18 December 2002 02:00
Canada NewsWire summary of releases for Wednesday, December 18, 2002
TORONTO, Dec. 18 /CNW/ - General# C4368 - HAMILTON, ON : Acts of bravery and humanitarianism honoured along with
exceptional volunteer service (2002-Minister-Awards) C4388 - TORONTO : Building a new holiday tradition for giving
across Canada (Change-Canada-fund) C4572 - PLEASANTON, CA : Ironside Introduces Order File Connector for Connecting
Manufacturers & Distributors Directly to Customer Purchasing Systems (Ironside-NewConnector) C4715 - TORONTO : CCAIF
releases top ten Canadian insurance frauds of 2002 (CCAIF-insurance-fraud) C4721 - BARRIE, ON : Eves government invests
$800,000 in Highway 400 improvement in Barrie area (Highway-400-investmnt) C4723 - TORONTO : Breakthrough Treatment for
Leading Cause of Death (New- device-treats-AAA) C4738 - OTTAWA : Warning - Allergy Alert - Undeclared sulphites in
Hanif's brand Dry Mango Slice (Alert-Hanif's-brand) C4740 - MONTREAL : Association des Chiropraticiens du
Quebec - 'Last minute holiday shopping made easier' (e-AssocChiropra-hints) C4754 - MONTREAL : The Quebec
Aerospace Association publishes its position paper on the consolidation and development of aerospace suppliers in Quebec
(e-AQA-dev-aerospace) C4763 - TORONTO : Restaurant industry appalled by dairy farmer demands (CRFA-re:-dairy-rally)
C4764 - OTTAWA : Health Spending to Top $112 Billion in 2002, Reports Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
(Health-Spending) C4768 - OTTAWA : The Daily - Statistics Canada (The-Daily) C4772 - OTTAWA : MEDIA ADVISORY - Dairy
Farmers Rally in Ottawa (Dairy- Farmers-Rally) C4777 - TORONTO : Municipal election nominations open January 2, 2003
(electn-nominatn-Jan2) C4785 - TORONTO : Don Cherry and Ron MacLean Helped Announce $3.1 million Raised on CIBC World
Markets Children's Miracle Day (CIBC-WM-$3.1M-raised) C4787 - TORONTO : Test drive and photo opportunity - Toronto
Hydro adds five new ultra-fuel-efficient gasoline-electric hybrid cars to its 'Green Fleet'
(Toronto-Hydro-Fleet) C4791 - MONTREAL : The QLP favours a mixed voting system (E-QLP-Mixed- voting) C4792 - OTTAWA :
Frustrated by the lack of progress 3000 dairy farmers rally at Ministers' offices (dairy-farmers-rally) C4796 -
TORONTO : Media Advisory and Photo Op - Live Peregrine falcon presentation at TD Canada Trust branch in Scarborough
(TD-peregrine-falcons) C4800 - OTTAWA : MEDIA ADVISORY - Canadian Heritage (Aboriginal- languages) C4810 - REGINA, SK :
Farm Credit Canada Supporting Canadian Food Banks During the Holiday Season (canadian-food-banks) C4812 - OTTAWA :
Consumers Sour on Protest by Dairy Farmers (CAC-RE- farmer-protest) C4814 - TILLSONBURG, ON : Fanshawe College receives
funding to help unemployed individuals prepare for and find work (Fanshawe-College) C4822 - TILLSONBURG, ON : Government
of Canada funds two employment assistance projects in Tillsonburg (projects-Tillsonburg) C4826 - BATHURST, NB : The
Government of Canada and the Conseil Alpha Bathurst-Chaleur promote literacy (Conseil-Alpha-Bathurs) C4836 - OTTAWA :
Competition Bureau Investigation in International Price Fixing Conspiracy Leads to $100,000 Fine (Price-Fixing-Conspira)
C4841 - OTTAWA : Quebec gives capital gains exemption to fish harvesters (Qc-gives-capital-gain) C4842 - TORONTO : First
in free-dom, stress-free shopping at First Canadian Place (shop-First-Cdn-Place) C4852 - OTTAWA : NOTICE TO ALL FOOD
EDITORS: Canadian Food Inspection Agency (notice-food-editors) C4855 - TORONTO : Parents applaud swift response to the
Rozanski Report (Parents-applaud-Reprt) C4861 - OTTAWA : NOTICE TO ALL FOOD EDITORS: Canadian Food Inspection Agency
(Turkey-Safety) C4863 - QUEEN'S PARK : Hampton lauds Hamilton MPP's record of service (NDP-Hampton-lauds-MPP)
C4866 - OTTAWA : NAV CANADA Announces Revised Service Charges (cs-charges- increase) C4878 - PEMBROKE : Renfrew County
Housing Corporation Breaks Off Negotiations - Workers Fight Concessions as Strike Looms (Renfrew-County- Housng) C4880 -
OTTAWA : The Privacy Commissioner of Canada, George Radwanski, today sent the following letter to the Hon. Elinor
