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BY MONICA DOBIE
A NEW therapy that involves combining two cancer drugs simultaneously has been hailed as a major breakthrough in treating tumours resistant to chemotherapy. Scientists at McGill University, in Montreal, have treated mice suffering from lymphoma with rapamycin, an antibiotic, and a traditional chemotherapy drug called doxorubicin.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
IMPERIAL Tobacco Canada has blamed the latest theft of over CDN$1.7 million worth of cigarettes from a Mississauga warehouse, Ontario, on increased demand for contraband tobacco because of high taxes imposed on cigarettes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) has ruled that elements of Canada’s collective what marketing systems break its rules, taking some shine off Ottawa’s earlier claims of an oncoming victory in the dispute brought by the United States. A WTO disputes settlement panel has now told Canada to reform the Canada Grain Act, Canada Grain Regulations, and the Canada Transportation Act, to comply with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NOBODY likes to be on a blacklist, especially one written by the American government. But every year, the US state department issues a comprehensive rogues gallery of countries involved in the narcotics trade and related criminal problems. One surprising entrant: the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BIRD flu outbreak that has paralysed global poultry markets could spark a related deadly human influenza pandemic, for which preparations must be laid, a World Health Organisation (WHO) summit has concluded. “We have seen how many countries were preparing for terrorism and bioterrorism and we wish to point out that Mother Nature is the biggest bioterrorism of all,” said participant Dr Angus Nicoll, director of England & Wales’ Public Health Laboratory Service’s communicable disease surveillance centre.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’s Molson Inc. has recently a slim 250-millilitre beer can. The company hopes consumers will view the new packaging as “cool” and a “conversation-starter”. Eight of the skinnier cans, containing Molson Canadian, Dry or the new low-carb Ultra brand, are priced the same as a six-pack of standard 355-ml cans.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S largest producer of chrysotile asbestos fibres, LAB Chrysotile, has announced it will indefinitely shut one of its two mines near Thetford Mines, Quebec, this November. The company has blamed the closure of its Black Lake mine, which will result in 450 job losses, on a high Canadian dollar in comparison to the US dollar and tough international competition.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE MANITOBA provincial government in Canada has proposed legislation that would impose a total ban on smoking in all public places and indoor workplaces within province’s jurisdiction. If passed, the Non-Smokers Health Protection Act will come into effect October 1, of this year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
HEALTH officials in British Columbia, Canada, have issued a gruesome alert, warning that remains of several women murdered on Vancouver-area farm may have been fed to its pigs, later slaughtered for pork. Although there was no evidence of “cross-contamination”, officials said there was a possibility, adding the chances of becoming sick from the meat were small.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will spend more than Euro 2.2 million over three years promoting European Union wine. Euro 1.22 million will be shared by the Union interprofessionelle des Vins du Beaujolais and the Deutsches Weininstitut pushing their wines in Japan, Euro 440,000 goes to Portugal’s Commissao de Viticultura a Regiao dos Vinhos Verdes for campaigns in the USA, Canada and Switzerland, and Euro 150,000 to Italy’s Produttori Moscato d’Asti Associati for US sales, for instance.…