The Polaris Institute (www.polarisinstitute.org) is designed to enable citizen movements to re-skill and re-tool themselves to fight for democratic social change in an age of corporate driven globalization. Throughout the first half of 2005, Alcan’t and the Polaris Institute have joined forces to oversee a student internship program involving McGill students who completed a for-credit corporate research projects on ALCAN. Polaris provided the expertise in corporate analysis and their staff team trained and supervised the interns. This was a great opportunity for students to develop practical skills in critical analysis and corporate research and assist in the research and production of a corporate profile that will be used to promote corporate accountability.