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Every day, Canadians discover that past practices, poor environmental controls, and gross mismanagement of hazardous substances have resulted in thousands of contaminated sites. The focus of this research paper has been placed on a subset of contaminated sites called brownfields. These sites exhibit good potential for other uses and are located in urban areas. Recently, non-government organizations (NGO) have begun to evaluate whether or not they can partner in the rehabilitation of brownfields. The Winnipeg-based Fort Whyte Centre felt that they had a role to play and partnered with Domtar Inc. in the rehabilitation of an old wood preservative treatment facility site in the community of Transcona, Winnipeg. Fort Whyte proposed and the community, government and Domtar accepted, turning the remediated site into a natural Bioreserve. While the partnership has provided a number of lessons for NGO involvement and can be replicated, it was unique in a number of ways. The Bioreserve provided the acceptable economic, environmental, and social/health solution to stakeholders. Government's decision to (a) ensure that the future end-use of the site remained compatible with the on-site management of the contaminated soil, as well as (b) their insistence that the existing parkland/recreational land use zoning remain in place, was a significant catalyst behind the success of this approach. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

Numerous countries require that defense manufacturers commit to substantial offsets when defense materiel is purchased. However, there is extremely limited data regarding the economic efficacy or rationality of offsets. Recent disclosures related to South Africa's controversial 1999 "Arms Deal" about the economic performance of its sizeable offset obligations provides solid evidence that the manipulation of offset scoring systems allowed defense manufacturers to invest far less than originally contracted. The South African experience indicates that there are likely to be structural features inherent in all civilian offsets flowing from defense contracts that exert a downward pressure on the actual economic investments delivered by defense manufacturers.

In this timely work, WHO RULES SOUTH AFRICA?, highly regarded authors Paul Holden and Martin Plaut analyse the political elites that battle daily for power in South Africa. They argue that power does not reside in traditional institutions such as Parliament or even the Cabinet. Rather, power lies within the ANC-led Alliance which, with no founding document and no written constitution, is an unstructured and mutable political hydra with business and criminal elements in close attendance. It is the interaction between these forces which is the real story behind post-apartheid South Africa. In a

South Africa: success story or basket-case? This year marks the centenary of the ANC. It is also the year when Jacob Zuma will fight for his political life, seeking to fend off opposition from within the Tripartite Alliance and retain his presidency. Now, more than ever, to the victor the spoils. With the country's politics poorly understood in the world, Paul Holden and Martin Plaut present the true story of post-apartheid South Africa. They depict a nation fighting against appalling unemployment, poor education, widespread corruption and organised crime. In a country where poverty is rampant and institutions are weak, the battle for power is set to intensify. Plaut and Holden seek to answer the burning question: is South Africa destined to become another African tragedy or is there still the promise of growth and a stable democracy?

The Arms Deal's taint of corruption has hovered spectre-like over South African politics since 1999, when Patricia de Lille's revelations first hit Parliament. In the foreword to The Arms Deal in Your Pocket, former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein describes the Arms Deal as 'the moment at which the ANC and the South African government lost their moral compass'. Paul Holden's succinct, informative and devastating handbook tells the story in the simplest way possible, providing a guide to what was bought (and why), who was involved and what was covered up. The chapters are ordered chronologically to a