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Situated in a stately older neighborhood in central Halifax, Camp Hill Medical Centre overlooks parkland and renovated 19th-century homes. But for hundreds of the hospital's employees, going to work even [...]

The partners in the project were clearly ready to celebrate. On Nov. 10, Destec Energy, Inc., a Houston-based independent power company, announced that after three years of intense negotiations, it [...]

The fine print on the back of the glossy tour brochure advises travellers that they will have to pay ``100 per cent of purchase price'' if they cancel their vacation [...]

Santa Claus will be stopping at the MacQuarrie household in Bedford, N.S., this Christmas--but his sleigh will not be piled as high as it was in previous years. Sherri MacQuarrie, [...]

The old and new share a comfortable coexistence at MKS Inc., a software company with headquarters in a three-storey, redbrick building on the main street of Waterloo, in southwestern Ontario. [...]

The battle is for supremacy in the air. And last week, the country's two major airlines intensified their skirmishes--in the streets and in the courts. The objective: to influence the [...]

It was a no-win proposition. With Canadian Airlines losing more than $500,000 a day--and with nearly 16,000 jobs at risk--the federal government was under intense public pressure to help bail [...]

The setting in the south Texas city of San Antonio for the initialling of the legal text of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was picture-perfect. In an open-air [...]

They are the kind of complaints that companies seldom voice in public for fear of retaliation. One Edmonton steel fabricator submitted the lowest bid for a contract in the Northwest [...]

On the rare occasions that they appear in public, the Canadian, American and Mexican officials negotiating the terms of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) appear cool and confident. [...]

When it first opened in 1975, the TransCanada Mall in northeast Calgary was a shiny temple to North American consumerism. By late last year, however, the TransCanada Mall had become [...]

Before he retired in 1969 after 21 years in the National Hockey League, Allan Stanley had a career that would make most players proud. The Timmins, Ont.-born defenceman played for [...]

For the managers and employees of Cosette Communication-Marketing Inc., it was a long-awaited victory. On Nov. 1, the Toronto staff of the Quebec City-based advertising agency learned that they had [...]

Frank Otta warmly welcomed the collapsed of communism in his native Czechoslovakia in 1989. Forty-one years earlier, when Otta was 25, Communist regime that had just taken power nationalized his [...]

On April 17, thousands of 'Lost Canadians' will finally have the opportunity to claim their long-denied Canadian citizenship, thanks to Bill C-37. Intended to restore citizenship to those stripped of [...]

For 12 years, Roy Rodie helped to knead and stretch the toffee-and-peanut-butter concoction that forms the centre of Canada's best-selling chocolate bar, Crispy Crunch. He and a partner used to [...]

Carol Kirk has discovered a way to do her cross-border shopping without leaving her Toronto home. In June, a friend showed Kirk, 29, a catalogue published by Victoria's Secret, a [...]

Since 1927, Tauck Tours Inc. has arranged Canadian holidays for thousands of American visitors. But this year, Arthur Tauck, director of operations for the Westport, Conn.-based package-tour operator, says that [...]

As the adage goes, 'If someone builds a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to the door.' One small Quebec manufacturer, Dutailier Inc., has built a better rocking [...]

The parking lot surrounding the Price Club outlet in Mississauga, Ont., is jammed with cars, many of them expensive imports. In contrast, the interior of the store--a sprawling complex the [...]

For the past two years, Steven and Kimberley Zoldy have spent much of their spare time installing pine panelling in the basement recreation room of their three-bedroom bungalow. But now, [...]

SURVIVING THE STAMPEDE When Lynn Posluns became president of Fairweather in September, 1989, she took over a 135-store womenswear chain that she says was badly out of touch with its [...]

BECOMIMG A GLOBAL GIANT The stainless-steel shovel that props up an ornamental tree in the corner of John Roth's office is more than an unusual piece of office decor. It [...]

A promise unfulfilled Investors reconsider the Soviet Union For the historic Baltic port city of Leningrad, the plans called for a glittering face-lift. Last November, a group of 17 wealthy [...]

