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The article focuses on the growth in the real estates industry in British Columbia. The outdoor recreation capital of Canada is rapidly becoming the real estate queen of British Columbia. Real estate prices on the Drive have been surging. Typical houses go for around $450,000 and it is common for them to sell for up to $70,000 over the asking price.

Focuses on the history of Canadian Tire Corporation Ltd.. Its metamorphosis into one of Canada's largest retail chains; Conflicts with auto manufacturers and gas retailers; Purchase of 60 million gallons of oil from the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War by then-CEO A.J. Biles; Modernization of customer experience in the mid 1980s and early '90s; Analyses of Canadian Tire's product mix by industry watcher Rob Gerlsbeck; Statistics; Failure of U.S. expansion.

Comments on Canadian business and the expected economic recovery, in light of the so-called New, New Economy. Role of speed in the so-called New, New Economy; How instant action and reaction matter in the corporate world; Topic of corporate loyalty; Impact of the Internet; Outlook for most Canadian chief executive officers.

Reports business developments in British Columbia as of April 2001. Appointment of Dean Fleming as marketing director of M5 Design Group; Honor given to Rajinder Kahlon as Citizen of the Year by the Squamish Chamber of Commerce; Introduction of the Vancouver Centre for IBM electronic business Innovation at the IBM Business Innovation Centre.

Comments on business issues in British Columbia. Need for chief financial officers to submit fiscal 2000 results to PricewaterhouseCoopers; Research and compilation of the list of the biggest companies; Details of the venture addressed to chief executive officers and human resources directors.

Offers news briefs related to business as of March 20, 2000. Merger of German banks Deutsche Bank AG and Dresdner Bank AG, creating the one of the largest banks in the world; File for bankruptcy by Lichtman, Canada's largest independent bookstore chain; Malfunctioning of the Toronto Stock Exchange computers for extended periods twice on the same day; Others.

Offers Canadian business-related news briefs as of January 31, 2000. Lawsuits filed by American media companies against iCraveTV head William Craig; The nation's financial outlook for 2000; Reformatting of the newspaper and magazine holdings of Southam Inc.; Others.

Discusses networking as a way to get ahead in Canadian business. How to network; What not to do; Being sincere; Expanding networking beyond one's field; Using gimmicks to get noticed as something not to do.

Reports on news and information regarding business. Announcement by Atlantic Canada's four major telephone companies of a potential merger; Ruling by the World Trade Organization in favor of the United States and New Zealand, ordering Canada to scale back its subsidized dairy exports and allow foreign producers greater access to its domestic markets; Purchase of the robotics division of Spar Aerospace by MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.

Deals with the decision by Maple Leaf Foods Ltd. to table its bid for Schneider Corp. The chance that Hormel Foods Corp. might be making a bid for Schneider.

Consciously or not, most large Canadian businesses are downright Marxist — at least in the Groucho sense — when it comes to their approach to reputation management. They seem to believe that public attitudes and perceptions are shaped solely by advertising, sponsorships and press releases. The fact is that what the public sees about your company will be a lot more than the carefully picked images one chooses to show them. They'll see what's being said about one in newspapers and on specialty business-news television stations that didn't even exist five years ago. And they'll discount much of one's own advertising — if it breaks through today's unprecedented advertising clutter-as self-serving.

Reports on Canada-based Copol International's entry in the multilayer film market with coextrusion equipment from Davis-Standard. Copol's provision of unoriented CPP films to North American converters; Remarks of Copol's vice president of operations David Sawler regarding the company's addition of three-layer extrusion capability.

Focuses on business issues and events in Canada. Suggestion for the growth of the tourism business; List of themes for a proposed theme park project; Implications of the sponsorship of carousels in the theme park by the Royal Dominion Bank.

Reports that the business community of Canada is expressing serious concern over compliance costs following the parliament's vote to ratify the Kyoto Protocol as of December 2002. Issue favored by the vote of the parliament; Measures which can help in reducing emissions; Effect of the ratification of Kyoto Protocol on oil sands development.