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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LATEST BSE discovery in Canada has inspired the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund (R-CALF)/United Stockgrowers of America organisation to sue the US Agriculture Department to prevent imports of Canadian cattle and beef products.

R-CALF says Canadian imports pose health risks to people and cows, costing American producers up to US$3 billion in lost demand.…

BY MARK ROWE AND PAUL COCHRANE

INTRODUCTION

JUST as chocolate sells well in cold countries, so do soft drinks flourish in hot countries, which would suggest that North Africa and the Levant presents an inviting face to the international drinks market.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

THE CANADIAN government has followed in the footsteps of the European Union (EU) by banning the use of lead acetate in progressive hair dyes namely, Grecian Formula 16 (Canadian sister of the fabled Grecian 2000 Cream in the UK).…

BY MONICA DOBIE
FOR many people, Europeans in particular, Canada represents wide-open spaces, pristine wilderness teaming with wildlife, a high standard of living and a country tolerant of other cultures.

And Canadians are generally a happy bunch, who smugly cherish their social differences with their neighbours south of the border, notably that their high taxes are fair because the money creates social programmes and a national health care system that their American counterparts do not enjoy.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

PATIENTS in need of an organ transplant may stand a better chance of receiving a new heart, kidney or liver in good time because of a substance found in a tiny hopping bug. Canadian scientists from the Department of Biochemistry at Queens University, in Kingston, Ontario, discovered an antifreeze protein in snow fleas that may increase the shelf life of human organs for transplantation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE and KEITH NUTHALL

TIME was when Canadians focused a significant proportion of their habitual condescension towards their American neighbours through beer. US brands were dismissed as weak in alcohol, tasteless and generic. But today, even though the big US beer labels taste the same as they ever did – much to the relief of many consumers around the world, of course – Canadian beer tastes are changing, especially among the young.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s (WTO) general council has permanently amended the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement to make permanent a 2003 waiver helping poor countries obtain generic medicines during health emergencies. The TRIPS amendment enables any WTO member country to export generic pharmaceuticals made under a compulsory licence to assist countries lacking their own manufacturing capacity and whose nurses and doctors would otherwise be unable to deal with a serious disease problem.…

KEITH NUTHALL
AN INFESTATION of European flat oysters by the parasite Bonamia Ostreae, in Malaspina Inlet, on the west coast of British Columbia (BC), Canada, has been reported by the Office International des Épizooties (OIE). It was uncovered by a research experiment by the Fisheries and Oceans Canada ministry’s shellfish health laboratory in Nanaimo, also in BC.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
WAL-MART Canada Corp is consulting its lawyers after the retail chain was told to accept union recognition at a Quebec store, only the second time this has happened in the whole of north America. The Quebec Labour Relations Commission has certified workers at the Saint-Hyacinthe store, 60 km east of Montreal, as belonging to and represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers Canada (UFCW).…

BY MONICA DOBIE
MONTREAL, Canada-based Alcan Inc will invest US$30 million in building a tobacco packaging plant in St Petersburg, Russia. Production will begin before the end of April 2006 with more than 120 people employed at the facility. “The Russian packaging market represents an attractive growth opportunity and is strategically important to Alcan,” said Christel Bories (CORRECT SPELLING), President and Chief Executive Officer of Alcan Packaging, which employs about 73,000 people in 56 countries.…