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Framers work on the roof as other workers install windows on the new Ramada Inn in Olds Tuesday.

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MONTREAL — Air Canada (TSX:AC.B) employees hope the rehiring of a restructuring expert as their new boss won’t mark a return of Canada’s biggest airline to bankruptcy protection for the second time in six years.

OTTAWA — Canadian governments can afford and should do more to stimulate the faltering economy that is expected to shrink a massive three per cent this year, says the OECD.

OTTAWA — The ability of Canada to develop the new technologies of the future is in jeopardy because entrepreneurs can’t get financing to see them through the recession, the Business Development Bank of Canada warns.

Jeremy Hocking of MD Interiors installs a door kick plate on the new Lacombe County administration building expansion. Completion of the 14,981-square-foot addition to the head office is nearing completion, with occupancy expected by late April or early May. The Scott Builders Inc. project is being paid for with $1.9 million in building reserves, $2.1 million from the county’s 2007 surplus and nearly $1.8 million through the province’s Municipal Sustainability Initiative.

CF Industries Holdings Inc. (NYSE:CF) again spurned a takeover bid from fertilizer giant Agrium Inc. (TSX:AGU), which last week sweetened its offer for the U.S. nitrogen producer.

Tourism spending in Canada increased 1.9 per cent in 2008, as outlays by Canadians at home continued to rise while those by international visitors decreased again.

Jim Roth continues to fill the sprawling premises he took over from The Brick last fall.

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