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...December, Dartmouth divested itself of all its holdings in the company, Hydro-Quebec. Environmental activists from the Sierra Club and other organizations have charged that several Hydro-Quebec projects in Canada's James Bay Region are harmful to the environment and the 20,000 members of local Native American tribes...
This week's Boston Business Journal, in a report attributed to unnamed sources, said Harvard owns about $4 million worth of Hydro-Quebec bonds. But Harvard would not confirm that figure, and one University official said Harvard's Hydro-Quebec holdings may already have been sold...
Subcommittee members met with Rudenstine last February, requesting that Harvard divest itself of its holdings in Hydro-Quebec...
...Quebec, where the unemployment rate is 14%, the constitutional fight over the role of the province within Canada today borders on the irrelevant, compared with economic concerns. "Quebec sovereignty is all well and good," says Mayor Ulric Blackburn of the St. Lawrence River town of Chicoutimi, which was once solidly separatist, "but we're a little tired of that battle when jobs are really what matter." Quebec's 55.4% rejection of the constitutional agreement produced quite the opposite of political ferment. "After all these years of debates, referenda and what have you, what are we left with?" asks Louise...
...regionalization is already under way. The Atlantic provinces, once heavily dependent on Ontario and Quebec for manufactured goods, have now opened up wide to trade with northeastern U.S. states. Quebec and New York State have been forging similar links, while in the West, British Columbia's commerce with Washington State and Oregon has expanded far more rapidly than with the rest of Canada...