Caplan, Minister of National Revenue, with a copy to the Prime Minister, regarding Minister Caplan's attack on the
Commissioner's position on CCRA's 'Big Brother' database of Canadians' foreign travel patterns
(Big-Brother-database) C4883 - MONTREAL : OFFICE HOURS OF THE REGIE DU LOGEMENT DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON
(a-qc-Rlogement-hours) C4897 - GATINEAU : The Government of Canada Announces Funding for the Festival de Musique Sacr
Dee de l'Outaouais (Fest-Musique-Outaouai) C4903 - TORONTO : Media Notice - Minister Clement to hold conference
call (Min-Clement-conf-call) C4910 - OTTAWA : New Brunswick Hog Producers Get NISA Top-Up (Hog- producers-NISA) C4913 -
MONTREAL : IMS Statistics for Alzheimer Awareness Month, January (A-IMS-Stats-Alzheimer) C4915 - OTTAWA : Canada Export
Awards 2003: Ready, Set, Go! (Cda-Export- Award-2003) C4916 - TORONTO : Philip Analytical Services charged with failing
to report adverse water quality samples (PhilipAnalytical-fine) C4923 - CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI : ACOA Provides Support for
Expansion of Family-Owned Franchise (Family-Owned-franchis) C4926 - OTTAWA : Transport Minister Announces Appointment to
Toronto Port Authority (Toronto-Port-Authorit) C4933 - TORONTO : Ontario concerned with lack of specific federal plan to
address health care funding (fed.-health-care-plan) C4934 - HAMILTON : Save Chedoke campaign to petition HHS board of
directors (Save-Chedoke-Campaign) C4941 - OTTAWA : Bush administration fails to hijack a regional UN meeting
(Bush-Fails-to-hijack) C4942 - TORONTO : The Foundation for Active Healthy Kids Announces High- Profile Board of
Directors Following Romanow Report (Foundatn-Healthy-Kids) C4950 - SAINT-HUBERT, Quebec : Canadian Space Agency - New
Pointing RADARSAT-1 Procedures Are Underway (a-CSA-RADARSAT-1-proc) C4958 - TORONTO : New drop-in for homeless replaces
The Open Door (T.O.- homeless-drop-in) C4959 - GATINEAU : The Government of Canada announces funding for the Concerts
Ponticello (Concerts-Ponticello) C4973 - TORONTO : One million Ontarians call Telehealth in first year
(Telehealth-1st-anniv) C4976 - OTTAWA : Transport Minister announces reappointment to Marine Atlantic Inc.
(Marine-Atlantic-Inc) C4982 - MONTREAL : Montreal Island Citizens' Union - DECENTRALIZATION - Pierre Bourque still
trying to find the way, the MICU remains true to itself (e-MICU-decentralizati) C4993 - BARRIE : CUPE Local 255 ratifies
agreement with Township of Wellington North (ratifies-agreement) C4995 - MONTREAL : Via Ready To Welcome Holiday
Travellers - Extra Cars And Trains Added - Some Departures Still Available - Public Advised To Book Quickly
(a-ViaRail-Holidays) C4997 - TORONTO : Sympatico.ca Top 10 Searches for 2002 Reflect Canadians' Curiosity
(Top-10-web-searches) C5003 - TORONTO : OEB encourages consumers to carefully consider offers from energy marketers
(OEB-warns-consumers) C5009 - OTTAWA : Prime Minister Chr Detien to Participate in the Canada - European Union Summit
(PM-to-participate) C5012 - PEEL, ON : Peel Regional Police - Police end commercial Break and Enter spree
(Peel-break-and-enters) C5027 - BRAMPTON, ON : Peel Regional Police - Thirty-six exotic snakes perish in house fire
(Peel-house-fire) C5028 - ST. CATHARINES, ON : Ernie Eves government supports agreement reached between two Niagara
hospitals (Niagara-hosp.-agreemt) C5030 - OTTAWA : Canada Welcomes Signing of Accord in Democratic Republic of the Congo
(signing-of-accord) C5040 - OTTAWA : Do you live in a 'No Sweat' town? (No-Sweat-towns) C5049 - TORONTO :
Media Advisory - Major-General Richard Rohmer, new Honorary Chief of Toronto Emergency Medical Services, will present
Toronto EMS annual awards (Toronto-EMS-awards) C5050 - WASHINGTON : Survey Data Indicate Americans Strongly Oppose
Canadian Seal Hunt (DC-Canadian-Seal-Hunt) C5052 - QUEEN'S PARK : Hydro utilities issue refund cheques
(Hydro-refund- cheques) C5060 - MAPLE RIDGE, BC : BC Carpenter wins big in national contest - Just in time!
