International Business News - Canada http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Southwest Airlines Co. said Tuesday it plans to sell international travel--a first for the low-fare carrier--through a partnership with Canada's WestJet. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080708/southwest-airlines-to-offer-flights-to-canada.htm Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:07:32 EDT An 11th century temple that sits on Cambodia's disputed border zone with Thailand was designated as a world heritage site, a UNESCO official said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080708/temple-on-disputed-cambodia-border-a-heritage-site.htm Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:59:09 EDT An 11th century temple that sits on Cambodia's disputed border zone with Thailand was designated as a world heritage site, a UNESCO official said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080707/temple-on-disputed-cambodia-border-a-heritage-site.htm Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:05:54 EDT BCE Inc, Canada's largest telecommunications company, said Friday it has agreed on terms of a $35 billion sale to a group led by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in the biggest leveraged buyout ever. The deal is expected to be completed by mid-December. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080705/canadian-telecom-bce-suitor-agree-on-terms.htm Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:22:04 EDT BCE Inc, Canada's largest telecommunications company, said Friday it has agreed on terms of a $35 billion sale to a group led by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in the biggest leveraged buyout ever. The deal is expected to be completed by mid-December. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/canadian-telecom-bce-suitor-agree-on-terms.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:31:07 EDT Canada's Jazz Air said Thursday it will cut 270 employees, or about 5.4 percent of its work force, as the regional discount airline operator reduces capacity by 5 percent. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/canadas-jazz-air-to-cut-270-employees.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:22:21 EDT Anti-seal hunt demonstrators have staged a protest outside European Union headquarters demanding that the 27-nation bloc impose a total ban on all imports of seal products from Canada and other countries. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/seal-hunt-protests-outside-eu-headquarters.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:56:34 EDT Some 12 million honey bees were released along Canada's largest highway on Monday after a truck transporting them overturned, police said. Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the truck carrying 330 crates of bees was traveling on a ramp when the load shifted and the truck overturned. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080630/12-million-bees-released-on-canadian-highway.htm Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:35:49 EDT Statistics Canada says tourism spending rose 1.3 percent in the first quarter. The agency says Canadians spent 2.3 percent more money in Canada and less on travel outside the country. International visitors to Canada spent 1.9 percent less, continuing a decline that began at the end of 2004. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080627/canada-tourism-spending-up-in-first-quarter.htm Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:40:01 EDT One of Canada's largest beef-processing plants, Lakeside Farm Industries of Brooks, Alberta, will be sold to a Canadian company, XL Foods Inc., in a deal worth about $107 million, owner Tyson Foods Inc. said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080625/tyson-agrees-to-sell-alberta-plant-for-107m.htm Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:02:31 EDT Tyson Foods Inc. said Wednesday it signed a letter of intent to sell its beef processing operations in Canada to XL Foods Inc. for 107 million Canadian dollars ($105.4 million) http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080625/tyson-to-sell-canadian-beef-operations-for-105-4m.htm Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:49:34 EDT A group representing Biovail Corp.'s founder claims the company's shareholder meeting lacked a quorum when it rejected the ex-CEO's new slate of directors. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080625/group-claims-biovail-meeting-lacked-quorum.htm Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:59:11 EDT A new case of mad cow disease was confirmed Monday in Canada, its 13th case since 2003. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Monday that the latest case of mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, does not suggest the problem is more widespread. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080624/canada-confirms-new-mad-cow-case.htm Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:37:54 EDT BCE Inc. on Friday won the right to go ahead with the largest leveraged buyout in history, a US$35 billion deal that the telecommunications company's bondholders fought, saying it would reduce their holdings to junk. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/76244-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080620/supreme-court-allows-bce-sale-proceed.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080620/supreme-court-allows-bce-sale-proceed.htm Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:13:55 EDT British Columbia's coroner's office called the discovery of a sixth floating foot a hoax, saying Thursday it was really an animal paw stuffed inside a running shoe. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080620/canadian-officials-say-6th-floating-foot-a-hoax.htm Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:31:33 EDT The Supreme Court of Canada said it will rule Friday on whether the $35 billion purchase of BCE Inc.--the largest leveraged buyout deal in history--can go ahead. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080619/supreme-court-to-rule-on-buyout-of-bce.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:40:54 EDT British Columbia's coroner's office called the discovery of a sixth floating foot a hoax, saying Thursday it was really an animal paw stuffed inside a running shoe. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080619/a-6th-human-foot-found-on-canadas-pacific-coast.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:52:56 EDT Former Nortel Networks chief executive officer Frank Dunn and two other former executives of the telecommunications equipment maker were charged Thursday by Canada's national police force with fraudulently mistating the company's financial results. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080619/police-charges-ex-nortel-exec-with-fraid.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:14:06 EDT The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said it will restrict Taser use after the head of its public watchdog said the force should only use the weapons in situations where suspects are combative or could cause harm. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080619/canadas-police-force-agrees-to-restrict-taser-use.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:30:40 EDT Another human foot was found Wednesday on a British Colombia shoreline, the second this week and the sixth within a year in a bizarre mystery that has confounded police. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080618/a-6th-human-foot-found-on-canadas-pacific-coast.htm Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:56:22 EDT