12 August 2003 23:25
Canada NewsWire summary of releases for Afternoon, Wednesday August 13th 2003
TORONTO, Aug. 13 /CNW/ - General# C0011 - WINNIPEG : Two Best Buy Stores Officially Grand Open this Friday at 10am
(Best-Buy-open-Winnipg) C0022 - SAINT-HUBERT : Canadian Space Agency - Canada's SCISAT satellite successfully
launched (e-CanaSpacAgen-launch) C0028 - SAINT-HUBERT, Quebec : /R E P E A T/ - Media Advisory - Canadian Space Agency
Hosts Annual Space Educators' Conference (a-CSA-invitation) C0030 - SAINT-HUBERT, Quebec : /R E P E A T/ - Canadian
Space Agency - Media Advisory - Launch of SCISAT Canadian Satellite (a-ASC-Media-Advisory) C0053 - OTTAWA : The Daily -
Statistics Canada (The-Daily-Statistics) C0066 - RENFREW, ON : Renfrew County Educator honoured by Elementary
Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO-Support-Award) C0072 - OTTAWA : Home Starts Expected to be Second Strongest
in 14 Years, Renovation Spending to Hit New Records (renovation-spending) C0073 - KITCHENER, ON : Ernie, tell the truth:
your reckless platform means fewer police (Liberal-re:Ernie-Eves) C0079 - TORONTO : The Scarborough Hospital KIDSHARE
Workshop Helps Families Cope With Cancer (KIDSHARE-Workshop) C0080 - OTTAWA : New federal regulations to reduce the use
and release of toxic substances into the environment (toxic-substances) C0081 - BELLEVILLE, ON : Eves government moves
forward with traffic signals on Highway 37 to improve road safety in Belleville (Hwy-37-traffic- signal) C0087 - OTTAWA
: Minister Sheila Copps Announces Funding for the Valiants Monument (Funding-for-Valiants) C0091 - OTTAWA : Minister
Boudria announces appointment of two Assistant Privacy Commissioners (appointments-Privacy) C0092 - TORONTO : Media
Advisory/Photo Opportunity - Radioshack's product exhibition showcases products never seen in store
(Radioshack-products) C0095 - OTTAWA : Centre for Research and Information on Canada - Canadians Favour Increased Power
for Local Government - Federal Level of Government is Least Favoured in Canada, the US and Mexico (e-CUC-Increased-
power) C0101 - TORONTO : Final Two Amateur DJs Selected For Found(at)thirst (Final-2-DJs-selected) C0103 - TORONTO :
Media advisory/photo opportunity - Eves government launches Chinese version of online guide for seniors
(online-guide-seniors) C0105 - THUNDER BAY, ON : Major Cocaine trafficking ring dismantled (RCMP- Cocaine-traffic) C0107
- OTTAWA : Government of Canada Announces $1 Billion Toward Implementation of the Climate Change Plan for Canada
(climate-change-plan) C0120 - OTTAWA : Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP Releases Final Report of a
Public Interest Investigation - Alleged Pursuit and Collision in Surrey, British Columbia (Public-Interest-Inves) C0121
- OTTAWA : Minister Copps announces dedication of a Monument to Canadians who lost their lives in Korea
(monument-Cdns-Korea) C0122 - GUELPH, ON : OCPA Encouraged by $1 Billion Investment In Climate Change Plan
(CornProducrs-response) C0126 - PENETANGUISHENE, ON : Investment in water infrastructure benefits Penetanguishene
($$-Penetanguishene) C0127 - CARAQUET : Government of Canada Announces Funding for the Festival des arts visuels en
Atlantique (Funding-Festival-arts) C0128 - LONGUEUIL : The Jean Coutu Group Purchases Stores in Ontario (a-
JeanCoutu-Pharmasav) C0133 - MIRAMICHI : Thibault Announces Federal Investment of $410,000 for Improvements at Fishing
Harbours in New Brunswick (federal-investment) C0134 - TORONTO : Media Advisory - Canadian Heritage (Cdn-Heritage-
advisory) C0140 - EDMONTON, AB : Government of Canada funds youth employment project at the Northern Alberta Institute
of Technology (youth-employment-AB) C0152 - MONTREAL : Reporters Without Borders - RUSSIA - Appeal court confirms
