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Byline: Bloomberg Stora Enso Oyj plans layoffs that may affect more than 5,000 workers and Metso Oyj said it will eliminate as many as 1,200 paper-related jobs as Europe's paper [...]

Byline: FABIOLA SANCHEZ, KARL RITTER; Associated Press VENEZUELA CARACAS -- First milk, butter, coffee and cornmeal ran short. Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities - [...]

Byline: DAVID MILSTEAD VOX KP Tissue Inc. made a December debut on the Toronto Stock Exchange with little fanfare. Odd, really, because KP Tissue is one of Canada's leading consumer-product [...]

Byline: Reuters BUSINESS TICKER / NORTH AMERICA / RESTRUCTURING Catalyst Paper Corp. said on Thursday it has chosen to delay a $21-million interest payment, a move that could trigger a [...]

Byline: MARTIN MORROW; Special to The Globe and Mail THEATRE REVIEW Paper Series Written by David Yee Directed by Nina Lee Aquino Starring Byron Abalos, Kawa Ada and Rebecca Applebaum [...]

Byline: AP International Paper Co. said yesterday it will eliminate 1,000 to 1,500 salaried jobs by the end of next year as the 'next step' in cost-cutting moves. The company, [...]

Byline: CP Fraser Papers Inc. says it has arranged a new financing package with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and will use money from the new $25-million one-year term to [...]

Byline: JIM CARLTON; WALL STREET JOURNAL STAFF International Paper Co. has agreed to buy archrival Weyerhaeuser Co.'s containerboard, packaging and recycling businesses for $6-billion (U.S.), an all-cash deal that is [...]

Byline: BRENNAN CLARKE CATALYST VICTORIA -- Stung by a series of legal setbacks in its fight against high industrial tax rates, Catalyst Paper has quietly paid more than $15-million in [...]

Byline: MARLENE HABIB; Special to the Globe and Mail REPORT ON GREEN SOLUTIONS / ECO-FRIENDLY PRODUCTS Canadian companies have become adept at turning trash into treasure, taking throwaway materials and [...]

Byline: GARY MICHAEL DAULT GALLERY GOING / VISUAL ARTS / REVIEW mail@garymichaeldault.com *** Ed Pien at Libralato Gallery $3,200-$6,800. Until March 20, 129 Tecumseth St., Toronto; 416-365-3003, http://www.birchlibralato.com Chinese paper [...]

Byline: CHRIS MORRIS; The Canadian Press FREDERICTON -- It's going to be a bleak Christmas for many in the forestry community of Miramichi in eastern New Brunswick. Paper giant UPM [...]

Byline: Bloomberg Fraser Papers Inc., a forestry products company partly owned by Brookfield Asset Management Inc., said it will cut 135 jobs in Maine as it reduces production at its [...]

Byline: From CNW Group and CCNMatthews Fraser Papers Inc. (FPS-TSX) 3 mo to Dec 31 Year Ago Revenue 187,000,000 219,000,000 Net Profit (12,000,000) (22,000,000) Net prf/shr (0.40) (0.75) Yr end [...]

Byline: Brennan Clarke IN BRIEF A B.C. Supreme Court decision handed down yesterday dealt a major blow to Catalyst Pulp and Paper's battle against high industrial property tax rates in [...]

Byline: DAVID EBNER FORESTRY VANCOUVER -- It doesn't take much for news to be considered good in the struggling paper-making business. Although Domtar Corp. said demand for its products - [...]

Byline: F.F. LANGAN; Special to The Globe and Mail GEOFFREY HUGHSON, 85 NAVAL OFFICER, ENGINEER, BUSINESSMAN Just two days before his 22nd birthday, Geoffrey Hughson was in the thick of [...]

Byline: GORDON PITTS NEWSPRINT: BANKRUPTCY FILINGS: THE EPIC RISE AND FALL OF MIGHTY ABITIBI Failing to push paper in a digital age There are two epic stories of why AbitibiBowater [...]

Byline: CP Canada's forest, paper and packaging industry is expected to face another tough year in 2009 after the largest players lost more than $3.3-billion last year, including $1.3-billion in [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GIOVANNETTI; Staff TORONTO -- Ontario needs to begin talks with the federal government to find a way to preserve the province's community newspapers after a wave of closings [...]

GLITTER BOX by Julie Moon (Mat board, acrylic, glitter and glue) Julie Moon is a ceramist based in Toronto. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND by Pierce Atkinson (Velvet and fringe) Pierce Atkinson [...]

Byline: DANIEL LEBLANC, LAURA STONE OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the federal government will continue cracking down on tax evasion after another massive leak of offshore financial records, [...]

Byline: GARY MASON; Staff CALGARY -- How much say should a secularminded provincial government have over course curriculum in Catholic schools? That is the question at the heart of a [...]

Byline: WENDY STUECK; Staff VANCOUVER -- The University of British Columbia says it has rigorous policies in place to protect the integrity of its research and will investigate allegations of [...]

