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Health: Blame Canada
You should pay attention to New Hampshire over the next few weeks--and not just because there's a presidential primary coming up. The Republican Governor there...
Shooting Up Legally Up North
The latest step in the Canadian drug war may just be surrender. National health officials last week approved the first legal "safe injection site" in North...
Plagued Canada
As if Canadians weren't battered enough by microbial menaces after dealing with SARS, along comes mad cow. A routine inspection of a slaughtered Black Angus in...
Toronto, A Year Later
The Toronto International Film Festival had a sad intermission last year. The Sept. 11 attacks divided the 10-day event in two: a happy gathering of the cinema...
The Ties That Really Bind
Around the turn of the century, a little girl named Evelyn Dougherty migrated with her family from a hardscrabble farm near Sarnia, Ont., to central Michigan...
Canada Prosperity and Parochialism
Set like a jewel between snow-covered mountains and deep Pacific Ocean inlets, Vancouver, Canada's third largest city and site of the 1986 world's fair, has...
Business: Adieu, Montreal
Sun Life shifts to Toronto The 26-story granite headquarters of the Sun Life Assurance Co. in Montreal was once the largest office building in the British...
Mining Money in Vancouver
One source of funds for the Los Angeles-based church is the notorious, self- regulated stock exchange in Vancouver, British Columbia, often called the scam...
Bitter Standoff in Montreal: Hopes for a GATT Agreement Fade
Clayton Yeutter was looking for a strong send-off. The veteran U.S. Trade Representative, whose tenure ends in January, had hoped that last week's trade talks in...
Canada The Man Who Hated Women
It was the last hour of fall-term classes at the University of Montreal's engineering school, the Ecole Polytechnique. Students faced eleven days of exams, but...
Westward Ho to Expo 86
Two years ago, the waterfront along Vancouver's False Creek, a narrow inlet off the city's main harbor, was covered with rusting railroad tracks and a few...
Science: A Rosetta Stone of Evolution
The tides at the closed end of the Bay of Fundy are the highest in the world, rising and falling more than 50 feet every day. For the two fossil hunters...
Canada Land of Hope and Hustle
A decade ago, the adjectives most often used to describe Quebec were angry, sullen or depressed. Now writers seeking to characterize Canada's French- speaking...
DIPLOMACY: Game Playing in Montreal
As Queen Elizabeth II formally opened the ceremonies and the gas-fired torch flared into life at trackside in Montreal's ribbed, concrete Olympic Stadium last...
Press: A Star Is Shorn
Montreal loses a daily Managing Editor Ray Heard walked into the paper's newsroom one afternoon last week and delivered the brutal message: after 110 years of...
Canada: A Separatist Split-Up
Sovereignty for Quebec was the rallying cry that helped carry Premier René Levesque and his Parti Québécois to power eight years ago. When Levesque declared...
Canada: Turner Takes Charge
The new leader of Canada's ruling Liberal Party, Toronto Lawyer John Turner, 55, became the nation's 17th Prime Minister last week, succeeding the retiring ...
Sport: The Battle of Montreal
An artist loses his title to a brawler in a thriller It was billed, in French-speaking Montreal, as le face a face historique: the historic confrontation, a...
Canada: The P.M.'s Bottom Line
Although campaigning politicians are obliged to press the flesh, the hands-on policy of Prime Minister John Turner, 55, has many Canadian women up in arms...
CANADA: Wet Acadia
At Halifax, Dartmouth and on Cape Breton Island, thirsty Nova Scotians queued up on the sidewalk white shutters came down, doors were opened and government...
