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...recent days. Shares in Bombardier are stuck below $3, down from about $18. The good news for Bombardier Inc. is that it has a respected new chief executive in Tellier, 63, who arrived in January. A roll-up-your-sleeves manager, Tellier took over the moribund, government-owned Canadian National Railway Co. in 1992 and turned it into a lean and efficient publicly traded market leader. He did that by cutting costs (including 14,200 jobs) and eliminating real estate and telecom divisions to focus on rail. Tellier knows Bombardier, having served on its board for the past five years...
When Atom Egoyan's son, Arshile, was six or seven, the Canadian director decided it was time to share with him some painful family history: the deaths of more than 1 million Armenians, including some of Egoyan's paternal relatives, at the hands of the Ottoman Turks during World War I. In response, the little boy had one inevitable question...
...Portugal, and comes to Italy, the Czech Republic and Israel this week - Egoyan created a film within a film. His movie is a contemporary tale of two families' searches for truth and reconciliation as they struggle with uncertainty, insecurity and the legacy of denial. One central character is a Canadian-Armenian director named Edward Saroyan (Charles Aznavour) who is making a film about the genocide. To tell the story, Saroyan restages the siege of Van, near the Iranian border, where Armenians with old rifles held off Turks with modern artillery for weeks before being crushed. Though Ararat is actually...
...came when Sub Pop Records, former home to such ground breaking acts as Soundgarden and Nirvana, signed the quartet. The band’s releases on the label, the Knock Knock Knock EP and their second LP, Make Up the Breakdown, have firmly established their reign as kings of Canadian punk...
Treble Charger were the answer to mid-’90s Canadian teen angst. Whether rocking out to power-pop anthems like “Friend of Mine” or making out to the doleful ballad “Red,” teenagers knew that Treble Charger made music that mattered. For the rest, their hopelessly obsessive but charged songs were still good...