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BY MONICA DOBIE
A RECORD number of cattle remain on farms across Canada because of the bans imposed on the country’s beef exports following last year’s BSE scare. Statistics Canada has reported that 14.7 million head of cattle existed in January 2004, 1.2 million (or 8.7 per cent) more than the same period last year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SOME prominent authors have been unmasked as writing rave reviews for their own books or for colleagues when Amazon.com Canadian website glitch mistakenly revealed the identities of thousands of people who had anonymously posted book reviews. John Rechy, author of the best-selling 1963 novel “City of Night” and winner of the PEN-USA West lifetime achievement award admitted to the New York Times that he submitted a five star review of his own book.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
LANDOWNERS in British Columbia (BC), Canada, are appealing against a court decision confirming the right of mining companies to exploit minerals under local land that they do not own. The case involved Western Industrial Clay Products, who staked a claim to clay under a couple’s ranch in Kamloops, BC, to make cat litter.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
APPROVAL for the CDN$8.5 billion Horizon oil sands project in Fort McMurray, Alberta, has been granted to Canadian Natural Resources, by both by Alberta’s energy regulator and Canada’s federal environmental assessment agency. The go ahead came with 17 conditions relating to mining operations, resource conservation and tailings management that must be met by the Calgary-based oil and gas producer.…

BY PHILIP FINE, in Montreal, Canada

Canadian beverage manufacturers have decided to pull soft drinks from school vending machines, according to Refreshments Canada. The trade group announced that next September, water and 100% fruit juices will make up at least half of the beverage selections offered for sale in Canadian elementary and middle schools.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A PUBLIC awareness campaign sponsored by the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC) – a Ottawa government agency – warning savers that mutual funds are not covered by the federal deposit insurance has sparked a row in the Canadian financial services sector.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN farmers will continue to feed cows’ blood to cattle despite a US assessment that it could spread mad cow disease. Canada’s ministry of agriculture said there is little risk that blood could be infectious and will not prohibit it as feed.…

BY PHILIP FINE

CANADIAN tax auditors will try recover up to CDN$1 billion (GBPounds 430 million) from the JTI-Macdonald Corporation of Toronto. The province of Quebec says the company owes it unpaid taxes from the early 1990s on, ironically enough, Export A cigarettes.…

BY PHILIP FINE, in Montreal, Canada

An extra day in this year’s Christmas week seemed to be the key to helping

Canadian book sales make a strong showing in a season marked by healthy

non-fiction sales. Paul McNally, owner of the four-store prairie chain,

McNally Robinson, says that Christmas falling on a Thursday was the key to

a 35 per cent jump in sales from last year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED States wants to negotiate a deal with Canada that would free up controls on domestic flights in each other’s country. US Ambassador Paul Cellucci has told Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper that Washington wants a liberalised aviation policy that would include American carriers transporting passengers between airports in Canada and Canadian airlines flying between American cities.…