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BY MEGAN DETRIE, IN CAIRO

A YEAR after the break out of the civil war in Libya which ousted Colonel Muammar Gaddafi from power – but paralysed the economy – the north African country’s airports are just now beginning to reopen, with construction projects likely to resume in the coming months.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

While Ontario’s tobacco growing industry has faced hard times in recent years – with production reaching an all-time low back in 2008 – the sector is now gaining back some of its lost momentum. Tobacco leaf production has stabilised since the removal of the tobacco quota system back in 2009, and the industry is now seeing rising production numbers and renewed interests from the export market.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS, IN OTTAWA

AFTER a week of media speculation that independent Canadian bookseller Nicholas Hoare would be closing the doors of his namesake stores in Ottawa and Montreal, it has been confirmed that both locations will be shutting down, largely due to huge rent increases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE US government is appealing against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling that its country-of-origin rules for various foodstuffs are so tough, they break global trade agreements. Canada and Mexico had successfully brought dispute proceedings against the US over America’s COOL (country-of-origin labelling) rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND KITTY SO, IN OTTAWA; AND CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS

KNOWING how to speak two languages in a country where there are two official languages is always going to be a good bet. But as well as the delights of knowing you peanuts from your arachides and your gelée from your jelly, there are whole host of additional cognitive advantages to mastering two tongues rather than one.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN, IN EDMONTON

CANADA’S smaller iron ore producers stand to benefit from the recent announcement by the Canadian federal government to fund modernisations at an important shipping port in northern Quebec. A project to improve the Port of Sept-Îles will do ahead with a Canadian dollar CAD55 million public investment, matching similar investments from the port authority in a CAD220million expansion project.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN, IN EDMONTON

CANADA’S diamond industry is blossoming into a world leader as the third largest producer of rough diamonds, after Botswana and Russia. But ready profits from valuable natural resources can encourage crime, specifically money laundering. Leah Germain investigates the country’s current legislation and precautions taken by the industry to prevent the laundering of assets through the purchase of diamonds.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

AFTER five years of work – not to mention delays and complications – the New Quito International Airport is finally poised for completion this coming October, and is set to pave the way for significant increases in trade and tourism in Ecuador’s capital city.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) is establishing a disputes panel to rule on whether feed-in tariff systems can limit their subsidies to electricity produced by locally-made technology – or whether such conditions break global commerce rules. That is the view of the European Union (EU), which has brought this case against Canada.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS, IN OTTAWA

DESPITE the growing popularity of e-books sales worldwide, Canadian physical book sales held up this Christmas. "Over the holiday season, the Canadian print book market saw a very slight decrease in sales," said Samantha Francis, spokeswoman for not-for-profit agency BookNet Canada, which tracks the sales of 75% of print books in Canada.…