Finance & Economics

Articles in Finance & Economics

Insight into the worlds of business, economics, and finance from some of Canada’s leading journalists.


October 2005

Betting on Separation

How speculation on the Quebec referendum nearly ended in financial disaster


April 2005

Shifting Sands

Canada has plenty of oil, while China and the US are thirsty and desperate


March 2005

Open for Business

How international corporations are exploiting our nation’s positive image with little more than a postal box


April 2004

Rough Trade

How Canada’s diamond bonanza is turning a secretive industry inside out

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The Beauty in Beasts
The Beauty in Beasts
by Anna Torma | JUNE 2004
“IN Hungary, when I was a child, the women in almost every household embroidered. They embellished objects

Sistani’s Silent Partners
Sistani’s Silent Partners
by Hugh Graham | FEBRUARY 2005
The mysterious Al Dawa party, in league with head cleric Ayatollah Sistani, may be the new powerbrokers in post-election Iraq.