May 4, 1998

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LETTERS

The Mail

Children of divorce I’m a 16-year-old girl whose parents broke up when I was 5. Your articles make it easier to realize that I’m not the only one dealing with such a complicated issue (“After divorce,” Cover, April 20). Even though I was so young, I can still tell you every detail about the day my father left.

COVER

Ottawa faces the big squeeze

Even at a time when they need to prove they have a heart, bankers still have a way of looking like bankers. The industry’s public relations machine has been revved lately: soft-focus television ads, barnstorming CEOs, speed-dialling lobbyists—all aimed at winning Ottawa’s approval for a pair of bank megamergers. By JOHN GEDDES9 min

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WIRELESS

PCS: A Canadian Success Story

With files from Trevor Marshall The deployment of personal communications services (PCS) has arguably been one of the greatest success stories in the Canadian wireless industry. Since the Minister of Industry, the Hon. John Manley, awarded four national PCS licences in December 1995, the winners - Microcell Telecommunications Inc., Clearnet Communications Inc., Rogers Cantel Inc. and the members of the Mobility Canada consortium -| have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in building and/or upgrading national networks.

COLUMNS

When the past becomes the future

In politics, as in clothing fashions, everything old becomes new again. Just as every teenager today in shoulder-length hair, skintight shirt and platform shoes looks airlifted straight from the pages of a 1973 high-school yearbook, so, in politics, do familiar names abound. By Anthony Wilson-Smith4 min