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...dwarfed by the Big Board, but it's certainly faster on its feet. Stymiest, 45, CEO of TSX Group (which owns the exchange), is taking her firm public. A former investment banker, she plans to introduce U.S.-dollar-denominated trading next year to grab back a share of Canadian-stock trades made in the U.S. TSX revenues jumped 26% to U.S. $105 million in the first nine months of this year...
...MERODE, 68, head of the International Olympic Committee's medical commission; in Brussels. A pioneer in the fight against performance enhancing drugs, de Merode spent his 35-year career trying to outwit cheating athletes, and was embroiled in several doping controversies. At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, his committee stripped Canadian athlete Ben Johnson of his 100-meter gold medal after the sprinter tested positive for steroids...
...defense, exhorting fellow double-entry doyens to share "a passion for the quality of accounts and their audit; for taxation, for information systems, for management controls and systems." I liked Ricol, whose public speaking style is reminiscent of the electrifying Jean Chr?tien, who is not an accountant but is Canadian. When I gave Ricol the chance to bash greedy Americans for besmirching accounting, he demurred. "And I'm French," he added. "We know the French always enjoy to criticize the Americans." His bonhomie was revolutionary; he was a veritable Lafayette of the ledgers. But his big idea was to replace...
Speaking of tales of adventuresome little boys: Not only did little-known author Yann Martel, below, win Britain's prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction, but he is enjoying the good fortune of being embroiled in a literary feud, which should spike book sales even higher. Martel, a Canadian, won the Booker award for Life of Pi, the story of a shipwrecked boy who shares a lifeboat with a tiger. The book was released in the U.S. in June and ranks No. 23 on this week's New York Times best-seller list. In the Author's Note, Martel acknowledges...
...mark, Canadian Olympian and gold medalist, Crimson captain Jennifer Botterill, tied the game with her sixth goal of the season. Then with barely a minute to play in the period, senior Tracy Catlin put the Crimson ahead...