Vancouver junior market, many scoundrel promoters sought refuge in the OTCBB. The B.C. Securities Commission reckons there are now several hundred OTCBB companies with Vancouver connections. Theoretically, OTCBB issuers that are based in Canada must run a double gauntlet of American and Canadian regulators. But the reality is that Canadian regulators tend to ignore OTC issuers because they don't trade on Canadian exchanges. And American regulators, to the extent that they bother with OTC companies, are less inclined to pursue foreign issuers, especially with Canada's abysmal record of extraditing Canadian residents who breach U.S. securities rules. Commission chairman Doug Hyndman says B.C. is working on some initiatives to deal with the problem, but isn't quite ready to talk about them. Insp. Bill Majcher, in charge of the new RCMP Integrated Market Enforcement Team in Vancouver, describes the over-the-counter stock business as a tremendous problem. The problem is not unique to Vancouver. There are also dozens of Bulletin Board stocks operating out of Toronto, for the most part unimpeded by provincial regulators. Michael Watson, the Ontario Securities Commission enforcement director whose principal constituent is the more senior Toronto Stock Exchange, admits that errant OTCBB companies are at the bottom of his priority list. Can/Am Auto Sales Inc., a Vancouver car dealer with no revenue and negligible assets, provides a good illustration of why investors, when dealing with Bulletin Board issues, can toss efficient-market pricing theories out the window.

Presents a list of literary works set in Canada, compiled as of October 2002. Description of Sunshine Coast, B.C., in the books 'The Suspect' and 'Prized Possessions,' by L.R. Wright; Plot of the books; Place in Canada where Robert Service wrote the poems for his book 'The Best of Robert Service'; Characteristics of the poems by Service.

Focuses on the investment firm of Glenn Anderson in Burns Lake, British Columbia. Government investigation by the B.C. Financial Institutions Commission (FICOM) of the company of Anderson, known as 439288 BC Ltd.; Way that much of the money advanced to borrowers was unsecured; Belief of investigators that the firm was insolvent and had become like a Ponzi scheme; Idea that the company had participated in money laundering.

Focuses on Prince Rupert, British Columbia as of July, 2001. Economic conditions of the area; Potential oil and petroleum deposits in Hecate Strait, off the coast of Prince Rupert; Conflicts within the community over off-shore drilling. INSET: A TOWN'S CRUEL TRICKS OF FATE.

Reports on the Case Competition co-winners for the University of Victoria's business school in British Columbia. Issues of concern for the university and need for depth of faculty members in individual functions or disciplines; Sample from the application of co-winner James Hernandez; Sample of the submission from co-winner Norman Embree; Details of the strategy being implemented at the university to address its challenges. INSETS: Case competition cowinner James Hernandez;Case competition cowinner Norman Embree.

Focuses on the August 21, 1999 resignation of British Columbia premier Glen Clark. Reasons, including criminal investigation into Clark's role in the support of friend Dimitrios Pilarinos' charity casino; Details of the investigation which included a police raid on his home; Role of Dimitris Vrahnos, a Revenue Canada employee in informing police of Clark's activities; History of Clark's election as a member of the New Democratic Party; His popularity. INSETS: Downfall of a premier;`Under a cloud,' by John Nicol.

Reports on how customer complaints regarding service in stores and restaurants is increasing in the late 1990s. Reasons why sales clerks and other customer service people are more hostile towards customers; Number of calls the Better Business Bureau of Mainland British Columbia receives on a weekly basis; Examples of mistreatment of customers; Comments. INSET: Manners Past and Present.

Opinion. Offers the author's experience of going for a walk in the old growth rain forest of Clayoquot Sound. Definition of a pristine valley; Why environmentalists began struggling to protect Clayoquot Sound after logging began to threaten Meares Island; Why Greenpeace is trying to recruit writers to their cause; View that there is no need to log the thousand-year-old forests; How writers are fussing about experiencing things on their own terms.

