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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.…

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
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 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 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
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
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
A BOARDROOM battle has erupted in the offices of the Fishery Producers International, a Canadian company and currently one of the largest seafood processors in North America, which was established by Canadian federal and Newfoundland governments in the 1987 to help the struggling north-west Atlantic fisheries.…

BY MONICA DOBIE AND KEITH NUTHALL
DAIMLER Chrysler Canada and Ford Canada have been trying to persuade the Canadian federal government to replace the now defunct 1965 Canada/United States auto pact with a system of assistance that would not be so open to a challenge at the World Trade Organisation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN take-over victim Chapters has been given five months to sell off 13 superstores and 10 mall retail outlets before the job will be handed over to a trustee, who will have four months to divest the assets, according to an interview given by its new boss Heather Reisman in the Canadian journal Quill and Quire.…