refusal to give passport to formerly imprisoned journalist (a- RepWithtBor-Russia) C0153 - TORONTO : TTC asks Ministry
of Labour to treat CNE like Rolling Stones concert/Caribana (TTC-CNE-exemption) C0155 - OTTAWA : MEDIA ADVISORY -
Canadian Heritage (See-U-in-Athens- Open) C0156 - TORONTO : Media Advisory & Photo Op - Daredevil stunts, a
different beat, and a silver statue kick-off BuskerFest 2003 with a sneak peak at what's hot at this year's
festival (BuskerFest-sneak-peak) C0161 - OTTAWA : MEDIA ADVISORY - Minister Jane Stewart will be in Granby tomorrow to
speak before the members of the Granby-Bromont Board of Trade. She will also be in Stanstead to announce funding for the
Anglophone minority community of Quebec (Stewart-in-Granby) C0171 - TORONTO : Media Advisory - Habitat for Humanity
Launches Largest Framing Blitz (Habitat-for-Humanity) C0173 - KITCHENER, ON : Eves to crack down on criminals and keep
Ontario safe (Eves-crackdown-crime) C0174 - QUINTE WEST, ON : Eves government delivers $26,667 investment for Quinte
West transit (Quinte-West-transit-$) C0177 - TORONTO : Ernie Eves: Tough On Crime. Dalton McGuinty? Missing In Action.
(ernie-v.-dalton) C0188 - TORONTO : Torontonians to enjoy more beautiful, more accessible water's edge:
Harbourfront Centre revitalization plans announced (Harbourfront- plans) C0190 - TORONTO : Toronto sports personalities
thank healthcare workers (Toronto-sports-person) C0192 - COBOURG, ON : The Ernie Eves government is investing more than
$4 million to improve transportation infrastructure to benefit Cobourg area commuters (ONT-inv-Cobourg) C0193 -
RICHMOND, BC : YVR security rolls-out first Segway(TM) at a Canadian airport (Segway-YVR-airport) C0195 - TORONTO :
Researchers identify a new molecular player in chronic pain (pain-molecule-found) C0198 - TORONTO : B-roll Advisory -
Pepsi Vanilla(TM) - arrives in Canada (Pepsi-Vanilla-Canada) C0199 - HAWKESBURY, ON : Government of Canada invests
$1,485,000 to help develop Francophone communities in Ontario (Government-invest) C0202 - OTTAWA : Transport Minister
announces regulations to permit the availability in Canada of three-wheeled vehicles and enclosed motorcycles
(three-wheeled-vehicle) C0206 - SLEMON PARK, PE : Honeywell Expands Operations in Slemon Park (Honeywell-Expands-Ope)
C0216 - GRANBY, QC : Government of Canada funds project to help 80 youth enter the labour market (youth-labour-market)
C0218 - TORONTO : Ernie Eves incapable of telling the truth about his real record on crime (Liberals-re:Eves) C0220 -
WASHINGTON : U.S. Consumers Welcome Another NAFTA Ruling: Countervail Duties Imposed on Canadian Softwood Lumber Were
Illegal (DC-ACAH- NAFTA-lumber) C0222 - OTTAWA, ON : Minister Bradshaw announces appointment to the Council of Governors
of the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (appointment-CCOHS) C0228 - OTTAWA : NAFTA ruling shows need
to restart negotiations (NAFTA- Ruling-Restart) C0242 - SARNIA, ON : Eves Government to expand services for victims of
crime (Eves-$-victims-crime) C0243 - TORONTO : Ernie, Call the Election. It's Time for a Change in Ontario
(Eves-wavers-on-electn) C0245 - TORONTO : Toronto hosting largest municipal conference in Ontario (municipal-conference)
C0247 - GUELPH, ON : Government of Canada supports the development of innovative camouflage products
(camouflage-products) C0250 - TORONTO : Media Advisory - Canadian Heritage (Can.-Heritage- event) C0259 - VANCOUVER :
NAFTA supports Canada in softwood lumber dispute (NAFTA-supports-Canada) C0265 - TORONTO : Niagara Teacher re-elected to
Executive of the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO-elect-Executive) C0267 - PORT PERRY, ON : Eves
government invests $6.3 million in Highway 7A improvements in the Port Perry area (Eves-Hwy-7A-investmnt) C0270 -
TORONTO : Algoma teacher re-elected to Executive of the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario
