The first domestic food to be regulated by the federal government in the United States, margarine had a unique regulation history. No other food products has been so harshly treated throughtout the world. The American margarine policy up to the 1950s is generally considered remarkably severe. The Canadian policy was even more stringent and more enduring. The province of Quebec, and until very recently of Ontario, still prohibits the yellow coloring of margarine. This article compares the history of margarine regulation in the two countries and uses the interest-group theory of government to investigate why it was so stringent.

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L’absence de statistiques fiables, en particulier pour la période précédant les années 1950, nuit beaucoup à l’étude de l’histoire des finances publiques au Canada. Elle est sans doute due au fait que l’information contenue dans les comptes publics doit être totalement réorganisée si l’on veut en tirer une série statistique homogène.Intriguée par la croyance populaire que le gouvernement québécois n’ait pas été interventionniste avant la Révolution tranquille des années 1960, nous avons effectué ce travail pour les finances du Québec de 1867 à 1969 et construit des séries annuelles, globales et désagrégées, des dépenses et des revenus du gouvernement provincial.Pour en faciliter la diffusion, cet article présente les principales données, donne un aperçu des méthodes de construction et décrit sommairement l’évolution des finances publiques québécoises de la Confédération à la fin des années 1960.The historical study of the public finances in Canada is hampered by the very weak statistical base, especially prior to the 1950s. The reason may be that the primary source of data, the Public Accounts, need to be extensively rearranged before one can obtain consistent time series.Puzzled by the conventional view that the Quebec Government was not interventionist before the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s, we produce such a rearrangement for the Quebec accounts from 1867 to 1969 and build annual series, global and disaggregated, of the provincial government expenditure and revenue.In order to make the main statistical data easily available, this article provides the results, outlines the procedures used to derive them, and briefly describes the evolution of Quebec Government finance from Confederation to the end of the 1960s

The Project Management Institute (PMI) plays an important role in the training, career development, and recognition of information systems (IS) project managers. Indeed, not only do IS professionals account for a large proportion of the PMI constituency, but PMI is also influential in the training of IS project managers. This study explores further the contribution of PMI to IS project management by means of its main publication outlet, the Project Management Journal (PMJ). To do so, the contents of the 39 IS project management articles published in PMJ during 1988–2005 were analyzed. The article focuses on the following dimensions: the relative importance of IS project management articles published by PMJ; the profile of the authors of IS project management articles in PMJ; the main issues, in terms of IS project management, covered by PMJ; and the major gaps, in terms of IS project management, in the coverage of this domain by PMJ.