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MELBOURNE/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China is stepping up attempts to hamper BHP Billiton's $39 billion hostile offer for Potash Corp, amid worries about future supplies of fertilizer it needs to rapidly boost food production.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Burger King Holdings Inc , the No. 2 U.S. fast-food chain, agreed to be bought by investment firm 3G Capital for $24 per share, or about $3.26 billion.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The leader of Canada's most populous province urged the Bank of Canada on Wednesday not to raise interest rates next week, wading into territory usually deemed inappropriate for politicians.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - A Canadian company started construction on Tuesday on what it says is the world's first industrial-scale plant to turn municipal waste into biofuel.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's established telecom companies must spend more than half of a C$770 million ($727 million) fund kept in escrow to expand broadband Internet to rural and remote communities and return the remainder to urban customers, the communications regulator said on Tuesday.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's economic growth rate slowed more sharply than expected in the second quarter due to a slowdown in consumer spending and a weaker trade performance, fueling uncertainty about the pace of interest rate hikes by the Bank of Canada.

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - Standing-room-only movie viewing at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival won't be necessary after a key theater was declared free of bedbugs Tuesday.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Most of Canada's primary securities dealers still think the Bank of Canada will raise interest rates next week, but now forecast the slowing economy will make it the last such move of 2010.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - In a speech to his caucus on Tuesday, Canadian Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff avoided talk of toppling the country's minority Conservative government, suggesting Prime Minister Stephen Harper will hold on to power at least until yearend.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Magna International Inc said it will likely go ahead later on Tuesday with a plan to buy out founder Frank Stronach's controlling share block, collapsing the giant auto-parts maker's dual-class share structure.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's economic recovery slowed sharply in the second quarter to an annualized gross domestic product growth of 2.0 percent after a stunning 5.8 percent expansion in the first quarter, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday.

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canada's vast oil sands operations are polluting the Athabasca River system, researchers said on Monday, in a report that is bound to fuel the environmental battle over developing the resource.

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Every year Vancouver resident Stephen Ottridge takes hamburgers or steak to his street's annual summer block party.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index climbed on Monday morning, led by rising financial issues, which had retreated in recent weeks on the back of concerns about the global recovery and mixed banking results.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian developers are plotting a small revolution in the still-tiny market for electric cars, with a concept vehicle made from hemp set to debut at a specialized auto show next month.

DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co> is recalling about 575,000 Windstar vans in 21 cold-weather U.S. states and Canada from model years 1998 to 2003 because of the possibility that the rear axle may fracture due to corrosion, federal regulators reported on Friday.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Three men arrested in Canada on terror-related charges -- one of whom was reported to have once auditioned for the "Canadian Idol" TV show -- were plotting bomb attacks and had connections to a group fighting coalition forces in Afghanistan, police said on Thursday.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Quarterly profit at Royal Bank of Canada fell more than expected due to weak trading income, while a similar drop in profit at smaller rival National Bank of Canada was not as severe as analysts had feared.

TORONTO (Reuters) - The NHL is prepared to throw women's hockey an Olympic lifeline and said on Thursday that it is in talks to help set up a North American professional league for the world's top female players.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fast money is building in Potash Corp after BHP Billiton Ltd's $39 billion hostile bid, but the sheer size of the potential deal could limit the sway arbitrageurs and hedge funds have on the outcome.