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BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane, EDWARD PETERS, in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg, MARK ROWE, in London, SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo and MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal.
FRAUD is fraud, jurists might say. And although jurisprudence generally has a universal flavour and there are frauds that are committed the world over, it would be a travesty of the truth to say that crimes involving deception uniform by nature.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN tobacco companies may have to introduce a self-snuffing cigarette if recent federal government proposals are given the go ahead. New standards outlined in a consultation paper by Health Canada, urge Ottawa to insist that cigarettes sold in Canada are designed to burn at lower temperatures or self-extinguish if a puff is not taken.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON, in Newcastle, England, PHILIP FINE and MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada

SPACE may be Star Trek’s final frontier, but in reality innovations used on rockets and satellites do not stay in orbit; they are often brought back to Earth where they have been used by auto-manufacturers to break their own technological boundaries.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE SUPPLY of Canadian seal meat and salami may rise if the country’s federal government adopts proposals discussed at a recent Canada Seal Forum meeting. Government officials, animal rights activists and hunters met in Newfoundland, to discuss changing existing regulation that prohibits hunting blue-back seals until the age of two and baby seals until they moult their fluffy coats at two-and-a-half weeks.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
RECYCLED nappy materials collected from a pilot municipal programme in California are being used to manufacture shoe insoles. The project launched in Santa Clarita, is the first such scheme in the United States. The six-month endeavour will include 500 families, who volunteer their used nappies in marked bags that are collected weekly.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CITY of Santa Clarita, California, has launched America’s first nappy recycling programme which will pick up nappies from 500 families in special plastic bags. The recovered material will help make non-food packaging and products including wallpaper, oil filters, and shoe insoles.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
INFESTATIONS of sea lice on Canadian fish farms is probably to blame for the massive decline of wild pink salmon in British Columbia’s (BC) south coast, according to a report from the Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (PFRCC).…

BY MARK ROWE
THE THEORY of evolution is as relevant to the tobacco industry’s battle against counterfeiters as it is to the animal kingdom. As technology evolves to give the brand owners the edge, so the counterfeiter moves quickly to play catch up, with both cat and mouse becoming ever more sophisticated in efforts to gain the upper hand.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE US Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit brought by the Canadian government against R.J. Reynolds, which sought to recover US$1 billion in taxes and revenues allegedly lost through cigarette smuggling from 1991 to 1997.

Canada claimed R.J.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
LONGSTANDING Canadian meat traders have vowed not to ship to Cuba in future because the Caribbean island dumped them for American competitors.

The switch followed an agreement in November 2001 by Fidel Castro to buy agricultural goods from US companies, following a hurricane that ravaged his country.…