(BC-Mazda-winner) C5072 - OTTAWA : Canada Customs and Revenue Agency starts dumping investigation into certain carbon
steel pipe fittings (carbon-steel-pipe) C5074 - OTTAWA : Ontario continues to focus on jobs and opportunity (ON-
budget-consultatns) C5080 - AYLMER, ON : Media Advisory - Runciman to attend sod turning for counter-terrorism training
expansion at Ontario Police College (Runciman-sod- turning) C5086 - TORONTO : TDSB Supervisor Responds to Trustee
Co-Chair Proposal (TDSB-Chair-proposal) C5094 - OTTAWA : Industry Canada Launches Enhanced Aboriginal Business Canada
Program (Enhanced-ABC-Program) C5102 - TORONTO : Media Advisory - Holiday Volume Projections for Toronto Pearson
International Airport (Airport-holiday-volum) C5107 - ST-JEAN-PORT-JOLI, QC : Government of Canada Supporting Community
Diversification in Rural Quebec (Community-Diversifica) C5115 - TORONTO : Province seeks leave to appeal in Ottawa ward
boundaries case (ON-leave-to-appeal) C5117 - MONTREAL, QC : MEDIA ADVISORY - Government of Canada to Announce Investment
Partnership with CAE Inc. (GOC-partnership-w/CAE) C5123 - OTTAWA : Technology Partnerships Canada - GOVERNMENT OF CANADA
TO ANNOUNCE INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP WITH CAE INC - December 19, 2002 (Webcast- notification) C5133 - TORONTO : Pfizer
launches first three-day antibiotic for children's middle ear infections (Pfizer-Canada-B-roll) C5136 - EDMONTON,
AB : Higher education and student mobility for the new economy (Higher-educationb) C5149 - OTTAWA : Message from Her
Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson Governor General of Canada on the death of the Right Honourable Ramon
John Hnatyshyn (Death-of-R-Hnatyshyn) C5160 - TORONTO : CAPC on Road to Developing Automotive Strategy for Canada
(developing-strategy) C5166 - OTTAWA : The Hnatyshyn Foundation (Hnatyshyn-passes-away) C5197 - TORONTO : Ontario
Lottery and Gaming Corporation - Lottery winning numbers (olgc-winning-numbers) C5198 - TORONTO : Holiday Volume
Projections for Toronto Pearson International Airport (Xmas-airport-traffic) C5203 - WINNIPEG : Lotto 6/49, The Plus,
Western 649, Pick 3 and Prairie Keno winning numbers (WCLC-pick-3-keno-649) Business/Financial# C2056 - TORONTO :
Softchoice Recognized as One of the 50 Best Again (Softchoice-50-Best) C4591 - TORONTO : Tri-Vision Signs LG Electronics
of Korea (TriVision- V.Gis-Vchip) C4648 - TORONTO : Kingsway International's Annual Meeting Highlights
(Kingsway-Ann.-Meeting) C4671 - TORONTO : Cymat reports second quarter results (Cymat-Q2-results) C4673 - HALIFAX :
Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies Possess Passion, Innovation, and Motivation (Canada's-best-managed) C4678 -
TORONTO : SAMSys Technologies and Ahearn & Soper Sign VAR Agreement (SAMSys-Ahearn-Soper) C4689 - WINNIPEG :
Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies Possess Passion, Innovation, and Motivation (Canada's-best-managed) C4690 -
OTTAWA : Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies Possess Passion, Innovation, and Motivation (50-Best-Managed-Co-ON)
C4691 - TORONTO and SPRUCE FALLS, ON : Tembec Completes Implementation of Industry-leading Environmental Monitoring
System (Tembec-System-success) C4695 - CALGARY : Taylor Announces Completion of Construction of Joffre Plant
(Taylor-Joffre-Plant) C4698 - TORONTO : KCP Income Fund announces December 2002 distribution (KCP-Dec.-distribution)
C4700 - SASKATOON, SK : Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies Possess Passion, Innovation, and Motivation
