Note: the following list of businesses will guide the user to entries for specific companies or business associations not made here, or in some cases made here secondarily, at the BUSINESS heading. Note also a small additional list at RESTAURANTS. In the electronic version of this index, a keyword search might be done for other company names that may be in the index but not in the following list.

The list comprises the following companies and business associations: ADOLPH COORS CO.; AIR CANADA; BANK OF MONTREAL; BELL CANADA; CANADIAN GAY AND LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE; CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY; CHRYSLER CORPORATION; CO-OPERATORS; FEDERATED CO-OPERATIVES LTD.; GENERAL MOTORS; GREAT-WEST LIFE; HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY; IMAGING EXCELLENCE; IMPERIAL OIL LTD.; KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN; KROLIK FASHION FUR CO. LTD.; LAMBDA BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CLUB OF WINNIPEG; MOLSON'S BREWERY; NATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA; PEPSI-COLA COMPANY; QUIZNOS; ROYAL BANK OF CANADA; SASKATCHEWAN GAY AND LESBIAN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION; SCOTT PAPER; SECOND CUP; T-C 4 GRAPHICS LTD.; UNITEL CANADA; UNITY PAGES (CALGARY)

Queer Inc. [opinion piece on the importance of gay/lesbian community, of mutual support, and of need to keep watch on businesses which put "profit, market share and discrimination" before "morals, ethics, and equality"]. By Georgena Hollingshead.
P91 (v12n6)(Sept. 14, 1994): 8 (43cm.)

Directory targets gay market [Greater Edmonton Pride Pages is directory of "about 140 local businesses and organizations"].
P106 (v14n5)(July 24, 1996): 11 (18cm.)

Lesbians denied insurance [for their Vancouver business, Womyns' Ware, which sells sex toys and fetish-wear; Western Union Insurance Co. turned down request for renewal of insurance].
P110 (v15n1)(Jan. 29, 1997): 26 (24cm.)

Lesbian kiss sells beer ["sometime this fall Molson Breweries will air a new ad that caused controversy even before it hit the airwaves"; "Liquor Licensing Board of Ontario refused the ad at first," but apparently not because of the kiss; further details].
P115 (v15n6)(Sept. 10, 1997): 27 (14cm.)

I don't want to help you [Swerve, Winnipeg lesbian/gay paper, had printing job turned down by "T-C 4 Graphics Ltd., a Winnipeg colour and imaging company"; firm's vice-president, Peter Weessies, informed Gilles Marchildon that company would not handle their work; on July 15, Swerve launched complaint to Manitoba Human Rights Commission; "problems faced by Swerve are not unique in the lesbian and gay publishing business"].
P122 (v16n5)(July 29, 1998): 12 (29cm.)

Resource Centre opens [newsnote that new retail business, Rainbow Pride Resource Centre, opened in Calgary in August; owner, Kevin Marriott; "store sells a variety of queer-oriented products," aims also to advertise queer community services].
P123 (v16n6)(Sept. 16, 1998): 10 (9cm.)

Rainbow card ["Lambda Business and Professional Club of Winnipeg is promoting the use of the Rainbow Discount Card"; a number of businesses have signed up since last July; details and contact].
P127 (v17n2)(March 10, 1999): 9 (18cm.)

Pride Pages [fifth edition of Greater Edmonton Pride Pages being prepared; annual list of businesses and services; contact and deadline information; "each year 5,000 copies...are printed and distributed..."; etc.].
P136 (v18n3)(April 19, 2000): 11 (15cm.)

Printer can't just say no [Ontario Human Rights Commission rules against Scott Brockie, owner of Imaging Excellence, for refusing to print material with words "lesbian" and "gay"; complaint filed by Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives; Brockie fined $5,000, is appealing; other details].
P136 (v18n3)(April 19, 2000): 28 (22cm.)

Out of the Closet: A Store for Gay Men & Lesbians [at GLHS Centre, Saskatoon] [display advertisement].
P140 (v18n7)(Oct. 25, 2000): 2 (12cm.)

