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Gains like that, multiplied across scores of industries, will be much on the minds of President Bush and the other 33 heads of government from Latin America and Canada when they gather later this month in Quebec City for the third Summit of the Americas. Topping the agenda: how to move forward with the Free Trade Area of the Americas, an ambitious effort launched in 1994 to create a single market, free of trade barriers, from the southern tip of Chile to the Arctic Circle, with a population of 800 million and a total annual income of $11 trillion...
Many executives harbored similar fears about the NAFTA treaty, but it has delivered far more opportunities than disruptions. That's the strongest argument that proponents of freer trade will bring with them to Quebec City...
UMass-Lowell sophomore Ron Hainsey headlined the defensemen named to the team. Hainsey recently signed with the Montreal Canadiens and was optioned to their Quebec AHL franchise. Hainsey was the fourth-leading scorer among the nation's defensemen this season and the 13th pick of the 2000 entry draft...
...compressed snow and ice. Its domed ceilings are 16 ft. at their peak; its walls are 7-ft. thick. In the hotel, an ice chandelier shimmers over world-class ice sculptures of various subjects, including animals, an igloo and Inuit as they go about their life. Paintings of wintry Quebec scenes are encased in ice in one of two separate art galleries. There's even a little movie theater, where pelts cover the stadium-style seats and I catch a short film about the North...
Desbois, a Quebec businessman, got the idea in 1996 from an article about the first, and at that time only, ice hotel, in Sweden. "Why not build an ice hotel here in Quebec?" he asked himself. If some 40,000 visitors a year were willing to travel to a tiny village 125 miles above the Arctic Circle to visit the Swedish ice hotel, Desbois reasoned, how many more would come to one in a place as accessible as the city of Quebec, which already attracts more than 6 million visitors each year? Once armed with partners, funding and a feasibility...