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BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

THE CHAIRMAN, CEO and founder of Canadian brewer Sleeman has said he will fight to keep his family name in the beer business, after a review of commercial options was ambushed and turned into a takeover battle.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

WHEN the Soviet Union disintegrated, its vast military complex left stocks of toxic waste behind as it split or retreated to Russia. Now an Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) project is trying to turn part of this refuse of war into something useful: rocket fuel into fertliser.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

DUTCH coatings giant Akzo Nobel NV has taken over Canadian paintmaker Sico Inc. for approximately CDN$284 million.

Akzo based in Arnhem, the Netherlands, will acquire all of Sico’s outstanding common shares at a cash price of CDN$20 per share and will also offer to buy Sico’s class B preferred shares for CDN$3.8 million in total.…

BY KENCHO WANGDI, in Thimphu, Bhutan

WHAT is happiness, really? In many developed nations such as in the US and Europe it is equated with money and prosperity.

Economists use GNP (Gross National Product) as representing the well-being of a nation, on the belief that material development, as measured by GNP growth, is correlated to human happiness.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

OIL sands deposits have been discovered in Canada’s northeast Saskatchewan, the mineral deposit that has helped enrich neighbouring Alberta. CanWest Petroleum Corporation and Oilsands Quest Inc say 19 of 24 drilling sites at the Firebag East zone yielded bitumen saturated sands.…

BY KENCHO WANGDI, in Thimphu, Bhutan

WHAT is happiness, really? In conventional development theory, it equals money and prosperity, as measured by GNP (Gross National Product).

But Bhutan, the famously remote and beautiful Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas, has been trying out a different concept.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FORMER Pentagon deputy Paul Wolfowitz has brought the zeal and energy he applied to invading Iraq to his new job as president of the World Bank. Only this time his target is corruption everywhere, rather than despotism in Iraq, and his weapons are legal and political, not bombs and missiles.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

IS the fuel cell bus a runner? The question is key to any passenger transport executive’s decisions on how to meet increasingly stringent emission controls, and the continuing EU HyFLEET:CUTE trials of a fleet of hydrogen-powered fuel-cell Daimler-Benz Citaro buses in London will help UK transport planners to decide for themselves.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Cairo

THE EGYPTIAN government has passed new compulsory standards for its country’s booming private university sector, because teaching quality at the eight independent universities established in Egypt in the past decade has sometimes been poor.

With so many new institutions chasing a quick buck, teaching and facilities has been unreliable, Professor Farag Elkamel, Dean of Mass Communications at the Al-Ahram Canadian University (ACU) told the Times Higher Education Supplement.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

CANADIAN scientists have confirmed a hybrid bear born of a grizzly bear and a polar bear was recently killed by a sports-hunter in Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT). The bear was a creamy polar bear colour but also had long claws, a humped back, shallow face and brown patches around its eyes and nose: grizzly traits.…