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Victoria's Secret, the U.S. lingerie vendor best known for its catalogue of pneumatically enhanced underwear models, may soon be coming to a mall near you. Already a market leader south [...]

Alison Gopnik, a cognitive scientist and leading U.S. scholar, sees a lamentable irony in academic life. While universities are society's hothouses for intellectual discovery and learning, she's convinced the lecture--the [...]

Just days before a new fashion insert was to run earlier this month in the Toronto Star, the paper's fashion editor Bernadette Morra received a cease-and-desist letter from a Toronto [...]

Ivan Fecan made CTV champion of the Canadian dial. But can he stay on top? THIS WEEK, ABC will premiere a new series called Commander in Chief, touted as the [...]

IN 1996, Clive Beddoe and three other Calgary entrepreneurs launched WestJet-- a no-frills, cheap-seats, bus-in-the-sky airline. With three airplanes and 220 employees, it flew to five western Canadian cities. Today, [...]

Knock-offs of brand-name goods aren't just cheap and popular. They're illegal, writes KATHERINE MACKLEM. AS YOU ENTER the hall at the Oasis Convention Centre in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga, [...]

MAGGIE BRAS DOESN'T act the part of the matronly donor, that bustling, plump and proper creature of good intentions. Instead, at 57, she's sexy and indulgent, with eyelash-sweeping bangs and [...]

WHEN RESEARCH IN MOTION LTD., maker of the celebrated BlackBerry email device, agreed last week to pay US$450 million to settle a long-standing patent-infringement lawsuit, the news fairly buzzed through [...]

WHEN PAUL TELLIER took over the reins of Bombardier Inc. in January 2003, it appeared the family-controlled aerospace and rail giant was finally going to allow an independent boss to [...]

IN THE BEGINNING, circa 1966, there was the Brazilian Carnival Ball. Originally a church-basement party for homesick Brazilians who longed to warm up the Toronto winter, it grew into a [...]

Need a mason or plumber? Get in line--and hope new recruitment drives work fast. DOMENIC MASELLIS opens the passenger door of his gleaming white truck. "Step into my office," he [...]

More Canadians are crossing the border to shop lately. Maybe it's because the dollar's stronger. Or maybe, Katherine Macklem writes, it's for the fun of it. "Bringing anything back with [...]

ONE MORNING, 10 businesswomen gather for a breakfast meeting in a small conference room of a downtown Toronto office tower. We are there at the invitation of Ruth Bastedo, an [...]

The best employers do more than issue paycheques. They improve life in the workplace and in the surrounding community as well. THE CAFETERIA at Yamaha Motor Canada Ltd., with its [...]

DOMINIC D'ALESSANDRO, CEO of Toronto-based Manulife Financial Corp., last week unveiled a whopping $15-billion takeover bid for Boston-basedJohn Hancock Financial Services Inc. If the deal succeeds--it has the blessing of [...]

IF YOU THOUGHT medicare meant equal access for all, think again. A private club for smart Bay Street types has launched a fundraising campaign that is, at best, dubious. The [...]

WAWA, ONT., is a town known to crosscountry hitchhikers as a cursed spot. They say you can be marooned here for days, dusty and morose on the side of the [...]

WHEN ANDREW PRINGLE was a university grad -- and a young idealist -- he set out a game plan. First, make lots of money. Then, at age 40, enter politics. [...]

WHEN ROBERT MCEWEN got up to speak at his company's annual meeting earlier this month, his first words were: 'Gold is money.' It's become a mantra for the soft-spoken chairman [...]

MOSTLY THEY'RE already married when they step off the plane. But the Japanese newlyweds can't wait to stroll down the aisle at the old Campbell homestead in Park Corner, P.E.I. [...]

AS TOM MILLS, a former analyst with one of Canada's largest investment firms, puts it -- none too delicately -- the job he used to do was 'prostitute work, basically.' [...]

BRENT LESSARD, a 19-year-old with an angelic face and dreadlocks dyed jet black, recently made a copy of the 50th anniversary edition of The Wizard of Oz -- for himself. [...]

'I AM SITTING DOWN,' says Dov Charney nonchalantly. He is doing what he's almost always doing: talking on his cell. And he's responding to Dave, a salesman with Charney's apparel [...]

IT'S USUALLY pretty simple for Kandra Kaufield to get to work. The 27- year-old grade-school teacher from Charlottetown lives in suburban Hong Kong, a short walk from the train station [...]

IN A SPARE, elegant art gallery located near Toronto's tony Yorkville, three simple clothes racks stand slightly off-centre down the length of the room. Women's garments -- truly luscious items […]

ON AUG. 25, 2000, less than two years after winning a design-and-build contract with the U.S. government, Bombardier Inc. engineers were ready to test a spanking new high-speed train. They [...]

WHEN SEAN MAGUIRE inherited some money in 1997, he knew 'nothing' about investing. The 42-year-old Coquitlam, B.C., resident sought advice from four or five investment advisers, but came away disappointed [...]

AT AN ANNUAL GATHERING of CEOs at New York's exclusive St. Regis Hotel a few months ago, the executives grappled with the crisis of confidence gripping the business community. As [...]

WHEN JACK DZIERWA, a relative newcomer to Bay Street, wrote about bank mergers in a research report last July, he broached a subject still too sticky for some to want [...]

WHEN NORTEL Networks Corp.'s share price was $92 two years ago, Ray Puhalski bought 300 shares, investing $27,600. A month later, the stock was trading at $71.40. Puhalski invested again: [...]

WHAT DID THE PRIME MINISTER know and when did he know it? News that Jean Chretien had secretly scuttled the merger plans of two of Canada's Big Five banks prior [...]

WALK THROUGH the Vancouver offices of Crystal Decisions Inc., and you'll see all the classic markers of the high-tech craze -- right down to the foosball and billiards tables. There [...]

THE EXTREMES have been more like, X-treme. The greatest bull market ever. The longest-lasting bear since the '70s. The steepest three-day rally in 20 years on the Toronto Stock Exchange. [...]