(Algoma-Teacher-ETFO) C0273 - ST. JOHN'S, NL : Governments of Canada and Newfoundland and Labrador announce new
Older Workers Pilot Projects Initiative agreement (Older- Workers-Pilot) C0274 - ST. JOHN'S, NL : Governments of
Canada and Newfoundland and Labrador announce new Older Workers Pilot Projects Initiative agreement (Older-
Workers-Pilot) C0278 - TORONTO : Toronto teacher elected to executive of the Elementary Teachers' Federation of
Ontario (ETFO-teacher-elected) C0286 - OAKVILLE, ON : Government of Canada Supports Development of Advanced Prototyping
and Engineering Services for the Aerospace Industry (Advanced-Prototyping) C0287 - TORONTO : Durham teacher re-elected
to Executive of the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (Durham-teacher-reelec) C9788 - TORONTO, Aug. 13 :
Media Advisory - GO's hosting KidSummer tomorrow, August 14 (GO-KidSummer-Aug-14) C9796 - OTTAWA : MEDIA ADVISORY -
The Government of Canada supports the vitality of the French-speaking community of Ontario (Support-French-Commun) C9854
- TORONTO : Media Advisory - Charmin Ultra 'Potty Palooza' rolls into the CNE (Charmin-CNE-celebrate) C9883 -
TORONTO : Media Alert: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 10th World Congress on Lung Cancer -- Vancouver, Canada
(Cancer-World-Congress) C9894 - OTTAWA : MEDIA ADVISORY - Minister Jane Stewart will be in Granby today to announce a
Youth Employment Strategy project and an Older Workers project (Older-Workers-Project) C9904 - QUINTE WEST, ON : Media
Advisory - Ontario Ministry of Transportation (Ont-$$-Quinte-West) C9930 - PORT PERRY, ON : Media Advisory - Ontario
Ministry of Transportation (Highway-7A-improvment) C9938 - COBOURG, ON : Media advisory - Ministry of Transportation
(Media- Advisory-Transp) C9955 - VANCOUVER : TELUS gives $2.2 million to create a friendly future for Hockey Canada
athletes (TELUS-Gives-to-Hockey) C9975 - TORONTO : MasterCard's $500,000 donation to the See You in Athens Fund
priceless to Canadian athletes (MC-donate-to-athletes) C9994 - BELLEVILLE, ON : Media Advisory - Ontario Ministry of
Transportation (Min-Klees-announcemnt) C9996 - TORONTO and ROCHESTER, NY : Toronto-Rochester Fast Ferry Project a
'Go' (T.O.-Rochester-Ferry) Business/Financial# C0009 - CAMBRIDGE, ON : ATS reports improving performance, new
automation systems bookings at $73 million to date in Q2 (ATS-Q1-2003-Results) C0010 - VANCOUVER : Triant to be named
one of Canada's fastest growing technology companies in 2003 Deloitte & Touche Canadian Technology Fast 50
(Triant-D&T-Fast-50) C0012 - VANCOUVER : Citotech Systems Inc. signs letter of intent with Abbotly Technologies Inc.
(Citotech-Abbotly) C0017 - MARKHAM, ON : PLM Group reports substantial gains in sales and operating earnings for the
second quarter of 2003 (PLM-Group-Q2-results) C0032 - MONTREAL : NHC Communications Wins Second Deployment with Orders
of $1.4 million from its First Major US ILEC Customer (e-NHC-Comm-cont-order) C0037 - EDMONTON : Resin and the Alberta
Research Council continue to enhance commercialization of Resin technology (Resin-AB-Research-Cou) C0043 - MONTREAL :
Desjardins Trust - Net earnings of $2.1 million for the second quarter of 2003 (e-Fiduc-Desjardins-Q2) C0048 - TORONTO :
Natural gas leads decline in commodity prices in July say TD economists (TD-commod-July-prices) C0051 - BURLINGTON,
Mass. & GLEN ELLYN, Ill. : Kinsey & Kinsey Teams with Cognos to Deliver Cognos Enterprise Planning Series to
Customers (MA-Kinsey- COGN-Team) C0052 - BURLINGTON, Mass. & TORONTO, Ontario : BPM Enterprise Solutions Teams with
Cognos to Deliver Cognos Enterprise Planning Series to Customers (MA-Cognos-BPM-Team) C0057 - TORONTO : Magellan
Aerospace-Built SCISAT Satellite Launched (Magellan-SCISAT-Satel) C0058 - MENLO PARK, Calif. : E TRADE Group, Inc.
