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BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

GLOBAL warming is drying up ponds in the Canadian high Arctic, seasonal homes to aquatic wildlife for millennia.

Scientists Dr John Smol from Queen’s University, Ontario, and Dr Marianne Douglas, from the University of Alberta have monitored summer water levels of 40 ponds on Cape Herschel, east-central Ellesmere Island since 1983.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

‘HARRY Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ smashed sales records in Canada. Vancouver-based Raincoast Books, the Harry Potter’s Canadian distributor and publisher reported 812,000 copies of the book were sold across Canada in the first 48-hour sale period, 25% up from the previous Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

CANADIAN bookseller, Indigo Books and Music Inc., has for the first time, outdone Canadian online sales over Amazon.ca, the global book giant’s Canada arm, according to an industry analyst.
Despite Amazon’s securing 25% more Canadian online traffic in the past months, Indigo’s conversion rate or the rate of how many browsers turn to sellers is substantially higher than Amazon’s.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

‘HARRY Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ smashed sales records in Canada. Vancouver-based Raincoast Books, the Harry Potter’s Canadian distributor and publisher reported 812,000 copies of the book were sold across Canada in the first 48-hour sale period, 25% up from the previous Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A CANADIAN Supreme Court ruling has given Canadian tobacco companies the right to advertise their brands in publications and establishments that are mainly for adults. The decision still prohibits using billboards, event sponsorship and adverts that target young people or link it with a daring lifestyle such as the use of Marlboro man images.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CANADIAN government has added to the growing pressure on the USA to slash the subsidies it pumps into its food sector, formally requesting that a World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel declares that Washington’s largesse has been illegally high.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CANADIAN government has added to the growing pressure on the USA to slash the subsidies it pumps into its food sector, formally requesting that a World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel declares that Washington’s largesse has been illegally high.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa
CANADA’S largest dairy processor Saputo Inc has announced it will close two plants and cuts 144 jobs to consolidate its Canadian manufacturing operations. A Vancouver cheese plant will close March 31, while a cutting and wrapping plant near Montreal will shut down on June 2.…

BY MARK ROWE
EASTERN Europe, thanks mainly to the preponderance of Soviet-era facilities and Soviet-era standards of maintenance, has long been seen as a potential weak link for the nuclear power industry in safety terms. A vast group of international experts devotes time and resources to maintaining the industry’s record and the nuclear power industry has various arrangements for cooperation among utilities and internationally, among government and United Nations nuclear agencies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend between Euro 200 and 230 million to Canadian dominated Ambatovy Minerals SA and Dynatec Madagascar SA to develop and operate a new large-scale open pit lateritic nickel ore mine in Madagascar.…