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BY MATTHEW BRACE
FIGHTING money laundering is about getting your hands dirty. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) may pronounce global standards that it would like jurisdictions to follow, but all governments need help, and often regional bodies are better placed to do the detailed work than more remote global organisations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIE
A CANADIAN federal tobacco advertising law has been declared unconstitutional in the province of Québec for preventing tobacco company names, as well as cigarette brands, from being used to sponsor sports and cultural events. Its Court of Appeal struck down parts of the law on tobacco advertising and labeling by a 2-1 majority, leading legal experts to tell Canadian newspapers that a “JTI Tennis Tournament” would be possible, but not an “Export A Tournament.”…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A RECENT USA Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report has found many online pharmacies declaring they are based in Canada, selling cheap drugs under local liberal medicine sales laws, are actually based in the US or outside North America, in Vietnam and the Czech Republic, for instance.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
MONTREAL, Canada-based supermarket chain Metro Inc. will pay CDN$1.2 billion in cash and CDN$500 million worth of Metro class-A shares to buy the A&P Canada supermarket chain, headquartered in Ontario. A&P Canada operates 236 food stores in Ontario under the A&P, Dominion, Food Basics, The Barn and Ultra Food & Drug brands, with annual sales of CDN$4.4 billion and more than 32,000 employees.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
TWO bar owners in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan will fight recently enacted smoking laws in court, arguing the bans break the country’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Robert Jenkinson, from Manitoba, on trial for letting patrons smoke in his bar, will argue the provincial smoking ban violates the charter’s rules on fairness because it does not apply to local native reserves.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN beef cattle are being exported across the US border for the first time since the Alberta BSE scare in May 2003. Cattle and bison less than 30 months old and goats and sheep less than 12 months can now cross the border for immediate slaughter and fattening.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A BRITISH Columbia, Canada, judge has thrown out an application by several foreign tobacco manufacturers to be exempted from the provincial government’s lawsuit to recover smoking-associated medical costs. JTI-Macdonald Corp, BAT Industries plc, British American Tobacco (Investments) Ltd, Carreras Rothmans Ltd, Philip Morris Inc, Philip Morris International, Inc, RJ

Reynolds Tobacco Company, RJ Reynolds Tobacco International Inc, Rothmans International Research Division and Ryesekks plc have been cited in the case and are based, for the most part, in the US and Britain.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A RECENT USA Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report has found many online pharmacies declaring they are based in Canada, selling cheap drugs under local liberal medicine sales laws, are actually based in the US or outside North America, in Vietnam and the Czech Republic, for instance.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
ALTHOUGH the US economy is still somewhat sluggish, there are little signs so far that this is having a serious effect on the overall performance of the American paint and coatings industry. Where changes are likely to be seen over the coming years is within individual markets for these products.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
PROFITS for Canada’s Indigo Books & Music Inc. soared to CDN$11.7 million at its April 2 year-end, an increase of 129% or CDN$6.6 million over the previous year’s results. However, the company’s total revenues for the year were CDN$787.5 million, down 2.3% (CDN$18.2 million) from a year earlier.…