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BY ALAN OSBORN

A NEW crisis over the presence of genetically modified (GM) ingredients in food and livestock feed has once more focused attention on the European Union’s (EU’s) controversial GM policies. It has especially raised the spectre of job losses, farm bankruptcies and higher consumer prices if a relaxation of the current de facto zero tolerance restriction applying to unauthorised GM products is not agreed soon.…

By Leah Germain

An international team of scientists has made breakthrough progress in diagnosing and treating epilepsy in mice, an important discovery that promises a potential development of a major drug for this common condition. According to the research team, mice share an almost identical version of a gene with humans, which they have linked to epilepsy.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

CANADIAN book publishers have been reporting higher levels of returns than normal this summer from Indigo Books and Music, Canada’s dominant book retailer, and they say the effects have been damaging.

Toronto-based ECW Press publisher Jack David said returns skyrocketed between May and July, although he did not make statistics available.…

By Leah Germain

The threat posed to research teams by some environmental activists was starkly illustrated by a recent potentially dangerous interference with an experiment involving explosives in Canada. A joint Canadian and American research study was nearly derailed last month when a campaigner attempted to prevent a major seismic experiment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Canada are about to embark on detailed negotiations to upgrade their existing long-standing nuclear cooperation agreement. A key aim of the talks, European Commission and Canadian officials told World Nuclear News, was the authorisation of widespread nuclear technology transfers between the EU and Canada, which are currently tightly restricted.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THERE seems little doubt that European consumers are not only still hostile to the idea of buying products containing genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), they may actually becoming increasingly negative. They just don’t like the idea of applying creams or make-up from organisms containing genes from different and often unrelated species introduced to give them special qualities such as pest or disease resistance.…

BY JAMES BURNS

REDEVELOPING major international airports is always a challenge – especially when they have grown incrementally. Sometimes the best plan is to rip it up and start again, to quote a popular 1980’s pop song. And that is what happened at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport – Canada’s largest hub.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

WHO regulates money laundering at the stock exchange listings of companies around the world? If this is a beguilingly simplistic question, then the answer is anything but.

The reply depends not only upon which country one is referring to but also on which companies list in which market and in which stock exchange sector.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London; RUSSELL BERMAN, in Washington DC; JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo; RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi; BY WANG FANGQING, in Shanghai; EMMA JACKSON, in Ottawa; KARRYN MILLER; and KEITH NUTHALL

THE AUTOMOBILE sector maybe one of the most globally integrated manufacturing industries on the planet, but national governments (or continental bodies in Europe) still hold sway regarding regulation.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THESE are uncertain times for international aviation deals generally thanks to the global recession, but nowhere is the situation more fraught than in Washington where negotiations for the second stage of the 2007 ‘open skies’ agreement between the European Union (EU) and the USA appear to have run into the buffers.…