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MONTREAL — Using pretty women to sell beer is not exactly a novel idea, but Molson finds itself under attack this week for a series of calendars featuring scantily clad Quebec "goddesses." The idea was to highlight the most beautiful women from five Quebec regions, and auditions were held to make the selections. In some cases the winners received a trip to Cuba for the photo shoot. The images (which you can see here, and are only marginally safe for work) are for the most part no racier than what one would find in Sports Illustrated's swimsuit edition (Mind you,...

Molson Inc. shares shot to their highest level in more than a year Friday after the brewer said it Adolph Coors Co. had sweetened the pot in their planned merger, winning the support of key investors. The move comes with shareholders scheduled to decide on the proposed $8-billion merger between Molson and Golden, Colo.-based Coors next Wednesday.

Adolph Coors Co. and Canada's Molson Inc. on Thursday agreed to merge in a deal that would create the world's fifth-largest brewer by volume. The fate of the deal remained unclear, however, due to a last-minute takeover offer for Molson from Ian Molson, a one-time deputy chairman who resigned in June after a falling out with Chairman Eric Molson, his cousin. Under the Coors-Molson agreement, Molson shareholders would control about 55 percent of the combined company, which would remain largely in the hands of the founding Molson and Coors families. The deal would solve expansion issues for both companies, which...

MONTREAL (CP) - Molson Inc., Canada's largest brewer, has agreed to merge with Adolph Coors Co. in a $6-billion US deal that creates a new beer behemoth and ends the independence of two of North America's biggest family-run brewing icons. "This transaction allows us to create a stronger company in a consolidating global industry while preserving Molson's rich heritage as North America's oldest beer company and Canada's leading brewer," Eric Molson, chairman of Molson, said in a combined statement with Coors early Thursday. The agreement would create the world's fifth biggest brewer - to be called Molson Coors Brewing Co....

Nine men have been charged and police have seized more than 30,000 marijuana plants worth about $30 million in two massive grow operations in Barrie. Officers from the OPP drug enforcement section and the Barrie Police Service executed a search warrant early Saturday at a former Molson brewery site at One Big Bay Point Rd. The site, located beside the busy lanes of Highway 400, was passed daily by hundreds of thousands of drivers. A second search warrant was executed at 4921 Hwy 11 North, Oro-Medonte Township just north of Barrie. There officers seized approximately 3,000 more marijuana plants. Both...

I am Canadian; Molson's ad http://www.fun.from.hell.pl/2002-10-18/i-am-canadian.wmv