Thanks for that information. I called Air Chart, and it's actually
sectional excerpts printed at the back, but that's good enough -- I
ordered the IFR and Topo atlases.

In Canada, our WACs are updated every decade or so, so the 1:500K VNCs
are really the *only* game for VFR. In the U.S., I like sectionals for
low-altitude flying (i.e. VFR underneath where terrain is an issue),
and I really appreciated the extra detail of the 1:250K TAC during a
flight last week in the SF Bay Area, as co-pilot of a rented Cessna 152
in less-than-perfect VFR around all those hills, but for a long
cross-country at 10,000 ft, however, I agree -- even in my slow
Warrior, at any decent altitude all the extra detail of the sectionals
is just wasted paper.