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BY LEAH GERMAIN, IN EDMONTON

CANADA’S Lomiko Metals Inc. has launched the latest campaign to explore southwestern Quebec’s rich natural graphite reserves with its January 5th acquisition of the Quatre Milles graphite property.

Vancouver-based Lomiko purchased the property, located 175 km northwest of Quebec’s capital, Montreal, from fellow Canadian miners Zimtu Capital Corp.…

BY KACI RACELMA, IN TIZI OUZOU, ALGERIA

ALGERIA: Ongoing reforms transform the north African country’s research and education landscape

Kaci Racelma

Significant education reforms are on the horizon for Algeria’s higher education sector, with the latest push being the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers’ approval of a scientific and technological agreement with this north African country.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WHILE the thought of bundling up in big knit sweater to brave the cold is how knitwear is usually marketed around the world, over in Canada – where winters are trite with snowstorms, and temperatures drop well below zero degrees Celsius – wearing a wool jumper in a blizzard to clean 10 centimetres of snow and ice off your car is not exactly practical.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

A KEY cosmetics ingredient has secured a clean bill of health in Canada despite a 14-month review over environmental health concerns. The country’s environment ministry concluded that Siloxane D5, which helps blends and formulate cosmetics, is safe and its use should be unrestricted.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed its long-awaited package of measures designed to prevent major oil or gas rig accidents that could pollute European Union (EU) waters. They have been collated into a proposed regulation, which would have to be followed to the letter by member states, if the proposal is approved by MEPs and EU ministers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) has ruled American beef and pork product origin labelling rules are so tight they breach a global trade agreement. A WTO disputes panel has backed a Canadian complaint about US rules insisting pork or beef products sold in America must be born, raised and slaughtered in the United States to carry a ‘made-in-the-USA’ label.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

THE DIRECTOR for the United Steelworkers Union (USU) in Ontario and Atlantic Canada has welcomed the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada to reject a constitutional appeal by US Steel against the Canadian government in a row about a steel plant takeover.…

BY LEAH GERMAN

DESPITE this week being awarded the mining rights for a major iron ore deposit in Afghanistan, Canadian company Kilo Goldmines Ltd has announced that it will step down as leaders on this project but retain a 20% interest in the venture.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

The Québec provincial government has decided to grant yet another funding

extension to the consortium of investors trying to breathe life back into one

Canada’s last remaining asbestos mines.

Guy Versailles, spokesman for the Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos, Québec, said that he

is "confident" that the financing needed to go ahead with the planned

underground expansion of the mine will be in place by 1 October.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

The recent 100% acquisition of UK voice and data communications company Airwave Solutions by Australian-based banking group Macquarie Group is the latest example of an investment company taking over a telco, writes MJ Deschamps. The Australian group’s Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund II (MEIF II) already owned just over 50% of Airwave, and is now buying all the stock.…