(Canada's-best-managed) C4706 - CALGARY : Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies Possess Passion, Innovation, and
Motivation (Canada's-best-managed) C4707 - CALGARY : EnCana appoints Randall Eresman as Senior Executive
Vice-President & COO (EnCana-appoint-VP&COO) C4710 - EDMONTON : Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies Possess
Passion, Innovation, and Motivation (Canada's-best-managed) C4712 - TORONTO : Canada's 50 Best Managed
Companies Possess Passion, Innovation, and Motivation (50-Best-Managed-Co's) C4713 - VANCOUVER : Canada's 50
Best Managed Companies Possess Passion, Innovation, and Motivation (Canada's-best-managed) C4714 - VANCOUVER : VSM
MedTech Receives CE Marking for BpTRU(TM) Vital Signs Monitor Model 300 (VSM-receive-CE-Markin) C4717 - TORONTO : Global
economy reduced, resized, but not yet revitalized, says Scotiabank's Chief Economist (2003-Global-Economy) C4718 -
SINGAPORE : Ivanhoe Mines arranges financing of up to CDN$60 million; agrees to sell stake in Emperor Mines for US$6.5
million (Ivanhoe- financing) C4722 - TORONTO : Today on InvestorCanada.com...How many mutual funds are too many?
(InvestorCanada-funds) C4724 - VANCOUVER : Bema Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire High Grade Gold and Silver Project
in Russia (Bema-acquires-project) C4725 - PALO ALTO, CA : Fox Filmed Entertainment shines the spotlight on Crystal
Decisions (Crystal-Decisions-Fox) C4726 - VANCOUVER : A&W recognized as one of Canada's 50 Best Managed
Companies (A&W-one-of-50-Best) C4727 - CALGARY : Precision Drilling Corporation's fourth quarter earnings
expected to be CDN $0.14 to CDN $0.18 per share (Precision-Drilling) C4747 - MONTREAL : NHC Communications Inc. - Audio
Webcast Notification - December 19, 2002 at 17:00 ET (a-CNWErn-NHC-Webcast) C4749 - MONTREAL : Pharmacor Receives U.S.
Patent for anti-HIV Integrase Inhibitor (a-Pharmacor-USPatent) C4759 - MONTREAL : BCE Outlines 2003 Financial Guidance
(a-BCE-financial- guida) C4761 - SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. : Seagate Disc Drives Play a Starring Role in the Creation of the
Eagerly Anticipated Film: 'The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers' (CA-Seagate-in-Film) C4762 - CANONSBURG,
Pa. : Technomics, LLC Relies on ANSYS to Help Develop and Validate New Quenching Process (PA-ANSYS-Technomics) C4765 -
TORONTO : Canadian Universities Propelled by Research Income Growth - Up 22.5% According to Research Infosource's
Canada's Top Research Universities Report (universities-report) C4767 - TORONTO : Mosaic Group Inc. Obtains Court
Order to Initiate Restructuring (Mosaic-court-order) C4770 - TORONTO : Thistle Mining Inc. raising C$10 million in a
private placement (a-Thistle-placement) C4773 - NEW YORK : Bauer Enters into Collection Agreement with Intensive
Collection Services LLC For $30 Million Debt Portfolio (NY-Bauer-ICS-debt) C4774 - SAN JOSE, Calif. : Calpine Completes
Sale of De Pere Energy Center (CA-Calpine-Sale) C4776 - TORONTO : Atlas Cold Storage announces increased distribution in
fourth quarter (AtlasColdStorage-dist) C4778 - TORONTO : Manulife Investments poll finds four out of five Canadians with
RRSPs expect to invest as much or more for 2002 (Manulife- survey) C4779 - TORONTO : Manulife Investments poll finds
many Canadian investors would spend 'extra' $1,000 to pay down mortgage or other debts (Manulife-poll) C4780 -
HALIFAX : Halterm Income Fund - Distribution (Halterm- distribution) C4781 - QUEBEC CITY : Dr. Eric Dupont, Chairman of
the Board and Chief Executive Officer of AEterna Laboratories Inc. Makes a Personal Donation of CDN $1 Million to Five
