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Head Start: lan Graham's Graham Products Ltd. is preparing to compete under free trade by instituting a pay-equity plan ahead of schedule.
Head Start: lan Graham's Graham Products Ltd. is preparing to compete under free trade by instituting a pay-equity plan ahead of schedule.

Head Start: lan Graham's Graham Products Ltd. is preparing to compete under free trade by instituting a pay-equity plan ahead of schedule.

Date2/28/1990
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Scotty Dunbar, a guard at Canadian Tire's Brampton warehouse, says the company's profit-sharing plan has given him incomparable security for his old age. Dunbar, 49, has used his equity in Canadian Tire shares to pay off his mortgage and start a business that later failed. He still has more than $120,000 left. He hopes to retire in few years.
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Water worries: Ian MacDonald, president of Envirogard Products Ltd
Water worries: Ian MacDonald, president of Envirogard Products Ltd
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Fat buster: Bill Ruderman, national sales manager for Nacan Products Ltd
Fat buster: Bill Ruderman, national sales manager for Nacan Products Ltd
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Hopeful publisher Dick Bailey, 28, has an idea he feels could enable inventive people to make money by creating new products desired by manufactures. Bailey plans to put out a magazine filled with ads placed by manufacturers giving details of as-yet-uninvented items that they'd like to produce.
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In the forefront of word-processing technology, Stephen Dorsey's Micom Data Systems Ltd. has landed a contract for the U.S. space program. The tiny Montreal-based company, with sales last year of under $2 million competes on world markets against such heavyweights as IBM and Xerox.
In the forefront of word-processing technology, Stephen Dorsey's Micom Data Systems Ltd. has landed a contract for the U.S. space program. The tiny Montreal-based company, with sales last year of under $2 million competes on world markets against such heavyweights as IBM and Xerox.
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Canadian issues: Bob Packwood, left, voted for free-trade talks to go ahead
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