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BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada
FREDERICTON airport in New Brunswick, Canada has announced that it will undergo a CAN$2 million expansion and renovation project.

The 6,000 feet runway will be enlarged to 8,000 feet, enabling it to become an international airport, with larger passenger planes use the facility from the United States.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S tobacco industry is risking a political struggle by missing a deadline, set by the federal government, to remove terms such as “light” and “mild” from cigarette packets, claiming that more time is needed to properly inform consumers on a new system that would replace the traditional descriptions.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada
DING Dong! Avon calling!

Traditionally, this familiar greeting of the faithful cosmetic lady would have women riffling through their mini catalogues and choosing cherry red lipstick and skin firming creams but all that is about to change.…

BY KATE REW
AN ESTIMATED 700,000 farmed salmon in Maine have been killed since March this year in a bid to control the spread of a deadly fish virus, infectious salmon anaemia (ISA). It is the first time that the disease has been discovered in US salmon farms although it has already affected both the European and Canadian fisheries.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN book sector has seen its share of turbulence in the past 12 months. Last summer Larry Stevenson, a young, successful businessman at the helm of Chapters, the country’s largest book retailer, was pondering ways in which to expand the company further.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
DING Dong! Avon calling!

Traditionally, this familiar greeting of the faithful cosmetic lady would have women riffling through their mini-catalogues and choosing cherry red lipstick, ultra-voluminising mascara and skin firming creams but all that is about to change.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A NEW beer brand has been launched by the Ball Brewing Company, an independent brewer, based in Toronto; its flagship is called Ball Premium Light, the only stand-alone light beer in the country, it claims, competing with Canada’s leading brewers Labatt and Molson that sell the more traditional light beers, derived from full strength beers already on sale.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINLAND is the world’s most technologically advanced country, according to a United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP), report, which puts the UK at number seven in its league table, also behind the USA, Sweden, Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
November 28, 2000:

*Trilogy Retail Enterprises, a private company run by Gerry Schwartz and his wife Heather Reisman, announced that it would make an offer to Chapters Inc. shareholders to purchase 4,888,000 common shares of the company at a cash price of $CAN 13 per share.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada
COCA-COLA Ltd. is trying to tap into the fashionable and potentially lucrative Canadian coffee market by launching its Planet Java drink in the country, aiming it at 18 to 36 year olds.

It is similar to a mochaccino and contains milk, sugar and coffee; it is being marketed as a low fat drink, with 180 calories and 3 grams of fat per serving.…