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BY KEITH NUTHALL
GROUND-LEVEL checks on the thickness of polar ice caps are being staged by the European Space Agency (ESA) to assess environmental monitoring data which will culled its oncoming Cryosat satellite mission. ESA has sent scientists to ice sheets in the north of Canada, Greenland and Norway.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A NEW cream that boosts the immune system to recognise, seek out and destroy dangerous pre-cancerous cells has been approved in Canada to treat skin lesions caused by sun exposure. The cream called Aldara represents a less painful way of removing lesions than traditional surgery with liquid nitrogen or a razor.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
NORTH Americans are abandoning the traditional enclosed malls and are instead flocking to open-air ‘lifestyle centres’ or main street shopping, according to a retail expert.

At a recent conference for the International Council of Shopping Centres (ICSC), in Calgary, Canada, Ian Thomas chairperson of Vancouver-based Thomas Consultants Inc said: “Consumers are no longer infatuated with the mall.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S Rothmans Benson & Hedges Inc. reported lower fourth quarter 2003-4 profit and sales figures after year-earlier results were boosted by smokers stocking up before cigarette-tax hikes in Ontario and Quebec. The tobacco firm earned CDN$17.2 million or 51 cents a share, compared with CDN$20.9 million or 62 cents a share, a year ago.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GROUND-LEVEL checks on the thickness of polar ice caps are being staged by the European Space Agency (ESA) to assess environmental monitoring data which will be culled by its oncoming Cryosat satellite mission. ESA has sent scientists to ice sheets in the north of Canada, Greenland and Norway.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE CANADIAN government has hit back at criticism at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) from textile and clothing exporting countries that it (and other importing nations) have dragged their feet over abolishingtion of quotas under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILS of the CDN$402 million handed out to Alberta beef producers following Canada’s isolated BSE outbreak have been released by the prairie province’s government. It said 96 per cent in federal and provincial payments went to beef ranchers (covering 836,000 cattle), with sheep, goat, bison, elk, deer, llama, alpaca, reindeer and caribou producers getting the remainder.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has rebuffed criticism at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) from textile and clothing exporting countries that they deliberately delayed abolishing quotas under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC). In a note to the WTO, mirroring a similar defence by Canada, the super-power rejected claims made by the International Textiles and Clothing Bureau (ITCB), representing exporting countries.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A SMOKING ban has been imposed in all public places, including bars and restaurants in Nunavut and the neighbouring Northwest Territories in northern Canada. The bylaw will force people to smoke outside in freezing temperatures of up to -50 Celsius in the winter.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
HEALTH Canada and anti-smoking groups are questioning Imperial Tobacco Canada’s decision to fund the First Nations Youth At-Risk programme to combat aboriginal youth addiction to drugs, smoking and alcohol. The CDN$1.1 million Imperial grant focuses on activities to boost self-esteem and reduce boredom for youth on Indian reserves.…