From the Archives

Ghosts of gift guides past

From July 2008, our feature on the life of Canada’s generic drug king

Doris Giller loved books. And she loved Jack Rabinovitch, who created the Giller Prize to make sure we’d never forget her

Months before the market crumbled, she wrote a best-seller about careless investments and crushing debt. This isn’t the first time she’s had prophetic visions.

Loblaw’s decline is a story of clashing egos, professional jealousy and strategic screw-ups, the biggest mistake being the company’s decision to try to out-Wal-Mart Wal-Mart.

In the early morning of February 21, 1974, Tim Horton drove off the Queen Elizabeth Way at over 250 kilometres an hour trying to avoid a police roadblock, killing himself, shattering a family, ending a business partnership and setting in motion the process that would erase the memory of who he really was