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By Keith Nuthall

A UNITED Nations-sponsored global initiative to encourage business schools to teach and promote social and environmentally responsible commercial practices has gathered a critical mass of support. More than 100 business schools worldwide have now signed up to the Principles for Responsible Management Initiative.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) challenge to new Canadian cheese production rules is likely, with the European Union, the United States and New Zealand expressing dismay at a WTO agriculture committee. New Zealand representatives claimed incoming limits on dairy proteins within cheese sold in Canada would illegally "restrict demand for dairy products"

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By Monica Dobie

A Canadian academic has shown how women trapped in abusive relationships often find the will keep living in the need to care for their dogs. A study from the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Dr Amy Fitzgerald, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology, said field research has shown the need to care for their animals actually prevents women from committing suicide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) should not assume that future technological innovations slashing carbon dioxide emissions will emerge spontaneously, senior north American scientists have argued. Researchers form the USA’s National Center for Atmospheric Research; the University of Colorado; and Montreal, Canada’s McGill University say the panel has "seriously underestimated" the work required to develop such technology.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London, and SUZANNE KOELEGA, in Sint Maarten, Dutch West Indies

AS with much of life today, the future of gambling is closely tied to the Internet, and this development of an international industry based on instant cross-border cash flows has raised understandable concerns about money laundering.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

WOMEN trapped in abusive relationships often find the will keep living in the need to care for their dogs, according to a study from the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Dr Amy Fitzgerald, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology said the need to care for their animals actually prevents women from committing suicide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE HOST country of the oncoming Codex Alimentarius committee on food labelling will resist plans to draft global guidelines saying food product labelling should inform consumers of the amounts of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and sugars within processed foods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A CANADIAN court has ruled that Canada’s only single malt whisky producer cannot use ‘Glen’ in its brand title ‘Glen Breton’, because it makes the drink appear it was made in Scotland. In reality, its distillery is in eastern Canada’s Cape Breton, a region heavily populated by victims of the Nineteenth Century’s Highland Clearances in northern Scotland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has confirmed it is drafting proposed trade sanctions against the annual seal hunt in eastern Canada, following pressure from the European Parliament for an outright European Union seal fur ban. With environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas promising proposals "within months", British Conservative MEP Neil Parish said: "The time has come for the Commission to take action."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) challenge to new Canadian cheese production rules is now increasingly likely, with the European Union (EU), the United States and New Zealand formally expressing dismay at a WTO agriculture committee meeting. Speaking today (18-3) in Geneva, New Zealand diplomats claimed Canada’s new "compositional standards" for cheese – which enter into force on December 13 – defy global Codex Alimentarius guidelines.…