Reports Monthly Activity for July 2003 (CA-E-TRADE-monthly) C0059 - BURLINGTON, N.C. : New PreGen-Plus(TM) Colon Cancer
Assay Offered by LabCorp(R) Beginning Today (NC-LabCorp-New-Prod) C0060 - KAMLOOPS, BC : DaimlerChrysler Canada and
Chrysler Financial Canada donate $125,000 to forest fire relief (DaimlerChrysler-donat) C0061 - BASKING RIDGE, N.J. :
Avaya Gains IP Telephony Leadership Positions in U.S. and Worldwide Markets (NJ-Avaya-Telephony) C0062 - PLANO, Texas :
EDS Signs $100 Million in Contracts; Expands Leadership in $2.7 Billion Web Hosting Market (TX-EDS-contracts) C0076 -
MONTREAL : Shermag Inc. - Invitation (a-Shermag-Gen-Meeting) C0082 - TORONTO : Imperial Oil Limited - Third Quarter 2003
Dividend Declaration (Imperial-Oil-Q3-Divid) C0089 - MONTREAL : Dynacor Mines, Tumipampa Project: Acquisition of a 2nd
Adjoining Property to its Tumipampa Properties in Peru (a-Dynacor-acquisition) C0093 - WESTWOOD, Mass. : North American
Life Insurance Activity Off 1.9% in July (MA-MIB-reports) C0097 - TORONTO : Clarke Earnings Up 8.0% In First Quarter
(Clarke-Q1- results) C0116 - VANCOUVER : DiamondWorks Launches New Web Site (DiamondWorks-web- site) C0118 - CALGARY :
Sterling Resources Ltd. - Avington Well Tests Oil (Sterling-well-tests) C0141 - OTTAWA, Canada : Mitel Networks Delivers
Europe's Largest IP Communications Implementation (Largest-IP-Communicat) C0147 - TORONTO : Suite101.com, Inc.
Announces Indian Government Consent Obtained For GeoGlobal Acquisition Completion (Suite101-GeoGlobal) C0150 - LONDON,
ON : Trojan Technologies Inc. Notice of Earnings Conference Call and Webcast (Trojan-webcast-notice) C0154 - TORONTO :
Nuinsco board appoints Warren Holmes as CEO (Nuinsco- appoints-CEO) C0157 - MARKHAM, ON : PLM purchases a new state of
the art Heidelberg 7 unit sheet fed press (PLM-buys-new-press) C0164 - CALGARY : Advantage Announces 2nd Quarter
Conference Call & Web Cast on August 18, 2003 (Advantage-confcal-wbc) C0165 - TORONTO : ResREIT announces strong
revenue growth and higher occupancies in second quarter (ResREIT-Q2-results) C0170 - EDMONTON : Floron Food Services
Approves Going Private Transaction (FloronFood-Priv.Trans) C0179 - TORONTO : OSC - Re: Commercial Consolidators Corp.
