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...Perhaps the kids in the house did vote for Away from Her, since it was directed by Sarah Polley, who turned 28 this month; Polley also got a nomination for Adapted Screenplay. A slot for Best Actress slot was filled by Juno's Ellen Page, the 20-year-old Nova Scotian, and for Supporting Actress, Saoirse Ronan, 13, as the girl whose first view of sex shocks her into a lie that outlives its victims...
...many trips north in 2007 as they did in 2003. Natural-resource industries, for which prices haven't risen substantially, also suffered. "In the month of November there wasn't a single Canadian sawmill that made money," says Russ Taylor, president of forestry consultancy International Wood Markets Group. Nova Scotia's biggest Christmas-tree grower shipped a quarter of a million balsam firs this year, mostly to U.S. stores. Next year they're shutting up shop in Canada altogether, says Mac Kirk at Kirk Forest Products. The strong loonie eroded all their profits. "It is loony," Kirk says...
...closure has left teachers suddenly adrift in a strange land. Many, like Steele, have taken to the streets, leading demonstrations against Nova and Sahashi and holding press conferences denouncing the company. On Nov. 2 former Nova employees announced a lessons-for-food program, which would allow students to pay for classes in meals and groceries. Meanwhile, some airlines have offered discount flights home for cash-strapped teachers, while embassies have opened hot lines to aid their stranded citizens. The out-of-work teachers have glutted the local labor market, causing other schools to stop accepting job applications. "The market...
...troubles for Nova don't end there. Court-appointed lawyers investigating the case allege that Sahashi, who has been fired by the board and hasn't been seen in public since June, had turned his company into something of a personal piggy bank; they accuse him of misappropriation and aggravated breach of trust. (Sahashi's representative has filed a petition rebutting these allegations.) On Oct. 30, the lawyers invited reporters to check out Sahashi's lavish office at the company's Osaka headquarters, complete with a fully stocked wet bar and a hidden bedroom and sauna. "I wanted to show...
...G.education, a Nagoya-based English-tuition chain, threw Nova a lifeline, agreeing to take over its operations. But it only plans to reopen some 200 of Nova's 669 remaining schools, and it won't be refunding fees, although some rival institutes are offering discounts for Nova students. That won't help former teachers like Kristen Moon, a 23-year-old English-education major from Philadelphia, who has been scraping by on private lessons she now gives to her former Nova students. "I'm living hand to mouth," she says. "Nova has ruined a lot of people's lives...