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BY MONICA DOBIE
THE LIKELIHOOD of Inco’s Voiseys Bay, Labrador, nickel mine project going ahead has come a step closer with the company revealing plans to take on a partner. At a Canadian mining conference, Inco announced that it had bought out a group of shareholders in the project, giving it more control.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
DALLAS based Hunt Oil Co. has taken over Chieftain International Inc., an Edmonton-based and Canadian-owned natural gas producer, with assets in the Gulf of Mexico, for CAN$915-million. Hunt is offering US$29 in cash for each Chieftain share and is to assume US$15-million of debt.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GOVERNMENT of Canada has formally made an application to host the ITER international fusion test reactor, at a site near Clarington, Ontario. Ottawa’s move was made in Moscow by its ambassador to Russia, Rod Irwin, in the presence of representatives of other countries involved in the project; it is the first such bid.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
TWO Canadian cigarette pack sleeve businesses, Bootiez and Cigarette Cover, have sold more than 2.5 million card covers to local shops across the country. Both companies have been doing a thriving business selling cigarette pack covers to smokers who prefer to look at frolicking kittens and bikini clad women instead of the diseased hearts and lungs that have been ordered to appear by Ottawa.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN oil industry has taken the unusual step of launching a campaign to persuade consumers to use less petrol and diesel, because its companies do not want to invest in new refinery capacity that could in future become redundant.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
MOLSON Inc. has announced that it will close its Regina, Saskatchewan brewery as part of a cost-cutting scheme, which will save the company $150 million (CND) over a period of three years.

“Our review of our capacity utilisation in our western Canadian brewery network has unfortunately led us to make this difficult decision,” said Daniel J.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A CANADIAN government advisory group has called for increased numbers of seals to be hunted, to help recovering Atlantic fish stocks, which are estimated to be at 10 per cent of what they were 20 years ago.

The Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (FRCC) said that the seal population has over-expanded and that its numbers must be controlled.…

BY MONICA DOBIE AND KEITH NUTHALL
A MERGER of the e-commerce operations of Canadian book retailers Chapters Inc. and Indigo Books and Music is to go ahead, before official federal government approval has been secured for the union of the two companies.…

BY KATE REW
THE NEW edition of the global code, which sets the standard for imports and exports of healthy fish has just been released. The third version of the International Aquatic Animal Health Code published by Office International des Epizooties (corr), lists the diseases that would stop the import or export of fish, molluscs and crustaceans, under international trade laws.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A 15 per cent year-on-year jump in Canadian timber exports to the United States has alarmed American wood industry lobbyists, who are accusing the Canadian timber industry of flooding the US market before protective duties of up to US$8 billion per year are imposed, maybe this summer.…