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BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Cairo

THE EGYPTIAN government has passed new compulsory standards for its country’s booming private university sector, because teaching quality at the eight independent universities established in Egypt in the past decade has sometimes been poor.

With so many new institutions chasing a quick buck, teaching and facilities has been unreliable, Professor Farag Elkamel, Dean of Mass Communications at the Al-Ahram Canadian University (ACU) told the Times Higher Education Supplement.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

DUTCH coatings giant Akzo Nobel NV has taken over Canadian paintmaker Sico Inc. for approximately CDN$284 million.

Akzo based in Arnhem, the Netherlands, will acquire all of Sico’s outstanding common shares at a cash price of CDN$20 per share and will also offer to buy Sico’s class B preferred shares for CDN$3.8 million in total.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

CANADIAN scientists have confirmed a hybrid bear born of a grizzly bear and a polar bear was recently killed by a sports-hunter in Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT). The bear was a creamy polar bear colour but also had long claws, a humped back, shallow face and brown patches around its eyes and nose: grizzly traits.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

THE CANADIAN government has approved the use of advanced American technology to detect harmful noroviruses within the country’s prolific oyster beds. This ‘reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction’ method effectively separates norovirus genetic materials from within oyster tissues. Canada’s health ministry has recently published its details within its Compendium of Analytical Methods reference guide for scientists.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PRESIDENT of Canadian auto manufacturer supplies giant Magna International has welcomed the European Commission’s approval of its purchase of German roof system manufacturer CTS Fahrzeug-Dachsysteme GmbH (CTS) from sports car maker Porsche. Brussels has imposed no conditions on the deal, which it concluded would not harm competition in the European Union (EU).…

BY MONICA DOBIE

AN OPPOSITION leader in the Canadian province of Québec has called in the Drinks Bulletin for a special public inquiry into a financial scandal involving the local alcohol monopoly retailer, the Société des Alcools du Québec (SAQ). The provincial government-owned monopoly has admitted that two ex-vice-presidents were involved in a price-fixing and kickback scheme, although they did not profit personally.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

COD stocks in the North Sea may recover slower than anticipated given new evidence in Atlantic Canada whereby despite moratoriums and imposed limits on cod catches, over-fishing in the 1980’s have caused a significantly increased natural mortality rate in the species.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

THE LATEST available figures, released yesterday (15-2) by Statistics Canada, have indicated that Canada’s trade surplus in beer with the United States has expanded significantly in recent years. In 2003, Canada’s trade surplus in beer with the United States stood at CDN$265 million (US$228 million), CDN$43 million higher than in 1999.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

THE CANADIAN province of Québec’s opposition political parties have called for a public enquiry into a recent price-fixing scandal whereby two ex-VP’s from alcohol monopoly, the Société des Alcools du Québec (SAQ) admitted being involved in kick-back scheme with French wine producers.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CANADIAN researchers have suggested a novel way of preventing a feared switch off of the Gulf Stream that warms Europe and Britain, preventing us from being plunged into Siberia-style winters. The concern is linked to global warming and its potential melting of the North Pole ice cap.…