It would not only improve the image of the province, it would also be fairer to those living here, she said. The Irish Model, which has transformed Ireland in the last 30 years from one of the poorest countries in Europe to among its richest, is being claimed by both Bernard Landry and Liberal leader Jean Charest as their model for Quebec's future. Charest sees tax cuts behind Ireland's prosperity and proof that the economic interventionism proposed by Landry is a dead-end. At least, that's how it seemed at the time, when every tiny company with a dot in its name was the future Micro-soft. The Gazette Brian Neysmith calculates that this is the seventh bear market he's lived through in a long career of watching corporate Canada.
Every bear market starts differently from the last one.
A reassuring constant amid the past few months of ever-worsening business news has been the confidence of most economists that whatever we were facing, it wasn't a recession. The Gazette Davey Hilton waited 19 years to fight for, and subsequently win, a world boxing championship - one that he might never get the opportunity to defend. Hilton was found guilty yesterday on nine counts of sexual abuse against two young sisters. Quebec court Judge Rolande Matte denied Hilton bail, ordering him back in court April 19, when sentencing arguments are scheduled to begin. He faces a maximum 14 years in prison.