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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILERAL Investment Guarantee Agency, (MIGA), of the World Bank has dismissed claims that the Barrick Gold Corporation, of Canada, and the Tanzanian government were implicated in the alleged deaths of miners during an official operation to fill unsafe mine shafts in 1996.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL
CHOCOLATE sales have been buoyed in north America following the terror attacks in the United States and the deepening recession says John Rowsome, President of the Confectionery Manufacturers of Canada. Speaking to the Toronto Globe and Mail he said: “Candy sales are exceedingly buoyant.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT was telling that the first step taken by President Bush against Islamic terror groups following the World Trade Centre disaster was to freeze bank accounts. The international community has now responded by agreeing common controls to stop terror groups laundering funds.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CHAPTERS Online Inc., Canada’s leading online book retailer, that was once the Internet arm of the Chapters chain of bookstores in the country, has been officially bought out by shareholders of Indigo Books & Music Inc., the same company that swallowed up its former parent earlier this year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
HEATHER Reisman, CEO of Canada’s Indigo Books and Music Inc., has banned copies of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf from bookshelves in the merged chain’s 200 plus Indigo and Chapters outlets. “We consider it hate literature. With freedom of expression, the line is drawn on hate literature.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEALTH experts have been discussing a report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, (OECD), which has shown Britain performs poorly against its competitors in western Europe and north America, regarding the number of nurses employed per head of population in the late 1990’s.…

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 MONICA DOBIE
ROTHMANS Inc., (Canada), has reported increased year-on-year profits of 34.6 per cent to CAN$24.1 million or CAN$0.73 per share for the second quarter which ended on September 30, compared with $17.9 million or 54 cents per share in the same period last year.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE USA takes more scientists and engineers from Britain than from any other country in the western industrial world, according to the latest Science, Technology and Industry indicators published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

The report shows that 7,086 scientists and engineers from the UK are at present employed in the US, followed by 5,351 from Canada, 2,298 from Germany and 1,843 from Korea.…