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Fleiszer, the number one overall pick in the Canadian Football League draft, has signed a two-year deal with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats for undisclosed terms...
...only U.S.-Cuba policy that?s maintained with domestic electoral concerns in mind. Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien?s visit with Fidel Castro may also have been undertaken with his electorate in mind: ?Chretien?s Cuba trip will win him votes back home because he?s asserting his independence from the U.S.,? says TIME Toronto bureau chief Andrew Purvis. Chretien told Castro that most participants in the recent Summit of the Americas want Cuba to rejoin the hemisphere?s family of nations, and he also pressed for the release of dissidents. His primary message, however: Don?t tell Canada what...
Marijuana is not a performance-inducing drug, according to the International Olympic Committee, but they?re going to ban it anyway. Stung by being forced to restore the gold medal to Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati, who had been disqualified at Nagano after testing positive for the substance, the IOC today announced plans to tighten up its testing regulations to include the ?social drug.? Prince Alexandre de Merode of the IOC medical commission said the danger with marijuana was that ?it can give you the impression that you are indestructible.? No word on the IOC?s attitude toward footwear commercials that...
...reason for this higher level of consumer welfare is deceptively simple: there's no such thing as a banking industry anymore. There is only a financial services industry. And while the Canadian banking sector is highly concentrated, its financial services sector is not. Fifty trust companies, many with near-national reach, offer a range of services comparable to that of the banks; 2,500 credit unions and caisses populaires (Quebec credit unions) remain important retail outlets; 150 life insurance companies offer a wide range of investment vehicles; 80 mutual fund companies command 77 percent of the Canadian mutual fund market...
Michael E. Raynor '90 is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Business School. His dissertation research is on the entry of the four largest Canadian banks into the securities industry...