Cancer Charities (f-AeternaLabo-EDupont) C4784 - JOHANNESBURG, South Africa : Sage Life USA and Sage Life Bermuda Will
Cease New Business If Capital Not Raised By End of Year (Sage-Group-cease- biz) C4789 - EDMONTON : Sears Canada to Open
a Furniture, Appliances and Home Improvement Store in Edmonton South (Sears-Cda-Edm-store) C4794 - TORONTO : Onlinetel
revenue continues to increase (Eiger- Onlinetel-grows) C4795 - TORONTO : BPI Global Opportunities II Fund announcement
regarding distribution to unitholders (BPI-Global-announcemt) C4797 - MONTREAL : Goodfellow Announces First Quarter
Results (a- Goodfellow-earnings) C4802 - MONTREAL : Telmex Selects SR Telecom to Rebuild Hurricane Ravaged Network - 72
Rural Villages in Nayarit State to Have Phone Service by Christmas (e-SR-Telecom-Telmex) C4806 - TORONTO : Sherritt Coal
Partnership II files details of enhanced offer (Sherritt-Coal-Partner) C4809 - TORONTO : CCL Industries announces
European joint venture (CCL- joint-venture) C4813 - CALGARY : Sale of Hurricane Shares by CAIH Completed (Hurricane-
Shares-CAIH) C4817 - MEMPHIS, TN : FedEx Corp. Reports 10% Revenue Growth in Second Quarter (FedEx-Corp-Q2-results)
C4821 - TORONTO : IDA Q3 Securities Industry Performance Report (IDA-Q3- performance) C4823 - TORONTO : Intercorp
Excelle Foods Inc. Named As One of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies (Intercorp-top-50-awd.) C4830 - TORONTO : AGF
Master Limited Partnership - Estimated Annual Distribution Notice (AGF-AFP.UN-est.-distn) C4831 - TORONTO : Global
Strategy Master LP (Global-Strategy-dist.) C4832 - TORONTO : Multi-Manager Limited Partnership I (AGF-Multi-Manager- I)
C4838 - TORONTO : Polyphalt Inc. - Issue of Common Shares to Independent Directors (Polyphalt-shares) C4840 - CALGARY :
Trinidad Energy Services Income Trust Announces the January 15, 2003 Cash Distribution (Trinidad-distribution) C4846 -
TORONTO : OSC - Re: Second Chance Corporation (OSC-Second-Chance) C4847 - MONTREAL : B2B Vertical Markets purchases
minority shareholders of Net3F (A-Mediagrif-Net3F) C4849 - TORONTO : Falconbridge Limited completes $10,000,000 private
placement (Falconbridge-placemnt) C4857 - VANCOUVER : TeraSpan Networks Deploys Last-mile Fiber Technology in Europe
(TeraSpan-fiber-tech) C4862 - VANCOUVER : Mandate National Mortgage Corporation - Fourth quarter 2002 dividend
(Mandate-Q4-dividend) C4864 - MONTREAL : Bourse de Montr Deal - Information Circular - Disciplinary Decision - Steve
Metaxas (a-BourMTL-Disciplinar) C4867 - WINNIPEG : Boyd Group Announces Income Trust Structure To Enhance Shareholder
Value (Boyd-income-trust) C4869 - TORONTO : Small business outlook for 2003 available tomorrow (small-biz-outlook2003)
C4870 - QUEBEC CITY : The Macyro Group Inc. Announces its Results for Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2003
(A-MacyroGr-Results-Q2) C4873 - TORONTO : Andrea Horan, Top-ranked media(x) sector analyst, joins research team of
Westwind Partners Inc. (Westwind-new-analyst) C4889 - VANCOUVER : Tyhee Development Corp. Summarizes Successful Diamond
Drill Program at Discovery Mine and Nicholas Lake Mine, Yellowknife Gold Project, NWT, Canada (Tyhee-drill-summary)
C4894 - QUEBEC CITY : TSO3 announces the execution of a licensing agreement with Lynntech International
(F-TSO3-Sig-wth-Lyntec) C4900 - RICHMOND, BC : Tree Island Wire Income Fund Announces First Distribution
(Tree-Island-1st-dist) C4906 - CALGARY : Bonterra Energy Income Trust Confirms Cash Distribution Payable January 31,
2003 (Bonterra-distribution) C4912 - CALGARY : CanScot Resources Ltd. Increases the Size of Flow- Through Private
