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BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN bookseller, Indigo Books & Music Inc. has announced that it has more than tripled its annual profit due to a significant increase in online sales. Indigo earned CDN$4.3 million or 18 cents per share for the financial year ended March 31.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
GAZ Metropolitain, Quebec’s dominant natural gas distributor, will import LNG to avoid dependence on the resources of fellow Canadian province Alberta. Gaz de France and Enbridge, of Calgary, are also involved in setting up an import terminal and distribution network, costing over CDN$2.7 billion by 2009.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN federal government has announced tightened rules on animal feed that will prevent the use of risky cattle parts – associated with BSE – from being fed to any farm animals, including poultry and pigs. The measure is in addition to an existing 1997 ban forbidding cattle parts being fed to other cattle.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE CANADIAN government has hit back at criticism at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) from textile and clothing exporting countries that it (and other importing nations) have dragged their feet over abolishingtion of quotas under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN passports are to contain facial biometrics as recommended by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) under an anti-terrorist initiative costing Canada’s federal government CDN$10 million. The technology involves a camera capturing holders’ images, computer chips being embedded in the passports to carry their personal information and a central computer database of their images being created.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE USA’s ARCHIBALD Candy Corp. will try again to sell Canadian confectioner Laura Secord after a failed attempt last year because of complications arising from Archibald’s restructuring. Chocolate and iced cream specialist Laura Secord employs 1,600 employees and operates 166 shops across Canada.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
TWO major Canadian meat-packing firms have been threatened with daily CDN $250,000 fines if they miss a May 20 deadline for producing financial details demanded by Canada’s House of Commons, investigating the how CDN$1.6 billion of aid during the recent BSE crisis was used.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
VINCOR International, Canada’s largest winery, has recently formed a partnership with north-American retail goliath Wal-Mart to sell its wines in its megastores. Three of Vincor’s own-brand wine boutiques (called Wine Rack) have appeared in Wal-Mart outlets in Ontario cities selling popular Canadian wine lines such as Jackson-Triggs and Inniskillin.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
EXPOSURE to air pollution may harm un-conceived children according to a study performed by Canadian researchers published in the journal Science. The study from McMaster University, Hamilton, revealed that the offspring of mice exposed to high levels of air pollution had significantly greater rates of genetic mutations than mice housed in a non-polluted environment.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S Molson Inc. has launched a slim 250-ml beer can, a first in the Canadian beer market. The company hopes consumers will view the new packaging as “cool” and a “conversation-starter”. Eight of the skinnier cans, containing Molson Canadian, Dry or the company’s new low-carb Ultra brand, are priced the same as a six-pack of standard 355-ml cans.…