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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
THE BASIC pay of directors at 58 of the 60 largest Canadian public companies increased dramatically in 2003, due to longer working hours and the need for more attractive incentives to lure American talent. A Report on Business survey, published in the country’s Globe and Mail newspaper, found that base retainers paid to directors climbed 28 per cent in 2003 from 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE) has reported the difficulties Canada has had in fighting its British Columbia bird flu outbreak. The OIE said by May 3, 1.2 million birds had been destroyed in 40 firms in a controlled zone.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ATTACK has been made on the United States, European Union (EU), and other textile importing jurisdictions for waiting until the last minute to abolish most restrictive quotas under the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Textile and Clothing.…

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 Walmart to sell its wines in its megastores. Three of Vincor’s own-brand wine boutiques (called Wine Rack) have appeared in Walmart outlets in Ontario cities selling popular lines such as Jackson-Triggs and Inniskillin.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BULGARIA has announced it will build a second nuclear power plant to replace the outdated Kozloduy power station, which the European Union (EU) insists should be closed by 2006. Construction will take place at Belene, in northern Bulgaria where work started on building a 1,000-megawatt plant in 1987, but ceased in 1991 following environmental campaigns.…

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
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
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.…