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BY MARK ROWE

IS the recession’s worst over for the jet fuel aviation industry? Passenger traffic during this late spring and summer has risen sharply compared with flights year-on-year, giving hope to an industry that Giovanni Bisignani, director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), described last year as "structurally sick".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE HIGH profile criminal cases against ex-Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling and Canada-born former newspaper owner Lord Conrad Black have led to the United States Supreme Court reducing the scope of America’s ‘honest services’ statute, used to convict many fraudsters.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

THE SUNFLOWER family is joining the ranks of other genetically sequenced oil crops, as a Canadian-led project maps the sunflower genome, part of the largest flowering family on the planet – with significant potential for commercial benefit for the oils and fats sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank is to invest about Canadian dollars CAD2.1 million (US dollars USD2 million) in Edmonton, Alberta-based Mindoro Resources Ltd to support a nickel exploration project in the Philippines.

Mindoro, a Canada-based mining exploration company, will use the IFC’s investment to explore for nickel at Agata, in the Surigao district on Mindanao Island.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

ON Canada Day – July 1 – Apple Inc launched the Canadian version of its iBookstore application, compatible with the iPad and other Apple products – but the enthusiasm from Canadian publishers has varied.

HarperCollins Canada was quick to get on board: beginning that day, thousands of Canadian titles from the multinational publisher were available through the application.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and ALYSHAH HASHAM

CANADA – long a difficult jurisdiction for the tobacco sector – became tougher still on July 5, when a national ban on manufacturing and selling most flavoured cigarettes, cigarillos and blunt wraps came into force.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MONOPOLY spirits retailer in the Canadian province of Ontario has promised to maintain a retail sales ban on a vodka produced by a local film star because its bottle is skull-shaped. Ontarian Dan Akroyd, most famous for his roles in 1980s classics ‘Ghost Busters’ and ‘The Blues Brothers’, has become a successful wine producer and last year released Crystal Head Vodka, a premium vodka sold in a clear glass skull bottle.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

HEAVY road vehicles operating in Canada are to become subject to tougher emissions standards from 2012, the country’s federal government has announced. Mirroring similar moves in the USA, the Canadian regulations will be released this autumn and cover lorries, pickup trucks, delivery vehicles, buses, dustcarts and construction vehicles.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and EMMA JACKSON

AUSTRALIA’S tobacco industry can be expected to put up a strong fight against a federal government proposal to mandate plain paper packaging for its products. And it will doubtless have the support of the international tobacco industry because this planned legislation is a clear test case.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

FORMER Penguin International CEO David Davidar has released his side of an ongoing sexual harassment case, with a statement outlining that he and a former Penguin Canada employee had "a consensual, flirtatious relationship." Lisa Rundle, 37, filed a statement of claim for sexual harassment against him on June 9, one day after Penguin fired Davidar because of the accusations.…