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For businesses and individuals, this handbook reveals why you don't have to be among the mega-rich to take advantage of offshore banking. Surveying over 25 locations from the Bahamas to Bahrain, to Singapore and Switzerland this allows you to diversify and profit from global investments, maintain financial privacy and reduce your tax burden.

Canadian Human Rights Champions recounts the inspiring stories of a select group of advocates who have fought to secure civil, social, and political rights for all Canadians. The book profiles thirty-eight remarkable individuals, delving into their motivations, the challenges they overcame, and the opportunities they seized, while underscoring the crucial importance of defending human rights. It reveals how these champions devoted themselves to an often arduous and challenging struggle, making lasting contributions to building a more just and equitable society in Canada. Adopting a comprehensive approach, the book focuses on a "basket of rights" drawn from the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, highlighting fundamental freedoms such as the right to association, expression, and equality protections against discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability. It also explores the existing and evolving rights of Indigenous peoples in the context of treaties and international agreements, the Canadian Constitution, reconciliation, as well as the crucial emerging right to a clean environment. In addition to honouring Canadian heroes, the anthology also highlights those who have championed human rights on the international stage. Canadian Human Rights Champions celebrates the next generation of young activists who are leaving their mark in shaping our collective future and providing hope in these challenging times.

This directory presents, in narrative form, core information about the operations of approximately 100 Aboriginal literacy programs throughout Canada. To qualify for inclusion in the directory, each program had to offer basic, functional, or advanced literacy training; offer literacy training in English, French, or an Aboriginal language; be "Aboriginal controlled"; and attract learners who are "return students." The program profiles are arranged by province and include contact information, host organization, communities served, program mission and objectives, program features, and unusual features or concerns. Some Quebec program descriptions are presented in French. Programs are hosted primarily by First Nation Band Councils and Aboriginal community centers. The programs in the directory have met and overcome a number of challenges: the isolation and onerous responsibilities of literacy practitioners, inadequate financial resources, the need to provide a safe and welcoming environment, the need to develop a curriculum that is both culturally relevant and relevant to adults' lives, transportation and daycare obstacles, learners' personal problems that decrease motivation, and inadequate access to technology and technical assistance. Successful programs share several critical features: a safe and welcoming environment, supportive community leadership, competent program staff, community support resources, adequate human and financial resources, relevant personalized programming, and appropriate curriculum. Information is presented on funding and support available from the National Literacy Secretariat, and an agenda for a national Aboriginal literacy conference is suggested.

Copies of letters to Peter Russo concerning exchanges of books and art objects between Japanese and Australian libraries, and items relating to the Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai (Society for International Cultural Relations) Tokyo.