Highlights the aggressive Asian businessmen who have turned Richmond, British Columbia into the hottest boomtown this side of the Pacific. Richmond has the highest concentration of Asians of any Canadian city. Examples of entrepreneurs Jack Lee, 42, and Howard Ho, 56; Others. INSET: China dollars (Buy & Sell Press' Chinese edition).

Relates on the disappearance of hiker Ann Marie Potton in the Whistler Mountain in British Columbia, Canada. Search for Potton by the Whistler's Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Potton's roommate, Tanya Moore's portrait of Potton; Total absence of clues; Creation of the Ann Marie Potton Search Committee; Psychological impact on family members and friends on Potton's disappearance.

Profiles Sven Robinson, the aggressive New Democratic Party MP from British Columbia. How he has galvanized gays and lesbians alike by declaring himself gay--the first to do so in Canadian federal politics. His demands for the same social and conjugal rights afforded to heterosexuals; His fears that any mistakes will damage the whole movement; Challenges; Childhood; Schooling; Marriage; Substance abuse; Political career.

Focuses on the Vancouver Stock Exchange (VSE), a securities market that has few equals as an arena for both risk and reward. Continuing evidence of unchecked abuse; Details of scandal in 1992; Inquiry to be conducted by James Markin into the VSE and B.C. Securities Commission (BCSC); VSE's mission; Critics. INSETS: The VSE dubious achievement awards.;Dirty dancing (history of Lionheart Resources Ltd.), by S.D.;The VSE's greatest hits.;A stock promoter's glossary, by Sarah Davison.

Shares the author's experiences in fighting fires in British Columbia. Training in firefighting; Description of the firefighting crew; Accounts of actually putting out the fire; Personal impact of firefighting.

Reports on the tale of the murder of Alexandra Pesic from Vancouver, B.C. which was arranged by her mother-in-law. Husband Joe Pesic as dominated and manipulated by parents; Conviction of mother-in-law Jelka Pesic of first-degree murder.

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.

Thousands have fled their homes as British Columbia (BC) endures its most destructive summer of forest fires. Across the province, fires have forced the evacuation of thousands from the Okanagan, from cowboy country near Kamloops, and in the mountainous Kootenay region of southeastern BC. More than 170,000 hectares of forest have been destroyed in the most devastating and expensive fire year in provincial history. Three pilots have died in two crashes in aerial fire fights. Forestry crews, contractors, hundreds of soldiers and urban firefighters are waging the battle against tough odds. At their peak, flames in the McLure-Barriere and Okanagan Mountain park fires climbed more than 60 m into the forest canopy, and spread at more than 90 m a minute. Provincial Auditor General Wayne Strelioff warned two years ago of the growing threat of "interface fires," where human development abuts the natural forest--already seen claiming communities and lives in California, New Mexico and Australia.

Focuses on the TimberWest Forest Corp. after it closed the Youbou sawmill, outside Duncan on Vancouver Island, British Columbia in January 2001. Formation of Youbou TimberLess Society to protest the loss of jobs; Efforts of TimberWest to protect its assets, according to chief executive officer Paul McElligott; Discussion of privatization of public forests and of the lumber industry, in light of a Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute and provincial government proposals for reform; Examples of other timber towns and logging companies.

Discusses the use of traditional Chinese medicine therapies in British Columbia. Discussion of an ancient Chinese healing technique known as qigong; Use of acupuncture and herbal concoctions for healing; Description of the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists of British Columbia.

Describes how Cuba has become a hot spot for Canadian entrepreneurs on the prowl. Fidel Castro's visit to Vancouver on December 14, 1995 to meet with Wally Berukoff who runs Miramar Mining Corp.; Berukoff and Castro meeting with Pierre Trudeau at the Canadian Embassy in Havana in September 1995; INSET: Playing chicken with egg trays, by J.W..

