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Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail JOHN O'BRIEN, 80 / ACADEMIC In 1974, Sir George Williams University Principal John O'Brien signed an agreement to merge his institution [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail DAVID HOPPER, 84 / AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIST David Hopper was a confident and erudite Canadian who listened better than most other westerners [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail HARRY LOUIE, 100 / BUSINESSMAN Harry Louie's father, Yee Pang, saw little of him growing up and, years later, Harry missed [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail ADRIEN GAGNON, 87 / FITNESS ADVOCATE, ENTREPRENEUR MONTREAL -- With 3,000 copies of his health and fitness magazine written, printed, delivered [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail MALLORY SMITH, 80 / COMM / UNITY ADVOCATE, REAL ESTATE SALESMAN Mallory Smith could be found just about every morning at [...]

PETER CUNDILL, 72 / INVESTOR Special to The Globe and Mail -- In the mid-1970s there was an advertising agency that had hit hard times. Its pension fund was shedding [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail DORY TUVIM, 74 / ENTREPRENEUR The story of Dory Tuvim could simply be of someone who came to Canada with $500 [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail EDOUARD CARPENTIER, 84 / WRESTLER, ANNOUNCER MONTREAL -- When professional wrestler Edouard Carpentier came to Canada in the late 1950s, crowds [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail AIMÉ PELLETIER, 95 / AUTHOR The names Aimé Pelletier and Bertrand Vac belonged to the same person but represented two very [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail LEE GIBSON, 57 / COOK IN MOTION When Rick Hansen made the decision to travel the circumference of the earth in [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail AGATHA SCHWAGER, 70 / ARTIST As a child, Agatha Schwager lived through Nazi-occupied Holland. As a visual artist, she lived through [...]

Byline: Christina Varga, Cathryn Atkinson, Terrence Belford, Philip Fine, Marjo Johne, Becky Rynor, Michael Ryval, Rosanna Tamburri and Kira Vermond TOP 40 under 40 / 2009 / THE AWARDS It's [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to the Globe and Mail ANDRÉ BOUCHARD, 64 / ECOLOGIST MONTREAL -- André Bouchard saved many things. The ecologist, who died on March 4 in Montreal, [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to the Globe and Mail LUCIEN CAMPEAU, 82 / CARDIOLOGIST MONTREAL -- Heart patients around the world owe a debt of gratitude to Montreal cardiologist Lucien [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail MICHEL CHARTRAND, 93 / ACTIVIST MONTREAL -- It was a prison warden, not Michel Chartrand's lawyer, who successfully obtained an early [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail STEVE HANNON, 66 / CAMP DIRECTOR What could be better for a homesick child than having a camp director who starts [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail RENÉ PROVOST, 83 / GROCERY PIONEER MONTREAL -- The Quebec grocer, Provigo, began as a simple business started by René Provost's [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail JEAN CHARPENTIER, 74 / JOURNALIST, TRANSLATOR The mandate for Jean Charpentier's job as Pierre Trudeau's press secretary in the late 70s [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail RODERICK STUART, 86 / ELECTRICAL ENGINEER MONTREAL -- It's ironic that Roderick Stuart, the person behind a massive project like the [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail JACK FOGEL, 83 / RESTAURATEUR Jack Fogel's two passions, restaurant management and travelling, came to a serendipitous meeting point in 1954 [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail ANNA BOIVIN, 77 / BRIDGE PLAYER EXTRAORDINAIRE To Anna Boivin, bridge did a host of things. It helped a person grieve [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail SAM TOGURI, 88 / COMMUNITY LEADER MONTREAL -- A community rebuilding after a natural or man-made disaster often possesses that one [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to the Globe and Mail JACQUES DE CHAMPLAIN MONTREAL -- During the three years he worked with famed U.S. scientist Julius Axelrod ending in the late [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail LEN DOBBIN, 74 JAZZ POPULARIZER MONTREAL -- Jazz musicians meet lots of people who like to hang out with them, those [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail ARTHUR VORONKA, 80 / WRITER, DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER MONTREAL -- In a curtained-off hospital emergency cubicle, two days before he died, [...]

