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BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S new bookselling giant Chapters and Indigo Books & Music will put 23 retail outlets up for sale as part of an agreement with the country’s Federal Competition Bureau, paving the way for the imminent merger of the two chains.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
COCA-COLA Canada and Toronto-based Parmalat have launched high-level talks to resolve a potential legal dispute over which company has the rights to use the advertising slogan “Life tastes good”, a line that Coke just happens to have earmarked for a new global campaign.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA and the US have failed to solve the looming softwood lumber dispute at the Summit of the Americas, in Quebec City.

The US International Trade Commission will probably now hear claims by the American timber industry that Canada has flooded the US with cheap timber illegally and investigate how it contributed to the closure of 150 American lumber mills.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE EUROPEAN Commission has agreed to allow Canadian ice-wine, the specialised dessert wine made from frozen grapes, to be sold within the EU, after a long battle to have the designation of recognised by Brussels was finally won.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S LEADER in glass bottle making, Consumers Packaging Inc. has

appointed a new trouble shooter Brent Ballantyne as its Chief Restructuring Officer, a move that is expected to lead to an increase in bottle prices for the Canadian drinks industry.…

Keith Nuthall
THE MAN who launched ‘Sue-a-Shoplifter Ltd’ in Britain, perched on a settee in the meeting room of the Institute of Directors in London and told me that he was working for fun.

Not for Professor Joshua Bamfield the lure of lucre generated by the 45 per cent commission on damages or the mantle of the country’s greatest crime-buster, but instead academic curiosity, a project in his chosen subject, retail crime.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SLEEMAN beer, made by Canada’s third largest brewery, has been testing the British market through a brand development company.

David Stewart, marketing director for Marble Head Brand Development said that the brand had had a few hiccups, but he considers its future to be bright, and is preparing to re-launch it in selected off licences in the next 12 months.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND MONICA DOBIE
THE NEW Zealand government has imposed a series of trade restrictions, because of Foot and Mouth, clamping down on imports of venison, cattle semen and dairy from the UK and beef from Argentina, among many other products.…

BY MIKE FOX, in Montreal
WINNEPEG, in the Canadian prairie province of Manitoba, may sound like the sort of city which would only merit a small regional airport, but the Winnipeg Airports Authority (WAA) has big plans to exploit its unique position.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CANADIAN government is considering making some changes in its cattle feed policies in order to reduce the risk of BSE, following recommendations from a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation report earlier this month.

The UN named Canada as being at risk because it imports live cattle and parts for feed from countries that have had cases of the disease.…