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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has joined forces with Australia, Argentina, Canada, New Zealand and other large drinks exporters, in proposing that a register of geography-linked names of wines and spirits – now being discussed at the World Trade Organisation – should be voluntary, carrying little legal weight.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ROTHMANS, Benson and Hedges Inc. Canada, has lost a court battle in Saskatchewan, where the firm had argued the Canadian province’s Tobacco Control Act contravened the right to freedom of expression enshrined in Canada’s Constitution and that it violated federal anti-smoking legislation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN publishers are licking their wounds after a summer ill spent with paperwork, lawyers fees and frustration because of the crash of Jack Stoddart’s General Publishing Co. Ltd. and its book distribution arm, General Distribution Services Ltd. (GDS), which filed for voluntary bankruptcy last month at an Ontario court.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CREATING finished leather from tanned leather, (in its wet state), is not sufficiently important a manufacturing process to warrant the final product being legally considered a new good, made in the country where it was processed rather than where it was sourced, the chairman of a special World Trade Organisation committee has advised.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANZ Fischler has given himself a tough job; trying to persuade dairy farmers it is time to expose themselves to unfettered world markets when prices are at rock bottom, while facing hostility to further CAP reform from some European Union governments, notably France.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CREATING finished leather from tanned leather, (in its wet state), is not sufficiently important a manufacturing process to warrant the final product being legally considered a new good, made in the country where it was processed rather than where it was sourced, the chairman of a special World Trade Organisation committee has advised.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
WOMEN who smoke as teenagers have a 70 per cent greater risk of developing breast cancer than their non-smoking peers, claims a study by the British Columbia Cancer Agency, Canada. Research showed that women who started smoking within five years of starting menstruation were significantly more likely to develop breast cancer before reaching 50 than non-smokers.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
INDIGO Books & Music Inc. and the Canadian Booksellers Association have gone to the Federal Court of Canada to annul last month’s federal government decision to let Amazon.ca operate in Canada, despite regulations requiring a bookseller to be majority Canadian owned.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE VANCOUVER Airport Authority has won an appeal in the British Columbia Court of Appeal in a case involving local residents seeking compensation for effects of aircraft on a new runway, opened in 1996

Larry Berg, CEO of the Vancouver International Airport Authority, said: “The court has recognised the principle in law that all aspects of vital public works for the community at large are deemed authorised by the government that orders them.”…

BY MONICA DOBIE
NATIVE Canadians are reaping the healthiest rewards from oil exploitation on their ancestral lands since the boom years of the early 1980’s, with last year, CDN$296 million being collected by various tribes.

This flow of money is supervised by Indian Oil and Gas Canada, a regulatory body affiliated with the federal Ministry of Indian Affairs.…