Placement (CanScot-Private-Place) C4921 - TORONTO : BFI Canada Income Fund Announces Its Cash Distribution For The Month
of December, 2002 (BFI-Dec-distribution) C4924 - SAN DIEGO and SANTA CLARA, Calif. : Kyocera Wireless Corp. Chooses
Roxio's PhotoSuite for smartphone (CA-Kyocera-chos-Roxio) C4935 - CAMBRIDGE, ON : COM DEV Profitable In Fourth
Quarter Announces FY2002 Year End Results (COM-DEV-FY02-results) C4939 - VANCOUVER : Diamond Fields is back in diamond
production (DFI- diamond-productn) C4944 - ORLANDO, Fla. : Founder and President of Galaxy Nutritional Foods To
Relinquish Stock Options and Reverse Re-Pricing (Galaxy-Stock-Options) C4946 - ORLANDO, Fla. : Chris New Appointed Chief
Executive Officer of Galaxy Nutritional Foods (FL-Galaxy-Foods-CEO) C4947 - TORONTO : Mutual Fund Investors Smiling
According to Globefund.com Monthly Report (Globefund.com-Report) C4949 - ORLANDO, Fla. : Galaxy Nutritional Foods
Appoints Four New Members to Its Board of Directors (FL-Galaxy-Foods-pers) C4951 - VANCOUVER : Peace Arch Entertainment
enters into acquisition and financing agreement (Peace-Arch-acquisitn) C4952 - WATERLOO, ON : Small and Medium-Sized
Canadian Technology Businesses Can Benefit from North American Integration, says BMO Financial Group CFO
(BMOFG-CFO-statement) C4953 - MONTREAL : Gildan Announces Regulatory Approval of Normal Course Issuer Bid
(a-Gildan-issuer-bid) C4963 - TORONTO : CIBC issues statement concerning appointment of new auditors (CIBC-new-auditors)
C4966 - TORONTO : Clean Power Income Fund Increases Cash Distribution (Clean-Power-distribut) C4974 - WINSTON-SALEM,
N.C. : Efforts to Receive Canadian Tax-Deferred Treatment of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings, Inc. Spin-Off Expected to
be Rejected (NC-RJR-Tax-Treatment) C4975 - THETFORD-MINES, Quebec : Allican Resources Inc. retains Renmark Financial
Communications as its Investor Relations Service Company (a-Allican- Renmark) C4988 - VANCOUVER : EAGC Provides Update
on Business Combination with Bema Gold Corporation (EAGC-Bema-update) C4991 - ARDMORE, Okla. : ITGI Secures Financing
for Oklahoma Hydrocarbon Recovery Plant (OK-ITGI-plant) C5000 - TORONTO : Heating Oil Partners Income Fund Announces
Acquisition of Retail Fuel Distributor (Heating-Oil-Partners) C5007 - MONTREAL : BCE Confirms Discussions With CGI
(a-BCE-confirms-CGI) C5008 - MONTREAL : CGI confirms discussions with BCE (a-CGIGroup-discus- BCE) C5013 - QUEBEC CITY :
Industrial Alliance Renews its Normal Course Issuer Bid (e-IndusAlliance-renew) C5017 - TORONTO : MDS Inc. Concludes
US$311 Million Private Debt Placement (MDS-priv-debt-placmnt) C5019 - TORONTO : Patheon announces fourth quarter and
year end results (Patheon-Q4-earnings) C5022 - CALGARY : Canyon Creek Soup Company (Canyon-Creek-Contract) C5029 -
BURNABY, BC : Gateway Casinos Income Fund announces December 2002 distribution (Gateway-Casino-dist) C5031 - TORONTO :
Chemtrade Logistics Income Fund announces December distribution (Chemtrade-Dec-dist) C5032 - TORONTO : Mackenzie Master
Limited Partnership (Mackenzie- distributn) C5035 - TORONTO : Mackenzie Income Trust (Mackenzie-quarter-dis) C5039 -
TORONTO : Exco awarded protype development tooling for GM X15R (Exco-GM-prototype) C5042 - BURNABY, BC : Swiss Water
Decaffeinated Coffee Income Fund announces November cash distribution (Swiss-Water-Nov-dist) C5043 - VICTORIA, BC : PRT
Announces Fourth Quarter Distribution and Change to Monthly Distributions (PRT-Q4-distribution) C5044 - TORONTO : Bayer