Says that as British Columbia's old-growth forest stands are dwindling, and the second growth forests are too immature to harvest, the provincial government (which controls most B.C. forest lands) is under increasing pressure to set aside more of the old-growth stands for a variety of purposes. Record losses in the province' forest industry; Serious new challenges to the industry in court; Grassroots protests; The new Chemainus mill. INSET: Tough tactics, hard opinions..

Considers the upcoming British Columbian election, and notes Social Credit party leader Rita Johnston is lurching from one embarrassment to another, while New Democratic Party leader Michael Harcourt holds a 15 percentage-point lead in a survey published at week's end. Former Socred leader Vander Zalm's resignation over conflicts of interest, along with resignations of 11 cabinet ministers; Party's efforts to replace John Ball (Richmond East riding); Other controversies.

The article reports on the increase in earthquakes and the actions British Columbia is taking to prepare its residents. Research by geoscientists Rebecca Bendick and Roger Bilham is discussed regarding why the number of earthquakes is increasing, the impact on the Cascadia subduction zone, and the possibility of more powerful earthquakes.

Explores how Commercial Consolidators Corp., a consumer electronics and business equipment supplier based in Vancouver, British Columbia, has built a successful business in Cuba. Features of doing business in Cuba; Agreements forged by Commercial with Cuban government agencies; Profits in 1999.

The article discusses how the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) intends to cleanup after the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada. According to the article, VANOC aims to divert 85% of all of its solid waste from landfills beginning in the fall of 2009 through May 2010 but its garbage plans aren't available yet. The beverage company Coca-Cola's waste-reduction plan as well as its "Olympic Sustainability Plan" are discussed.

The article focuses on an agreement that the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta have reached to reduce inter-province trading restrictions and increase labor mobility. The agreement is called the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA). The agreement, which will begin in spring 2007, will effectively erase the border between B.C. and Alberta and some economists are calling it the most important free trade agreement in Canada since NAFTA.

British Columbia's Okanagan Valley is an area of surpassing beauty. That housing boom, in turn, has created a lot of wealth and more than a few millionaires in the Okanagan. But no one has had a more dramatic and unlikely rise to riches and influence than local boy Ron Michael Derrickson. His eponymous RMD Group of Companies owns trailer parks, a marina, apartments, dozens of leased industrial and commercial properties, a family theme park, other residential and recreational developments--such as a brand-new executive golf course--and substantial tracts of prime undeveloped land. All told, Derrickson's holdings are worth an estimated $100 million. While building his businesses, Derrickson was elected chief of the Westbank Indian band in 1976, the start of five consecutive two-year terms. His motivation to run for office stemmed from a realization that "there were some things that needed to be done." Under Derrickson's leadership, the Westbank band's fortunes soared from squalor to being one of the wealthiest reserves in Canada, an entrepreneurial hothouse with 12 profitable businesses. Today, with his remaining substantial tracts of prime undeveloped land, Derrickson is a lightning rod for Okanagan developers. It's the reason he says he doesn't like to dine out locally, because people are always pitching him with deals. But deals there are aplenty.

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.

Discusses the Historica Foundation of Canada's national heritage fair in Kamloops, British Columbia. Description of history projects of children throughout Canada; Perceived lack of interest in Canadian History; Question of how history should be viewed and taught.

Profiles David Jones, associate director of the University of British Columbia's (UBC) University-Industry Liaison Office (UILO), which acts as a business incubator. Jones' efforts to transform technologies with commercial potential from UBC's labs into start-up companies; Regulations which restrict equity participation by Jones and his colleagues.

Reports on the unexpected sale of MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. of British Columbia to Weyerhaeuser Co. of Federal Way, Washington. Reaction of the sale by residents of British Columbia; Why the government in British Columbia will not block the purchase; Why Weyerhaeuser decided to buy the company.

Reports on a conference that was held in British Columbia between the federal government in Canada and its provinces over a framework for co-operation on national social programs. The inability of participants to reach an agreement; Fears by some provinces that the federal government may launch social initiatives when the budget is presented on February 16, 1999; How the talks originated from the Calgary Declaration.