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BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN furriers are expecting international demand for fur garments will drive Canadian exports up 10-15 per cent this year, to more than CAN$350-million according to the country’s National Post newspaper.

Alan Herscovici, executive vice-president of the Fur Council of Canada, said fur does not have the negative connotations it used to.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SHIPPING industry is looking forward to the anticipated accession of China to the World Trade Organisation, which after 15 years of often tortuous negotiations, is likely to be rubber stamped this autumn and become reality next Spring.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
CREDIT card fraudsters in the US and Canada are placing new kinds of skimming bugs to steal credit and charge card numbers from terminals used by north American retailers and restaurants.

Cardweb, a Maryland-based payment card information network, has claimed that tiny pieces of hardware are being planted by a fraudster working in a restaurant or shop.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ONLINE bookseller giant Amazon.com, is stirring things up in the Canadian Internet book market, by announcing it will lower shipping costs for Canadian customers, effectively stiffening up competition for the future Chapters-Indigo combine, the country’s largest book retailer.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada
CREDIT card fraudsters in the US and Canada are inserting new kinds of skimming bugs which steal credit and charge card numbers into electronic terminals used by most north American retailers and restaurants.

Cardweb, a Maryland-based payment card information network, has claimed that tiny pieces of hardware are being planted by fraudsters working under-cover in a restaurant or shop.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AFTER Mexican plantation workers walked off tobacco fields in Ontario, Canada, to protest about the deplorable working conditions, the Canadian section of the United Farm Workers of America has called for the establishment national labour standards to protect them.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada
THE ROYAL Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia are investigating the use of concrete tree spikes drilled into trees by environmental extremists to splinter the metal blade of a logger’s chainsaw or break huge saws used in mills, wrecking machinery and sending broken metal and concrete shrapnel in every direction.…

BY MIKE FOX
MAPLE syrup producers in Quebec are still using the banned chemical

paraformaldehyde, a practice which neighbouring Vermont fears could undermine the pure image of the product. The disinfectant helps increase production significantly.

A survey of 50 producers by Health Canada revealed 21 using the chemical.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CHAPTERS INC, Canada’s largest book retailer has revealed heavy losses in the past fiscal year of CAN$84.5 million, compared to a profit of CAN$17.2 million last year. However, the gloomy figures disguises good news about overall sales, which rose to CAN$686.5 million from CAN$660.3 million from the previous year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada
THE GREAT Lakes of Canada and the United States, in particular Lake Erie, suffered the highest levels of pollution in the sixties and seventies, attracting global attention and concern to urgently clean the waters that at their peak pollution levels actually caught fire.…