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BY MONICA DOBIE
CHOCOLATE sales have been buoyed in Canada following the attacks in the United States says John Rowsome, President of the Confectionery Manufacturers of Canada. Speaking to the Toronto Globe and Mail he said that a recent boom could not just be explained by the traditional increase in north American demand during the Halloween period.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT was telling that the first step taken by President Bush against Islamic terror groups following the World Trade Centre disaster was to freeze bank accounts. The international community has now responded by agreeing common controls to stop terror groups laundering funds.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ROTHMANS Inc., (Canada), has reported increased year-on-year profits of 34.6 per cent to CAN$24.1 million or CAN$0.73 per share for the second quarter which ended on September 30, compared with $17.9 million or 54 cents per share in the same period last year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
LABATT Breweries, of Canada, based in Toronto, has publicly blasted its main advertising agency, Ammirati Puris, telling it to shape up or another team will gain their business.

In an unusually open attack on a contracted business partner, vice-president of marketing for Labatt, Charles Oliver said that his company expected better value for their money from the ad company.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CHAPTERS Online Inc., Canada’s leading online book retailer, that was once the Internet arm of the Chapters chain of bookstores in the country, has been officially bought out by shareholders of Indigo Books & Music Inc., the same company that swallowed up its former parent earlier this year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILERAL Investment Guarantee Agency, (MIGA), of the World Bank has dismissed claims that the Barrick Gold Corporation, of Canada, and the Tanzanian government were implicated in the alleged deaths of miners during an official operation to fill unsafe mine shafts in 1996.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEALTH experts have been discussing a report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, (OECD), which has shown Britain performs poorly against its competitors in western Europe and north America, regarding the number of nurses employed per head of population in the late 1990’s.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
HEATHER Reisman, CEO of Canada’s Indigo Books and Music Inc., has banned copies of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf from bookshelves in the merged chain’s 200 plus Indigo and Chapters outlets. “We consider it hate literature. With freedom of expression, the line is drawn on hate literature.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANZ Fischler has been making a lot of speeches recently. It is not because he has time on his hands, he is in charge of the European Commission’s largest two budgets, agriculture and fisheries after all. Rather it is because he is cross with the Americans, whom he accuses of playing Janus at the WTO.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHOCOLATE sales have been buoyed in north America following the terror attacks in the United States and the deepening recession says John Rowsome, President of the Confectionery Manufacturers of Canada. Speaking to the Toronto Globe and Mail he said: “Candy sales are exceedingly buoyant.…