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BY MONICA DOBIE
HIGHJACKERS in Langley, British Columbia stole 10 million Imperial Tobacco cigarettes from trucks bound for retail outlets in the Canadian province, with an estimated value of CDN $3.8 million (US$2.86 million). The theft is the latest in a string criminal events surrounding tobacco.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIE
WOMEN not only suffer more work health and safety problems than men, workplaces are actually designed to fit the average male worker, rather than the average employee – regardless of gender – a European Union (EU) report has claimed.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN landowners are appealing against a court decision that has confirmed the right of mining companies to exploit minerals under land that they do not own. Every province in the country is bound by similar laws – dating back to nineteenth century’s gold-rushes – that state that mining is the first and best use of land, so therefore mining companies should have access to privately held property.…

BY RICHARD HURST
The former British colony of Sierra Leone has been a focus of a money laundering scandal since the September 11 attacks in the US, when it was uncovered (in the New York Times) that a senior member of the al Qaeda organisation, Ibrahim Bah, had been purchasing and stockpiling diamonds mined by the country’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE CITY of Boston and the USA state of New Hampshire have officially announced they will import Canadian prescription drugs without US Food and Drug Administration approval, despite Washington recently outlawing the practice. Boston will use the Canadian medicine for its employees while New Hampshire’s will be destined for prison inmates and Medicaid recipients.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS monitoring the health of Walkerton, Ontario, residents in the wake of the May 2000 E-coli drinking water disaster, have discovered new medical problems that can be traced to the contamination. Findings from the second year of a seven-year health study have showed increased incidence of kidney problems producing abnormally high volumes of urine containing protein, suggesting structural damage to kidneys.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN airports are to scale back SARS screening operations and suspend the use of thermal scanners, according to the federal Ministry of Health. The use of temperature scanners will also be gradually phased out over the next three weeks.…

BY PHILIP FINE

PEPSI and Coke’s exclusive deal with two large Canadian school boards will have to be revealed after a 15-year-old convinced the provincial Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario that details should be made public. Ontario student Nicholas Dodds was in Grade 8 (aged 13) when he began the two-year battle with the cola companies and school boards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALL but one of the commonly used forms of asbestos have been added to a United Nations blacklist, enabling countries to block further imports without being challenged in global tribunals such as the World Trade Organisation. Amosite, actinolite, anthophyllite and tremolite were added to the Rotterdam Convention Prior Informed Consent (PIC) list by an intergovernmental negotiating committee, meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.…

BY PHILIP FINE in Montreal

THE CANADIAN government is investigating the production of energy bars, power drinks and weight-loss preparations, inquiring into possible dangers posed by these products pose and the veracity of claims made by manufacturers about them. Many of the products promise to boost energy or shed weight.…