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BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S booksellers are expecting very profitable sales for Christmas, banking on the general public’s need to reflect and have quieter family time over this particular holiday season.

“Christmas will be good, very good. People are cocooning and books are wonderful to cocoon with,” said Richard King of Paragraph Bookstore in Montreal, one of the city’s larger bookstores.…

BY MONCA DOBIE
CONCERNS raised by some newspaper pundits over the recent Americanisation of Canada’s western oil fields are unfounded, according to both industry analysts and the federal government in Ottawa.

Columnists have raised their eyebrows about a series of deals in the past 10 months which has seen a clutch of key Alberta oil companies being taken over by large US rivals.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A CUP of coffee just isn’t a cup of coffee anymore; two leading Canadian companies are now using stylised knitwear to make the habit of drinking coffee even more about fashion lifestyle than it was before.

Customers at one of Canada’s leading coffee retailers, Second Cup, may soon be able to purchase cool ‘coffee clothing’ along with their tall skinny mocha lattes, (with cinnamon).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has lost a disputes panel case at the World Trade Organisation over definitive safeguard duties that it had imposed on imports of circular welded carbon quality line pipe from South Korea.

Although the panel rejected a number of South Korean complaints, it upheld enough of them to conclude that the US should “bring its safeguard measure into conformity with its WTO obligations.”…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN beer giant Molson has launched a new Indian Pale Ale, albeit a brand without the characteristic bitterness of the style. Part of the Molson Speciality Brands, the company describes Rickard’s Pale as being “reminicsent of traditional IPA’s without the hoppy taste.”…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN government has been urged to pass legislation that will force tobacco companies to make the cigarettes marketed as light or mild taste harsher.

A new report from one of Health Canada’s advisory bodies, the Ministerial Advisory Council on Tobacco Control, has recommended: “Once the government has addressed the issue of deceptive cigarette marketing, it should consider the issue of cigarette engineering that is misleading to smokers.”…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN Health Minister, Allan Rock has launched a campaign focusing on alerting consumers to six pollutants released when cigarettes are smoked, information that has been forced onto packs because of a federal labeling law. A direct mail package will be sent to family doctors, dentists, and oncologists across the country describing the health effects that benzene, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide, nicotine and tar.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
TALISMAN Energy Inc. has announced that it has made a substantial oil discovery in Trinidad, which could give the Canadian oil giant another profitable operations area. The company said that a 14-foot section of a 933-foot hydrocarbon column had produced 3,000 barrels-a-day in testing.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A FEDERAL appeals court in the United States has dismissed a case against RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, brought by the Canadian government, which was seeking to recover tax revenues allegedly lost because of cigarette smuggling through a Native Indian reserve.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE TORONTO Hydro-Electric System has launched a large-scale test of vegetable-based bio-diesel fuel in its fleet of more than one hundred cars, trucks and vans as a first step to converting to 100 per cent vegetable-based fuel.…