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO A coup that went awry Rebels give up after a five-day standoff Under the levelled guns of nervous government troops, a tall, white-clad figure emerged last week [...]

Tough times for Ma Bell Over the decades, Bell Canada has acquired the kind of reputation coveted by thousands of companies. Executives and consumers around the world admired the giant [...]

Picking up the pieces Thomas Bata gives Czech capitalism a boost The managers of the giant state-owned Svit shoe factory in Zlin, a city of 90,000 in central Czechoslovakia, found [...]

A giant marketplace When Ronald Reagan proposed a 'North American accord' with Canada and Mexico in launching his campaign for the U.S. presidency a decade ago, the idea seemed farfetched. [...]

POSTPONING NOVA'S DREAM Robert (Bob) Blair has rarely kept his ambitions secret. One of Calgary's most outspoken oilmen, the determined, 60-year-old chairman of Nova Corp. is also an ardent nationalist [...]

Ivan Fleischmann, a Toronto lawyer, developer and avid golfer, says that the deal was irresistible. In 1987, he was among the 550 members of the National Club-a golf course 15 [...]

A fight for control When the multimillionaires from Vancouver arrived in the small Pennsylvania town of Lancaster - in the heart of usually hospitable Amish country - intent on taking [...]

The message came through loud and clear. In September, when Hollywood's Camryn Manheim won an Emmy for best supporting actress in a television drama series, she held the gold statuette [...]

Until scientists develop the ultimate magic bullet--a diet pill that is not potentially lethal, or at least one with benefits that clearly outweigh the side-effects--many overweight people will turn to [...]

SINCE YOU ASKED By Pamela Wallin (Random House, 295 pages, $32.95) The title of Pamela Wallin's new memoir may irritate some of her fans. Many will pick up Since You [...]

As a director of Martha House, a shelter for battered women in Hamilton, Lenore Lukasik-Foss has heard all the heartbreaking stories. And not all the victims are human. When one [...]

Does life imitate art, or the other way around? In her engrossing new novel, A Recipe for Bees (Knopf Canada, $32.95), Gail Anderson-Dargatz writes about the enduring marriage of Karl [...]

FICTION 1. The Underpainter, Jane Urquhart (1) 2. Larry's Party, Carol Shields (2) 3. London, Edward Rutherfurd (3) 4. Where She Has Gone, Nino Ricci 5. Fall on Your Knees, [...]

For most writers, the obvious place to promote their books is bookstores. Author Chris McGowan is getting help from another kind of venue: the 140 Swiss Chalet restaurants across Canada. [...]

It was a Rolling Stones fan's ultimate dream: to see the legendary band in an intimate club setting. That dream came true for about 200 people earlier this month when [...]

For Canadian actress Deborah Unger, starring in the action thriller The Game was sometimes a little more thrilling than she bargained for. The film, which opened last week, also features [...]

PLEADED GUILTY: Gordon Stuckless, 47, a former assistant equipment manager at Maple Leaf Gardens, to 24 counts of sexual assault on 24 boys over a 19-year period; in a Toronto [...]

INVESTED: As a Chevalier in the prestigious Ordre des arts et des lettres, Canadian film-maker Atom Egoyan, 37; at a ceremony in Toronto, by the French ambassador to Canada, Loic [...]

AWARDED: To Canadian film-makers Simcha Jacobovici, 44, Elliot Halpern, 40, and William Cobban, 50, an Emmy Award for investigative journalism for their documentary The Selling of Innocents, about the sex [...]

DIED: Actor Burgess Meredith, 89, whose movie, stage and television career spanned 68 years; at his home in Malibu, Calif. Meredith, who got his start on Broadway in the 1930s, [...]

DIED: Dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, 66, who ruled Zaore for 31 years until he was ousted by rebels in May; in exile in Rabat, Morocco, after a long battle with [...]

Publishers know that an eye-catching dust jacket can help sell a book. So when the provocative Toller Cranston, six-time Canadian figure-skating champion and a prolific painter, volunteered to help with [...]

For her first book, literacy advocate Arlene Perly Rae tackled a project dear to her heart: getting youngsters excited about reading. Rae asked well-known Canadians to describe the books that [...]