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BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNIMAGINABLE happened in Canada this past winter. There was no professional ice hockey, the national sport. The entire season was hockey-free due to a lockout by the National Hockey League (NHL) team owners, who tried unsuccessfully to persuade NHL players to agree to terms that would potentially hamper their already fat salaries.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AN IN-DEPTH world analysis has concluded that although nurses taking on doctors’ duties provide a high quality care, they may neither save health care costs nor reduce a doctor’s workload.

The assessment for the UK-based Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews probed 16 studies involving more than 25,000 patients in Britain, the United States and Canada.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE MORE fast food restaurants there are in a community, the higher the rate of heart disease and death, so says a recent study published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health. However illness is not the result of eating junk food alone but the lifestyle associated with it, it says.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RECEIVED wisdom on the rumbling row over the CAP pits Tony Blair’s neo-liberal agribusiness technicians, armed with computerised high-tech wizardry, against Jacques Chirac’s subsidy-cosseted peasants, idly scratching their pigs. Naturally, the reality is less simple: British farming is efficient, but it is not always as profitable as the French.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S Sleeman Breweries Ltd will cut costs and raise its prices in the face of a first quarter profit slump from CDN$2.2 million a year ago to CDN$1.6 million for this January-March.

The Ontario-based move comes at a time when the company is trying to stay attractive to consumers during an on-going price war in the province.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S Sleeman Breweries Ltd has said it hopes to double its market share in Ontario within five years, but will not compromise the brand’s reputation by lowering prices to compete in the province’s current beer price war. The company has 10% market share in Alberta and British Columbia but only half of that in Ontario and Quebec.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE COMBINATION of noise and carbon monoxide exposure at work increases hearing loss according to a Université de Montréal, Canada, study. Researchers believe the reason for the increased hearing loss is that the reduction of oxygen in the blood stream accelerates the deterioration of the sensory cells of the inner ear.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE GREATER the number of fast food restaurants present in a community, the higher the rate of heart disease and death, according research published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health (ICES).

However, the study notes that illness is not necessarily the result of eating junk food alone but the lifestyle associated with it.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ACCORDING to global consumption figures, Israel is the world capital of teenage soft drink demand, with hot weather combined with a competitive market to create something of a utopia for drinks companies. An international survey of soft drinks consumption published by the Economist by 15 year olds of both sexes suggests that Israel has the world’s biggest teenage consumers of carbonated and still drinks, colas, sodas, juices and the like on a per capita basis.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN smokers are quitting at record rates due to smoking bans in public places and intolerance at home, said a recent study. Published in Statistics Canada’s Health Reports, it said between 2001 and 2003, 17% of smokers tried to quit, up from 1994-96’s 10%.…