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Athey, 35, is well-known for her research on industrial organization, a field of economics that deals with the behavior of firms and market structures. Some of her most acclaimed work has focused on timber auctions, and she has advised forestry officials in the Canadian province of British Columbia...
...approach could also leave Canada behind in a world that won't wait for Harper to learn the ropes. "There's a concern in the business community that the sense of urgency on issues like border management with the U.S. has already been lost," says Perrin Beatty, head of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, an Ottawa-based lobby group. Beatty, who was the last Tory Foreign Minister before MacKay (in Kim Campbell's short-lived 1993 government), hopes the Harper team will live up to its election-platform commitments to expand free trade in the hemisphere and around the world and revive...
...public persona was a lot like his lyrics: alluring but largely opaque. The singer-songwriter didn't traditionally say much to the audience during concerts and rarely gave media interviews. But a potentially lethal brain aneurysm last spring that required delicate surgery, followed by the death of his father, Canadian journalist and writer Scott Young, changed him. Or, perhaps more correctly, opened him up. With mortality grabbing him by the scruff of the neck (and his 60th birthday awaiting him in the fall), Young went into a Nashville studio last March to record Prairie Wind, which may be the most...
...where 10 of the Italian team's 23 players and three of its four coaches were born and raised. Many of the names on the Italian roster - try Carter Trevisani - sound like they belong to players on an Ontario farm team. Then again, the Italian squad is like a Canadian farm team. "I still dream about playing in the National Hockey League," says defenseman Trevisani, 23, a former Canadian junior standout and son of an Italian immigrant. "I was a good player but I wasn't an unbelievable player. In Canada, you have to be unbelievable." Not so in countries...
...Games because Propecia can mask the use of steroids. In another roil, Wayne Gretzky, head of Canada's hockey team, is being stalked by a scandal linking his wife Janet Jones and a close associate to a mess of gambling. Says an indignant Christine Keshen, a member of the Canadian women's curling team: "If people can't lay off of him for what's going on back home, they need to realize this is the Olympics...