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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
THE CANADIAN government is taking steps to sell off its remaining 19 per cent share of Petro Canada, which is valued at approximately CDN$2.45 billion. According to the Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper, government representatives have contacted investment bankers to prepare for the transaction.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AVON Canada is closing its manufacturing operations in Montreal by the end of the year, a move that will see 150 layoffs. Work will be transferred to American plants in Illinois and Ohio, freeing up money the company said it needs for growth, after spending CDN$16 million on distribution facility improvements and call centre modernisation.…

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 PHILIP FINE

THE AMERICAN Textile Manufacturers Institute (ATMI) is voicing its opposition to the Bush administration’s recent tariff-slashing proposal for the ongoing World Trade Organisation Doha Development Round, saying the trade plan will further open the market to China and wipe out US$13 billion worth of US business.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE QUEBEC Superior Court has thrown out a lawsuit brought by Canada’s three major tobacco companies, JTI- Macdonald, Benson and Hedges and Imperial Tobacco who argued graphic health warnings on cigarette packages violated their right to freedom of expression.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL
IT is rare that an international organisation report on a scandal involving crime, corruption, war and environmental degradation names and shames high profile companies, but that is what is contained within the latest United Nations (UN) Security Council report on the Congo.…

KEITH NUTHALL
CANADA has joined formal World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes talks initiated by Brazil against the United States regarding American government subsidies to producers, users and exporters of upland cotton. The Brazilians claim that these payments break the WTO’s Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, Agreement on Agriculture, and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).…

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.…