Byline: CHRISTINA VARGA, TERRENCE BELFORD, MOIRA DANN, ALLISON DUNFIELD, PHILIP FINE, MARJO JOHNE, GAIL JOHNSON, STEVE LADURANTAYE; MICHAEL RYVAL; ROSANNA TAMBURRI; CHRISTINA VARGA; KIRA VERMOND; HENRIETTA WALMARK Top 40 under [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail On her website, where she matches up MBA graduates and employers, Maggie Austring has her job-seeking candidates fill out a field [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to the Globe and Mail Race and civil liberties found their voice on the 1960's campus. For today's universities, it's the drumbeat of threatened natural resources [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to the Globe and Mail Sue MacNeil tried to make Canada's roads safer by helping people become better drivers. At first, it was simply by becoming [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to the Globe and Mail MONTREAL -- There is anger that destroys monuments, and there is anger that builds them. Misha Wajsman's was the construction kind. [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to the Globe and Mail MONTREAL -- The new McGill-HEC Montreal EMBA, in many ways, resembles a Montreal conversation. Just as the bilingual francophone and anglophone [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail Terrorists and overbearing governments alike seem to appreciate the Internet. The allure for the online plotter is the ability to break [...]

Byline: Philip Fine In Quebec, the '60s were a time when thinking big was the norm. From Expo '67 to the development of the Metro, projects were large. Education was [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE Erika lett has told her parents she plans on becoming a translator. While she may be well suited for the job--being one of those perfectly bilingual Montrealers [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to the Globe and Mail, with a report from Luc Dupont MONTREAL -- Neil Chotem started out as a kid from the Prairies with a talent [...]

Byline: PHILIP FINE; Special to The Globe and Mail MONTREAL -- Forty years ago, Quebec shoe magnate Ernie Avrith decided, in a big way, to bring his merchandise out of [...]

Byline: Philip Fine; with notes from family members Pastry chef, sidewalk-cafe psychologist, one of 'the boys.' Born June 4, 1969, in Montreal. Died July 11 in Montreal from severe head [...]

Pesce also wants the public to see an art exhibit being installed: to watch the artist 'hammering in a few nails,' as he casually puts it, or repairing a lamp [...]

Montreal -- Top 40 fare was the sound du jour at radio station CHOM-FM as Montreal awoke to its first Howard Stern-free day in a year. Songs by Counting Crows, [...]

GREECE'S Olympic Airways has been ordered to pay US$1.4 million by an American court after a man died in 1998 from an asthmatic reaction to on-board cigarette smoke. The judges [...]

NATIVE Americans, cattle ranchers and environmentalists are trying to limit oil and natural gas drilling in New Mexico's San Juan Basin, taking the US government to a Washington DC federal [...]

EMPLOYEE pension fund managers from three US states (including New York) have used their shareholder voting rights to press 10 North American oil companies to share their business plans on [...]

'HOT Ice No. 1,' a US government-industry collaboration looking for methane hydrates in Alaska, has wrapped up without any extraction of the otherwise abundant gas. However, the partners, the US [...]

ECOLOGICAL damage from oil spills is more long-term than most experts have assumed, according to University of North Carolina academic Charles H Peterson, who examined studies of the 1989 Exxon [...]

AMERICAN farmers says recent European Union (EU) trade actions will cost them millions of dollars and are urging their government to bring US laws into compliance with World Trade Organisation [...]

GAP has offered to settle out-of-court a dispute with a group of California employees who opposed paying for company clothing worn on the job, said a lawyer representing them. Their [...]

AMERICAN farmers are calling for the US to comply with a WTO ruling ordering the abolition of foreign trade corporations offering American exporters illegal tax breaks, after the EU started [...]