Ontario to lure leading-edge auto plants

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The Ontario government would unveil a $500-million assistance program for automakers on April 14, 2004. The program is designed to attract leading-edge assembly plants and compete with lavish subsidies that have turned Alabama and Mississippi into Detroit South.

Government expenditures, Government domestic functions, Administration of General Economic Programs, Motor vehicle parts and accessories, Ontario, Business Aid Programs, Automobile equipment and supplies industry, Automotive parts industry, Business assistance, Domestic policy, Government finance

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Key talks on beef planned

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The Canadian beef industry is working to avert a financial crisis by negotiating with Japan over its fears of meat tainted with mad cow disease. Japan, which has banned Canadian beef imports, is concerned that U.S. beef exports may contain Canadian beef.

Canada, Japan, Foreign trade, Animal Slaughtering and Processing, Meat Products, Beef & Veal, Beef, International trade, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

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CRTC reins in major carriers on VoIP to create competition

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Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission has ruled that the phone companies can not set their own price for all services including voice over internet protocol. The details of the new regulations are presented.

United States, Communications, Broadcasting and Telecommunications, Telephone Communication, Commodity & service prices, Prices and rates, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, Voice over IP, VoIP (Network protocols), Communications industry, Canada. Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, Company pricing policy, VoIP (Network protocol)

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