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Canada's vast forests, which cover nearly 400 million hectares, make up 10 per cent of the world's forests. Still, our national canopy is threatened and consistently at risk. Over the [...]

David Radler is on the phone from Vancouver. It is Saturday, but no matter, Radler is in the office anyway, the cruddy one on West 5th Avenue, the one littered [...]

PAPER CADAVERS: THE ARCHIVES OF DICTATORSHIP IN GUATEMALA Kirsten Weld After 36 years of brutal civil war, Guatemala entered into an uneasy peace in 1996. Although a UN-sponsored Commission for [...]

THE DIVORCE PAPERS Susan Reiger For many reasons, I spent an inordinate amount of time in 2013 reading legal documents. At their worst, they are turgid, bloated monsters, never straying [...]

The phone rang at 8:30 a.m.--and from that moment, the clock started ticking. 'A race against time,' to borrow the words of RCMP Deputy Commissioner Mike Cabana. On the other [...]

The Garrick Club is 163 years old, which is not old at all by the standards of London's private clubs. It was founded as a place for actors to meet [...]

LIVING ON PAPER: LETTERS FROM IRIS MURDOCH Edited by Avril Horner, Anne Rowe 'Letters should aspire to the condition of talk,' Murdoch, the British novelist and philosopher, at one point [...]

In line with its previously announced plan to dispense with all of its newspapers except the Toronto-based Globe and Mail, Thomson Corp. sold 38 of its U.S. papers to two [...]

Kamloops, B.C., is close to some of the finest forests in Canada. But having all those trees nearby is not making it any cheaper--or easier--for publisher Brian Butters to get [...]

On March 24, Mark Maslin, like the other members of Scientific Reports' editorial board, received an email with huge ramifications. The message--from the academic journal's publisher, Nature Publishing Group--told Maslin [...]

The bookshelf in Ken Whyte's office betrays a hint of his not-so-secret passion. Tucked amid works about politics, economics and biographies of former prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and Brian Mulroney [...]

A new voice has entered the media fray in Iraq, one with a Canadian twist. Soma, meaning 'perspective' in Kurdish, is a biweekly English-language digest published out of Iraqi Kurdistan. [...]

For his first 'toss,' Michael Jackson--a.k.a. Zack Teitel, 24, from Richmond Hill, north of Toronto--throws Scissors. It's a radical gambit: Scissors is widely considered to be a female-favoured play, compared […]

In the end, Lucia Vega Jimenez chose death over deportation. Locked inside an immigration holding centre at Vancouver International Airport--her final stop before a one-way flight home to Mexico--the 42-year-old [...]

At the first Toronto preview of Frankenstein earlier this month, Catalyst Theatre company tried something different, though tame by its usual audacious standards. The Edmonton-based ensemble staged a midnight show [...]

It was an empire built upon scratchy radio stations, weekly newspapers and the hardscrabble mentality of Northern Ontario in the midst of the Great Depression. Founder Roy Thomson was like [...]

Despite an edict by Globe and Mail editor-in-chief John Stackhouse, designed to limit gawking, that newsroom staff 'only come in to the building if you must be on-site,' several senior [...]

Early in his campaign to build a worldwide media empire, Australian newspaperman Phillip Cromwell (John Bach), a character loosely based on Rupert Murdoch, pauses to reflect on his good fortune. [...]

On days off, Calgary graduate student Darren Jakal likes nothing better than to be a fly on a wall -- of rock, that is. An avid climber, Jakal steals away [...]

Domtar Inc. agreed to buy Ottawa-based E. B. Eddy Ltd. from George Weston Ltd. of Toronto for $803 million, making it the country's largest producer of fine papers. Montreal-based Domtar [...]

MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. of Vancouver announced the $850-million sale of its paper subsidiary to a group of unnamed private investors. The sale includes the company's mills in Port Alberni and [...]

When Canwest placed its newspaper group into bankruptcy protection, many worded Canada would lose some of its most storied local newspapers, plus an important national paper. But a number of [...]

Peter Milliken's low-key way of speaking doesn't automatically command attention. His stature, short and thickset, doesn't make him an imposing physical presence when he rises to address MPs. But the [...]

The Russian government has evidently heard enough criticism of its attempts to stifle criticism. This week, tax police raided the Moscow headquarters of Amnesty International, as well as a Russian-based [...]

Papers show Boyle knew immediately of the deaths in Somalia High above the picturesque Rideau Canal in downtown Ottawa, 35 of Canada's leading defence officials gather at 8:30 a.m. for [...]

Former NDP leader and Halifax MP Alexa McDonough announced before the House rose she would not be running again. With an election called and her MP duties almost over, unpacking [...]

It's only natural that Vancouver-based author William Gibson, wildly successful with his sci-fi works, looks beyond the present when it comes to the printed word. The e-book 'doesn't fill me [...]

It's not often a barroom-calibre brawl breaks out in the life of a political scientist. But a serious battle has erupted over a presentation given last June by professor Frances [...]

Reports on the soaring cost of paper prices in Canada. Increasingly bitter struggle between cash-strapped publishers and the pulp-and-paper industry that supplies them; Impact of rising paper prices on readers; Decline in number of trees to be harvested; No sign of any newsprint supplies emerging to relieve the pressure on publishers.

THIS IS THE YEAR I TEACH YOU TO REPLACE THE TOILET PAPER ROLL Yes, there are politicians who can keep promises, as Capital Diary found out when MPs were asked […]

If there was any doubt the athletic ideal has been corrupted by agents, publicists and bloated salaries, you can call an end to the debate. First FIFA, the Swiss-based governing […]

When senior executives at Montreal-based Domtar Inc. heard that several rival pulp-and-paper producers were about to issue new shares in their companies last month, they quickly swung into action. Even [...]

Cutting the papers down to size On the parcel scales at the local post office, the July 7 issue of The Saturday Star, the older and bigger of The Toronto [...]

Five years ago, rising prices drove Oonagh O'Hagan, an art student at the famed British art school Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, from charming Notting Hill to [...]

It sits on a warehouse shelf in Burnaby, B.C., an anomaly among the burnished hardwoods. Six feet long and made of green wicker, it is Gordon Robchan's lone attempt to [...]

Glenn Ralph Holmes was born to Agnes Eden and Percy Livingston Holmes in Regina on Sept. 15, 1939. He was 'the eldest of three boys. His father was a national […]

The principal business of Southam Inc. is delivering news to the public, but that commitment does not necessarily extend to the company's own operations. After Conrad Black, chief executive officer [...]

A `loonie' revolt Resisting the end of the paper dollar The cartoon displayed in the windows of some Edmonton stores showed a bird with bulging red eyes and a clenched [...]

They call it EBITDA. It stands for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, and it is the crucial measurement used to gauge financial performance at the big media chains. [...]

This is called, in the trade, drinking your own bathwater. No one in the country cares if Conrad Black actually starts his national newspaper, as he advertises, in the fall-no [...]

This week's cover, graced by 22-year-old graduating student Brenda Ha, heralds an extensive investigation of how big firms are recruiting top graduates at a few select universities in Canada. The [...]

After nearly five months of hearings, the public inquiry into the Canadian Airborne Regiment's ill-fated mission to Somalia in 1992-1993 wrapped up the first stage of its investigation amid controversy [...]