What in The World is Happening?
Providing a whirlwind tour of the leading nations of the world, Diane Francis
returns home to deliver an in-depth analysis and comparison of the Canadian
business and political landscape. In her shoot-from-the-hip style,
Diane calls attention to the pitfalls and opportunities facing Canadians
as we struggle to be ever more competitive.
Bre-X: The Inside Story
No one can tell readers and listeners why all that glitters is not gold
better than Diane Francis. At the helm of the most respected business journal
in the country, Diane monitored the incredible rise and shattering fall
of Bre-X. This is an in-depth look at the circumstances, events and lies
surrounding the Bre-X mining scandal that will track the steps and the
avoidable mistakes for future investors. Intensive investigation reveals
not only the Why, but also the Who and How to one of the world’s most lucrative
gold discoveries that ended in a woe-full tale of fool’s gold.
From the underground economy to Bre-X,
from Canadian unity to the Clinton administration, Diane Francis' provocative
and down-to-earth presentations explain what the continuously changing
headlines mean to you and your organization. She has all the inside
information about how our economy - and your business - will be affected.
Connecting the news to our daily lives, Diane's identification with the
business person is genuine and unbeatable.
Diane Francis’ meteoric rise in Canadian business journalism
is unparalleled by any other woman in the country. Starting as a
columnist for the Toronto Star, Ms. Francis is now Editor-at-Large of the
National Post, formerly the Financial Post, Canada’s oldest and foremost
business journal: the newspaper of record for business, investment and
political news, with its Opinion pages often propelling the national agenda.
Renowned for her column which appears in The National
Post, and syndicated in The Southam newspaper chain, Diane Francis also
contributes a column in Canada's only national news magazine, Maclean's.
As a broadcaster, she is heard on major market radio stations across the
country, and as a commentator on television.
Ms. Francis speaks around the country on how the headlines
affect Canadian business and how Canadian business make their own headlines.
 The Books
of Diane Francis
The future is very bright for Diane Francis. Her newest book: Bre-X:
The Inside Story is bound to be the final word on just what happened
in one of the world’s most lucrative and devastating mining scandals.
Her first book, Controlling Interest - Who Owns
Canada, reveals the alarming concentration of ownership in Canada
- where 32 families and five conglomerates own one-third of the country's
corporate assets.
In her second exposé, Contrepreneurs, Francis investigates
three types of "contrepreneurial" activity: boiler rooms, stock-market
swindle and money laundering. Contrepreneurs has since become an investigative
primer for police forces around the world.
The Diane Francis Inside Guide to Canada's 50 Best Stocks,
takes a positive look at Canadian business. From the 440 companies followed
by institutional investors, Diane recommends 50 companies which she feels
are well run, have good management practices, treat their shareholders
well -- and make money.
Her fourth book, A Matter of Survival, is about the challenges
Canada faces in a brutally competitive world economic environment, and
how the country is badly out of sync with global trends.
Diane's fifth book, Underground Nation, explores the dangers
Canada must overcome if it is to survive in the 21st century.
Her last book, Fighting for Canada, in many ways begins
where the country nearly ended, after the Referendum of 1995, and explores
what Canada's three Quebec prime ministers and their political parties
have allowed to occur during the past 30 years. Diane Francis no-holds-barred
approach to journalism comes through in this highly controversial book. |
