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Eaton's: A Dynasty in Decline
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 10, 1997. Partner content is not updated.
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Canadians Do Business in Cuba
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on January 15, 1996. Partner content is not updated.
The discussion, says Berukoff, was not exclusively about business. But it is Berukoff's business in Cuba that makes him so intriguing.
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Martin's 1998 Budget
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 9, 1998. Partner content is not updated.
There were still three weeks remaining before budget day when Finance Minister Paul Martin sat down one afternoon for a strategy session in his fifth-floor office in the Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings.
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Rogers Cable Apologizes
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on January 16, 1995. Partner content is not updated.
It may well go down as one of the rockiest product launches in the history of Canadian television. On Jan. 1, cable companies across the country began offering their 7.5 million subscribers seven new Canadian-owned specialty channels.
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White Pass & Yukon Route
The White Pass & Yukon Route railway was built to meet the demand for transportation to the gold fields of the Yukon River basin during the Klondike Gold Rush. Completed in 1900, it was a feat of engineering and one of the steepest railways in North America. It ran 177 km from Skagway, Alaska, to Whitehorse, Yukon. Today, tourist rail excursions run on a portion of the original line.
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Computer Industry
Hardware Historically, computer hardware has been divided into 3 broad classes: large mainframe computers, somewhat smaller minicomputers and the personal computers (PCs) or microcomputers that have become familiar office and home fixtures since the mid-1980s.
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International Economics
International economics consists of two main parts. The first is international trade theory and commercial policy. The second is international finance and balance of payments theory and policy.
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Astral Media
Astral Media is the largest radio broadcaster in Canada, with major interests in specialty television channels.
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Seagrams Buys MCA
Last week, as investors tried to get used to the idea of Seagram Co. Ltd. as a show-biz giant, Americas newest movie mogul was in California. Edgar Bronfman Jr. was visiting the institution that redefined his company: the huge entertainment conglomerate MCA Inc.
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McKay Report on Bank Mergers
When the federal task force on the future of financial institutions released its anxiously awaited report last week, there was no special delivery to the top floors of Bay Street's bank towers.
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Seagram's Shift in Direction
Among the qualities possessed by Edgar M. Bronfman, the chairman of Montreal-based Seagram Co., are a palpable sense of confidence and an encyclopedic knowledge of his family's history.
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Evans Brothers Piano and Manufacturing Co Ltd
Evans Brothers Piano and Manufacturing Co, Ltd. Established in London, Ont, in 1871 or 1872 under the name E.B. Litler or Littler. The brothers John and William Evans appear to have formed a partnership with Litler ca 1885.
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Mexican Peso Slides
While Canada's dollar crisis reached a boiling point last week, Mexican Foreign Minister José Angel Gurria was in Canada for emergency meetings with bankers and senior federal ministers in an effort to shore up confidence in his country's own floundering currency.
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Iron Ore Company of Canada
Iron Ore Company of Canada, incorporated 1949 by Labrador Mining and Exploration and Hanna Mining interests to exploit the some 400 million t of open-pit IRON ORE reserves proved in central Québec and Labrador in the late 1940s.
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International Woodworkers of America-Canada
International Woodworkers of America (now IWA Canada), formed in 1937 as part of a drive towards industrial unionization mounted by the Committee for Industrial Organization (later Congress of Industrial Organizations).
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Frederick Harris Music Co. Limited
The Frederick Harris Music Co, Limited. Publishing firm founded in London ca 1900, established in Canada in 1910, and controlled 1944-91 by the University of Toronto, then by the Royal Conservatory of Music. Frederick Harris (ca 1866-1945) founded his catalogue on copyrights purchased from C.J.
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Arc Records
Arc Records was one of Canada’s most successful record labels during the 1960s. It issued recordings by some of the country’s most popular artists of the day, including Catherine McKinnon, Anne Murray and Ronnie Hawkins.
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Algoma Steel Inc.
Algoma Steel Inc. is a major steel producer based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Its principal products are steel plate and sheet for various industries, including automotive, construction and manufacturing. The company employs more than 2,900 people in Sault Ste. Marie.
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Sun Media Corporation
Sun Media Corporation, a subsidiary of Quebecor Media, is Canada's largest publisher of English-language tabloid newspapers, was formed on 4 February 1978, through the amalgamation of Toronto Sun Holdings Ltd and Toronto Sun Publishing Ltd.
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Garden Island Rafting and Shipbuilding Enterprises
Dileno Dexter Calvin (1798-1884), a timber merchant from Clayton, New York, relocated his business on Garden Island (26.3 ha at the east end of Lake Ontario) in 1836. By 1880 he owned the island; today it remains the exclusive property of his descendants.