January 5, 2009

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‘Grey Cup is the one event that brings all Canadians togethereven Quebecers and Albertans’

THE HEADLINE of your cover story about the financial crisis asks, “How bad will it get?” (Special Report, Dec. 8). Here’s how bad it will get. I won’t be able to buy lottery tickets anymore. I won’t be able to buy that big house I’ve often dreamed of. I’ll have to eat at home and wear clothes from last year.

INTERVIEW

'I've been green since day one. I travel by reindeer, for crying out loud! Their dung fuels the furnaces at the North Pole.'

SANTA, COURTESY OF GERRY BOWLER, TALKS TO KENNETH WHYTE ABOUT CHRISTMAS LIGHTS, SHOPPING, RECESSIONS AND PERSONAL ATTACKS

BUSINESS

What you don't Know can hurt a lot

As is so often the case in the complicated and opaque world of hedge funds, it is not yet entirely clear what happened at Sextant Capital Management. But if the allegations levelled by the Ontario Securities Commission are accurate, it went something like the plot of a Dan Ackroyd movie from the ’80s.