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Both Alcoa and Goodyear had operated well below capacity for a number of years, so it came as no surprise when they announced plans to move production to Venezuela and Mexico, respectively. Unfortunately, Collingwood's tale of economic woe is being repeated in communities across Ontario and Quebec--Canada's industrial heartland. "A high Canadian dollar is an absolute killer," says Peter Nygard, chairman of Nygard International Ltd., a manufacturer of women's clothing in Winnipeg, Man., whose $1 billion in annual revenue comes largely from...
...probably too wound up to take a half-hour nap, which says volumes about stress-related hormone levels. It's probably not worth forcing yourself to take a nap to ward off heart disease. A better solution might be to change jobs to reduce stress. Denis Alarie, Timmins, Ontario...
...Alto program began three years ago, and like-minded communities in Phoenix, Albuquerque, N.M., and Portland, Ore., plan to start similar classes next spring. The growing movement of institutions for kids in atheist families also includes Camp Quest, a group of sleep-away summer camps in five states plus Ontario, and the Carl Sagan Academy in Tampa, Fla., the country's first Humanism-influenced public charter school, which opened with 55 kids in the fall of 2005. Bri Kneisley, who sent her son Damian, 10, to Camp Quest Ohio this past summer, welcomes the sense of community these new choices...
...left with a world that even just five years ago would have seemed topsy turvy: an Indian software firm that employs 500 people in Puerto Rico, a Chinese auto-parts maker with R&D centers in Detroit and Ontario, Calif. If you're a region trying to hang on to business, geography offers little protection anymore, especially as free-trade zones proliferate in countries from Dubai to Mauritius, and burgeoning heavyweights like Turkey take out full-page ads in US magazines boasting about their university graduates and gains in GDP. "Your competitors are in your backyard...
...you’ve never heard of the Born Ruffians before, that’s okay. Hailing from Toronto, Ontario, the boyish threesome is just beginning to make big waves on the hipster blog circuit as part of pop music’s continuing love affair with Canada. If you’ve never heard of Canada before, that’s okay too. It’s pretty much like the United States except colder, and with better beer and healthcare. Canada’s also home to most of your favorite actors and musicians—the ones...