awarded multi-year purchase agreements for biological products and fractionation services (Bayer-awarded-deal) C5045 -
TORONTO : Exco awarded transmission mould contract for Ford 6RXX (Exco-Ford-contract) C5046 - TORONTO : MDS Will Defend
Itself Against Ministry of Environment Charges (MDS-to-defend-itself) C5047 - CALGARY : AltaGas Announces Completion of
Construction of Joffre Ethane Extraction Plant (AltaGas-Joffre-plant) C5062 - TORONTO : Rogers Cable Strengthens Senior
Management Team (Rogers- Sr.-Mgmt.-Team) C5063 - TORONTO : Financial Models Announces Fiscal 2003 Third Quarter Results
(FMC-3Q-results) C5067 - TORONTO : Aurado proposes private placement (Aurado-private- placem) C5075 - CALGARY :
Tallagium Corporation Notice of Dividend on its Class B Non-Voting Common Shares (Tallagium-dividend) C5077 - ALDERSYDE,
AB : Mullen Transportation Inc. Announces Acquisitions (Mullen-Acquisitions) C5079 - ATLANTA : Global Payments Reports
Second Quarter Earnings (GA- Global-Paymnts-ern) C5082 - TORONTO : Today on Canada's Business Report... Why
Coke's Lack of Guidance May Be A Good Thing. (CBR-Coke-end-forecast) C5089 - CAP-SANTE, QUEBEC : Recommendation of
the Board of Directors of R.P.M. Tech Inc. with respect to a take-over bid launched in connection with common shares of
its capital stock (a-RPM-TechInc-bid) C5091 - CALGARY : APF Energy Unitholders Approve Internalization of Management
(APF-approve-managemen) C5096 - TORONTO : Leslie Dan increases his shareholdings in Viventia Biotech Inc.
(Dan-holding-Viventia) C5098 - TORONTO : BCY LifeSciences changes fiscal year-end to December 31, issues options to
directors and announces recruitment has started for its Phase II cystic fibrosis clinical trail (BCY-LifeSciences) C5108
- CALGARY : Shell Canada announces change in Chief Financial Officer (Shell-change-in-CFO) C5110 - YELLOWKNIFE, NWT :
Grandfield Pacific Inc. releases first quarter financial results (GFD-first-quartr-rslt) C5113 - TORONTO : Resolute
Growth Fund moves to First Associates Investments Inc. (Resolute-Fund-moves) C5116 - CALGARY : Champion Bear Announces
Equity Financing (Champion-Bear- equity) C5120 - MONTREAL : Domtar files final prospectus (a-Domtar-Fin-prospect) C5130
- CALGARY : Winstar Resources Ltd. Announces Completion of Financing and Election of Chairman (Winstar-financing) C5132
- VANCOUVER : Adex Securities Inc.'s Take Over Bid for Concord Pacific Group Inc. Expiring on December 20, 2002
(Adex-Concord-bid-expr) C5155 - WINNIPEG : The Exchange Industrial Group Inc. Announces Completion of Initial Public
Offering (Exchange-Industrial) C5156 - CALGARY : Compton Petroleum Corporation (Compton-common-shares) C5162 - TORONTO :
Patheon Inc. Appoints Chief Financial Officer (Patheon- appoints-CFO) C5168 - TORONTO : Utah Gold & Silver
Properties Acquisition and Joint Venture (Dumont-Nickel-Venture) C5175 - CALGARY : Pengrowth Energy Trust Announces Cash
Distribution for January 15, 2003 and Updates Commodity Price Hedging Program (Pengrowth- distributio) C5179 - SURREY,
BC : Silent Witness Announces Increase in Normal Course Issuer Bid (SWE-increase-bid) C5200 - VANCOUVER : The Keg
Royalties Income Fund announces January 2003 cash distribution (Keg-Fund-Jan-dist) Sports# C4895 - MONTREAL : Tennis
Canada reveals detailed plans of the renovation and development project for the Jarry Park Tennis Centre
(a-TennisCda-plans) C5118 - STETTLER, AB : Sport Select game information - Pro-Line and Over/Under (WCLC-Pro-Line-Over)
C5119 - STETTLER, AB : Sport Select game information - Point Spread (WCLC- Point-Spread)
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