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BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN publishers are licking their wounds after a summer ill spent with paperwork, lawyers fees and frustration because of the crash of Jack Stoddart’s General Publishing Co. Ltd. and its book distribution arm, General Distribution Services Ltd. (GDS), which filed for voluntary bankruptcy last month at an Ontario court.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
MICHAEL Grimaldi, president of General Motors Canada, has warned that the country’s automobile manufacture sector will continue to lose business to the United States unless more money is pumped into making Canada looking more attractive to new auto makers.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
SMALL-SHOP owners in Saskatchewan will be bound by the province’s Tobacco Control Act, which prohibits the display of cigarettes in retail outlets where they can be seen by under-18’s, after the collapse of a court challenge by a tobacco firm that argued the law is unconstitutional in Canada.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ROTHMANS, Benson and Hedges Inc. Canada, has lost a court battle in Saskatchewan, where the firm had argued the Canadian province’s Tobacco Control Act contravened the right to freedom of expression enshrined in Canada’s Constitution and that it violated federal anti-smoking legislation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
TEENAGE girls who perceive themselves as being overweight are more likely to take up smoking than girls who are comfortable with their self-image, according to a study in the Canadian Journal of Public Health.

Researchers found that girls who used weight control behaviour, such as exercising to lose weight, skipping meals, vomiting or taking diet pills were 50 per cent more likely to smoke compared to girls who thought themselves too thin or average.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
NORTH America’s only single malt whisky producer, the Glenora Distillery, in Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island is using its “first and only” status to sell Glen Breton Rare Canadian whisky at high prices.

The distillery which maintains authentic Scottish traditions by using imported Scotch barley, and Scottish-made copper casks, released 1,000 cases of its first release of whisky in 2000 retailing for CAN$75.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
NEW BRUNSWICK-based Moosehead Breweries have had to revise a marketing campaign for their Alpine beer brand that features bikini-clad buxom ladies, because the Canadian province’s liquor monopoly labelled it inappropriate. Barbara Winsor, (HONEST – NO RELATION) head of the New Brunswick Liquor Corporation, told the Moncton Times: “Their big boobies are hanging out,” and banned pamphlets from being distributed in provincial alcohol stores; 100,000 will now be pulped.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
CANADIAN auto manufacturers have reported record sales numbers for last month, with most companies claiming it had been their best August ever.

A total of 148, 412 vehicles were purchased last month, surpassing the previous record of 138,000 set in August 2000.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
INDIGO Books & Music Inc. and the Canadian Booksellers Association have gone to the Federal Court of Canada to annul last month’s federal government decision to let Amazon.ca operate in Canada, despite regulations requiring a bookseller to be majority Canadian owned.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, and ALAN OSBORN, in London
CANADIAN publishers may have to pay the insolvent General Publishing up front to have their books moved from its warehouse floor, even though many publishers have not received payment from General since last autumn.…