Byline: Jacqueline Nelson; Staff 'Howdy,' Roy Gori calls out, his voice ricocheting off the marble floor and wood-panelled walls of Manulife Financial Corp.'s hushed lobby. The incoming chief executive officer [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]Reuters, The Canadian Press Canadian lifestyle retailer Roots Corp. said on Wednesday it filed a preliminary prospectus with the securities regulatory authorities in Canada for a proposed initial public [...]

Byline: THERESA SUZUKI; Staff THE LISTING ASKING PRICE $3,499,000 TAXES $13,484.27 (2016) LOT SIZE 60 by 102 feet, irregular LISTING AGENT Judith Moireen Hume, Chestnut Park Real Estate Ltd., Brokerage [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]The Canadian Press WINNIPEG -- A Winnipeg newspaper says the Manitoba government has no plans to try to legislate upgraded training in sexual-assault law for its provincial court judges. [...]

Byline: IAN BAILEY; Staff VANCOUVER -- B.C. Premier John Horgan has apologized to a former provincial Liberal leader for falsely claiming he completed little written work in his role as [...]

Byline: JOANNA SLATER; Staff NEW YORK -- When Michael Sciaraffo stepped into an F train earlier this month in lower Manhattan, he experienced a form of irritation familiar to most [...]

Byline: LAUREN KRUGEL; The Canadian Press EDMONTON -- Paleontologists at the University of Alberta have a new theory explaining why some dinosaurs stood on two feet instead of four - [...]

Byline: KELLY GRANT; Staff Small children whose mothers have been prescribed opioids are significantly more likely to suffer an overdose than the children of mothers who take a different class [...]

Byline: JOANNA SLATER, ADRIAN MORROW NEW YORK, WASHINGTON -- The legal battle over U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration ban intensified on Monday as supporters and opponents of the measure sought [...]

Byline: KONRAD YAKABUSKI; Staff Of all the protesters, free traders and peace-lovers depressed at the prospect of four years of tendentious tweets, protectionism and a faster-advancing Doomsday Clock, perhaps no [...]

Byline: Delphia Tsang After turning the last page of my favourite novel, I close the book, hug it to my chest, curl into a ball and start to cry. Yup, [...]

Byline: CP Canada's pulp and paper industry is expected to struggle thorough another tough year of losses and plant closures next year, the Conference Board said in a report released [...]

Byline: SONALI VERMA NUMBER CRUNCHER sverma@globeandmail.com What are we looking for? When interest rates are low, it is easy for many businesses to prosper. But when rates are rising, as [...]

Byline: ANDREW RYAN WEEKEND VIEWING jaryan@globeandmail.com TV life begins anew in the dead of winter. The first weeks of the year bring fresh midseason fare, most likely because networks know [...]

William (Bill) Dickson, Q.C. Catalyst Paper Corporation Chairman Michel Desbiens is pleased to announce the appointment of William (Bill) Dickson, Q.C. to the Board of Directors. Mr. Dickson brings extensive [...]

Byline: The Canadian Press Montreal -- A former Montreal man who parlayed a red paper clip into a house in Kipling, Sask., has decided it's time to trade again. Kyle [...]

Byline: Wendy Stueck Cutbacks at Catalyst Paper Corp.'s Elk Falls mill in Campbell River, B.C., will extend into the new year as a result of a fibre shortage, the company [...]

Byline: ANDREW WILLIS National Bank set a major precedent when it bailed out individual customers who owned $1.85-billion of troubled commercial paper in its money market mutual funds. In simple [...]

Byline: TARA PERKINS AND JOHN PARTRIDGE HSBC Bank Canada has become the second bank to say it was telling clients to buy non-bank commercial paper based on the ratings it [...]

Byline: Reuters Finland is struggling to collect enough timber from its forests to feed the country's paper mills as an early spring thaw makes the ground too soft for logging [...]

Byline: JOANNA SLATER NEW YORK -- In 1855, Harriet Tubman's father paid twenty dollars to buy her mother's freedom. Now, their daughter will displace a former president on the face [...]

Byline: Bloomberg Xerox Corp. says it has invented a way to print documents whose images last only a day, so the paper can be used again an unlimited number of [...]

Byline: KAREN HOWLETT TORONTO -- The Ontario government is giving the province's pulp and paper companies a 14-per-cent break on their hydro bills as part of a financial-aid package designed [...]

Byline: KONRAD YAKABUSKI MONTREAL -- Gary Healey reacted with wry resignation yesterday at AbitibiBowater Inc.'s announcement that it will permanently close its near-century-old Grand Falls-Windsor, Nfld. facility early next year, [...]

Byline: OLIVER MOORE HALIFAX -- Union workers in central Newfoundland who overwhelmingly rejected a restructuring proposed by AbitibiBowater are now waiting to see if they have voted themselves out of [...]

Byline: PHILIP JACKMAN Collected Wisdom kicks off this week with an item that contains a certain amount of hot air. Anyone who says, 'So, what else is new?' gets their [...]