(OSC-cease- trade) C0210 - SMITHFIELD, Va. : Smithfield Foods to Acquire Cumberland Gap (VA- Smthfld-Aq-Cmbrlnd) C0213 -
TORONTO : TD Canada Trust changes residential mortgage rates (TD- Canada-Trust-rates) C0214 - CALGARY : Axia
CitizenConnect wins Learning and Skills Council Contract (Axia-Wins-Contract) C0215 - FORT WORTH, Texas : Quicksilver
Resources Announces Second Quarter 2003 Results (TX-Quicksilver-earns) C0217 - TORONTO : Inco updates status of review
of Goro project (Inco- Goro-project) C0229 - VANCOUVER : The Keg Royalties Income Fund announces August 2003 cash
distribution (The-Keg-August-distri) C0235 - TORONTO : Access to Royal Bank of Canada's third quarter conference
call (RBC-conference-call) C0236 - TORONTO : Genevest Inc. reports results for the three and six months ended June 30,
2003 (Genevest-results) C0260 - TORONTO : Media advisory - Blaster Worm is Still a Ticking Time- Bomb
(Blaster-Worm-update) C0271 - BURNABY, BC : Gateway Casinos Income Fund announces July 2003 distribution
(GCI.UN-July-distrbtn) C0280 - VANCOUVER : Terasen Utility Services gains rights to new technology for ensuring drinking
water quality (Terasen-new-technolgy) C0281 - DENVER : Teton Petroleum Company Retains MRB Investor Relations LLC
(CO-Teton-Petro-MRB-IR) C8581 - TORONTO : O&Y Real Estate Investment Trust Announces Strong Second Quarter Results
with Distributable Income Up 9.4% (O&Y-REIT-Q2-results) C9459 - TORONTO : Xenos Group Inc. - Third Quarter Results -
August 13, 2003 (Xenos-Q3-Aug-13) C9554 - TORONTO : Menu Foods Income Fund announces second quarter results
(Menu-Foods-Q2-results) C9831 - OTTAWA, Canada : PIKA Technologies announces availability of Linux and Windows software
supported headset/handset voice and fax card (PIKA- announces) C9844 - DARTMOUTH, NS : Newfoundland Capital Corporation
Limited - Second Quarter 2003 (NCC-Q2-results) C9872 - TORONTO : O&Y Real Estate Investment Trust Declares August
Distribution (O&Y-REIT-Aug-distribu) C9915 - TORONTO : INEA Delivers Real-Time Information to Transform Harris Bank
(Harris-Bank-uses-INEA) C9921 - MONCTON, NB : Whitehill Technologies Named One of Canada's 50 Best by Deloitte
& Touche (Whitehill-50-best) C9943 - TORONTO : Xenos Earns $0.01/Share in Third Quarter (Xenos-Q3- earnings) C9947 -
TORONTO : Livingston International Income Fund announces 2nd quarter 2003 results (Livingston-Q2-results) C9950 - OTTAWA
: Accenture Awarded Contract to Help Citizenship and Immigration Canada Develop Global Case Management System
(Accenture-contract) C9954 - CALGARY : Boardwalk Equities Inc. - Second Quarter Results Webcast - August 15, 2003
(Boardwalk-Q2-Webcast) C9983 - EDMONTON : Isotechnika Named One of Canada's Fastest Growing Technology Companies in
2003 Deloitte & Touche Canadian Technology Fast 50 (Isotechnika-Fast-50) C9987 - CALGARY : Drilcorp Energy Announces
30% Production Increase at Jayar (Drilcorp-Production) C9988 - CALGARY : BlackRock Announces 2nd Quarter Financial
Results (BlackRock-Q2-Results) C9989 - TORONTO : Cymat strengthens automotive structural reinforcement capabilities
(Cymat-strudtural-fix) C9990 - MONTREAL : Law firm Fasken Martineau opens in Johannesburg (FaskenMartineau-Afric) C9999
- TORONTO : Today on InvestorCanada.com...New American Rules for Research Analysts (resrch-anlysist-rules) Sports# C0114
- MONTREAL : One year to the Athens Olympic Games - McDonald's Launches the alexandredespatie.ca Website
(a-McDonald's-Website) C0191 - MONTREAL : Invitation - Racing Since 1961...- A Celebration of Player's
Involvement in Canadian Motorsport (a-Players-Racing1961) C9849 - TORONTO : United Way Wins with 3 Man Hoops & The
JYD Project! (UnitedWay-3-Man-Hoops) Entertainment# C0025 - TORONTO : Mikey and Tyler Become The Next Two Finalists
Eliminated From Canadian Idol (Cdn-Idol-Mikey-Tyler) C0086 - TORONTO : Toronto 1 to debut innovative entertainment
variety showcase 'The Toronto Show' (The-Toronto-Show) C0139 - TORONTO : Keatley MacLeod Productions and
Alliance Atlantis announce start of principal photography on seventh season of Cold Squad for CTV
(7th-season-Cold-Squad) C0142 - REDWOOD SHORES, CA : EA Creates New Development Studio in Montreal - East Coast Studio
Will Attract Talent for New Game Franchises (e-EA- creat-new-Studio) Travel# C0049 - MONTREAL : Jetsgo triples RPMs,
ASMs in July traffic (Jetsgo-July- traffic) C0117 - TORONTO : Concorde to make farewell visit to Toronto (Concorde-
farewell-TO)
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