General

This 1987 book begins with a scene from the American invasion of Grenada: as politicians in Ottawa argued whether Canada had been misled or merely ignored over the invasion, the fighter aircraft, helicopters, and ships used in the operation employed key Canadian components.

Grenada was only too typical of Canada's involvement in the international a …

This volume offers a detailed overview of the state of the Atlantic Canadian economy in the mid-1980s.

Major primary and secondary sectors--the fishery, forestry, manufacturing--are treated in separate sections, while additional chapters consider the state of transportation, investment, development, and labour markets. The text is supplemented with …

How much money is too much? And how fast is too fast in life?

Investment star Paris Smith steps onto the top rungs of the corporate ladder, only to discover he is caught between his need for fulfillment and his need for understanding, between his drive for power and his inability to cope with his growing emptiness where there was once love. When his …

When it was first published in 1972, Corporate Canada offered a down-to-earth book about Canadian business and government economic policy.

It offers contemporary case studies of Eaton's, the CPR, the family farm; it examines the continuing U.S. influence on sectors of the Canadian economy including energy and electronics; and assesses the ongoing de …