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BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA and China have agreed to share information in the field of natural resources, including industrial minerals. The Natural Resources Canada federal ministry has signed agreements with China’s National Development and Reform Commission and its Ministry of Land and Resources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LEATHER industry could shed significant numbers of jobs in poor and rich countries following a successful World Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha Development Round agreement on industrial and textile goods. Its aim is to slash tariffs across the board, and in that instance, said a UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report, there will be winners and losers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AUTO manufacturing firms will be closely monitoring next week’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong for signs that the WTO’s long-running Doha Development Round talks are about to crack open national automobile markets. Key auto industry countries – the US, the European Union, Canada, Japan, South Korea, India and Brazil – have been making steady progress this year in identifying non-tariff barriers to trade they would like to remove, such as burdensome customs procedures, technical engineering rules and licences.…

BY MONICA DOBIE and BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CANADIAN province of Quebec will ban smoking in public places, including bars and restaurants, within a year according to its provincial government. Quebec health minister Philippe Couillard said he would introduce legislation this spring.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
MINING exploration spending in British Columbia, Canada, doubled last year, according to the province’s energy and mines minister Richard Neufeldt. Roughly CDN$130 million was spent by mining companies in 2004, up from CDN$55 million in 2003 and four times the amount spent in 2001.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
BACTERIA have never had it so good in Canada. Demonized worldwide by environmental health officers, bacteria are being feted and are currently living large in Ontario, being injected into tips to feast on sludge. Professor Elizabeth Edwards, a scientist from the University of Toronto has discovered a way to farm naturally occurring bacteria, introducing them into toxic landfills, where they neutralise tough chlorine-based pollutants.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union and Norway have divided up common stocks within the North Sea for 2006, overcoming difficult conservation problems, especially regarding cod. Brussels and Oslo have agreed on a long-term management plan for cod, to come into effect when the stock has returned to safe biological levels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

THE CHAIRMAN, CEO and founder of Canadian brewer Sleeman has said he will fight to keep his family name in the beer business, after a review of commercial options was ambushed and turned into a takeover battle.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE SUPREME Court of Canada has unanimously upheld a Saskatchewan law than bans displaying cigarettes in any store that permits minors on the premises. Rothmans Benson & Hedges, the company that challenged the validity of this provincial legislation, argued that because the federal law allows retail ‘power wall’ displays of tobacco, provincial legislation should be ruled invalid.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN federal government is still providing terrorism related insurance to the Canada’s aviation and nuclear industries at no cost but is keen to end this support three years on from the 9/11 attacks that forced insurers from these markets.…