Tiny bubbles [in which author discusses, primarily, the tendency of feminist, lesbian, queer projects to be announced but then not to materialize; her experiences of inquiring about announced undertakings and not receiving responses; "let's try to keep our own contribution to this trend down to a minimum"]. By Jean Hillabold.
P148 (v19n7)[misnumbered v19n6 on contents page](Oct. 24, 2001): 6, 8 (60cm.)

New media monolith [Gay Media Alliance formed in United States; "consortium will have power to target over 7,000,000 gay Americans via the media outlets they control"; there will be spill-over effect to Canada; "the new GMA will be the major point of access to the gay community for Fortune 500 companies..."; etc.].
P148 (v19n7)[misnumbered v19n6 on contents page](Oct. 24, 2001): 21 (26cm.)

Courting the gay market [Pepsi-Cola Company has "become one of the first major sponsors on Canada's gay television network," PrideVision; has been trying also to build relationship in US; is receiving criticism from gay and lesbian community for ad in Australia].
P152 (v20n3)(April 24, 2002): 22 (25cm.)

Royal Bank stands firm [refuses to open account for group, No Committee 2006, opposing 2006 Gay Games in Montreal; No Committee 2006 "comprised of some of Canada's most prominent anti-gay groups"; bank tells shareholders that it will not do business with organizations that promote hate or violate human rights; openly gay Ontario MPP George Smitherman spoke to shareholders on the issue; other details].
P152 (v20n3)(April 24, 2002): 25 (24cm.)

Letters: carbon copy [letter from Stephen Lock alerting readers to homophobic opinions of the owner of a Calgary business that caters to the "leather" community: Definitely Different Leatherworks, owned by Al Swanky; etc.].
P155 (v20n6)(Sept. 11, 2002): 9 (19cm.)

It's not discrimination if you're a prude [report that Ontario Superior Court has upheld 1999 decision of Human Rights Commission against Imaging Excellence Inc. printing company for refusing a Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives printing job; another printer has refused a job for The Voice, a southwestern Ontario magazine, and this situation is being investigated as to possibility of human rights complaint].
P155 (v20n6)(Sept. 11, 2002): 27-28 (26cm.)

Settled at last [concerning complaint filed by Gilles Marchildon against T-C 4 Graphics Ltd. and Peter Weessies, Winnipeg, in 1998 over refusal of a printing job for the Pride issue of Swerve magazine; complaint resolved through mediation; company has predominantly Mennonite staff and management; other details].
P158 (v21n1)[cover misnumbered v201](Jan. 22, 2003): 11 (24cm.)

Quiznos complaint [two Winnipeg gay men in a relationship, Manuel Maria and Mike Goulet, have filed human rights complaint; claim they were fired from their Quiznos Subs and Salads jobs when co-owner discovered they were gay; details].
P164 (v21n7)(Oct. 22, 2003): 11 (19cm.)

New HIV campaign stalled [first Canadian national AIDS prevention campaign halted because Pattison and Astral Media, Canada's largest outdoor advertising companies, have refused to run "the provocative billboard ads aimed at gay men"; details].
P170 (v22n5)(July 21, 2004): 28 (18cm.)

Queer business group [R. Bruce McDonald, co-founder of Canadian Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, in Saskatoon August 25, 2004 to discuss objectives of organization with business and professional people; focus of the organization; meeting has been scheduled for October 22 to discuss formation of Saskatoon group; contact information; etc.].
P171 (v22n6)(Sept. 15, 2004): 13 (20cm.)

New business group forming [group met October 22, 2004 to discuss formation of "Saskatchewan Gay & Lesbian Business/Professional Association"; details, including time and place of second scheduled meeting].
P172 (v22n7)(Oct. 27, 2004): 10-11 (39cm.)

No safe spaces wanted ["far-right Christian organization," Canada Family Action Coalition, calling on Royal Bank clients to end dealings with bank because of a Safe Space sticker campaign; details, including bank reaction].
P172 (v22n7)(Oct. 27, 2004): 14 (31cm.)