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BY JAMES BURNS

REYNOLDS American Inc has announced the appointment of Luc Jobin and Holly K. Koeppel to its board of directors. Both will serve on the board’s audit and finance committee.

The parent company of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Conwood Company, LLC, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, and R.J.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

THE WORLD’S largest maker of chips Canada-based McCain Foods has taken a potentially risky tongue-in-cheek advertising strategy – backing its namesake in the American presidential election.

Using a slogan "Why McCain should be in the White House," the New Brunswick company will add responses such as "McCain goes to war over oil" (referring to its avoidance of transfats), and also "McCain brings ‘smiles’ to millions," noting the company’s disc-shaped smiley face chips.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A COMPANY importing quality cigars from Nicaragua has been launched in Toronto, Canada. Former investment bank researcher Markus Raty has become president of Mombacho Cigars, which is backed by the president of independent beer-maker Steam Whistle Breweries Co – Cameron Heaps.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PHILIP Morris International is to acquire 100% ownership of Canada’s Rothmans, Benson & Hedges (RBH) from its parent Rothmans Inc. Philip Morris already owned 40% of RBH, and is now acquiring the rest of the shares for CDN$30 per share, in a deal worth around CDN$2 billion.…

By Monica Dobie

Canada’s most northerly territory, Nunavut, will have access to an advanced business management diploma programme operated by the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The Nunavut Advanced Management Diploma (NADM) programme will be offered in Rankin Inlet, a community of 2,358 people that serves as a business and transportation hub for central Nunavut, 85% of whose 29,000 population are aboriginal Inuit.…

By Keith Nuthall

Plans to sweep away some restrictions preventing private universities and higher education service providers from teaching, researching and examining in foreign countries have been put on ice at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

This follows the collapse of negotiations at the July ministerial meeting of the WTO IN Geneva, Switzerland, which had lasted 10 days.…

By Keith Nuthall

The launch of a new Euro-Mediterranean University in Slovenia dedicated to higher education courses focused on issues of importance to European, African and Levantine countries bordering the sea has been given a formal seal of approval. The creation of the institution was welcomed within a joint declaration issued by heads of state and government from 43 countries at a Paris summit launching a Mediterranean Union organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CONCERNS that Norway may reactivate claims over the Sverdrup Islands west of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada, have surfaced in the Canadian national press. Geological studies have shown the islands to have potential oil and gas reserves. Norway once claimed sovereignty because of a 1900 expedition.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) importers of seal meat will have to ensure the livestock were killed humanely in future, if new proposals from the European Commission are approved. It has tabled a regulation banning the trading of seal products within, into, and from the EU if producers have killed and skinned seals causing pain, distress and suffering.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A POWERFUL international bloc is debating forging an international anti-counterfeiting of goods agreement insisting upon cooperation over fighting fake drinks products. Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States have been discussing the idea in Geneva.…