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BY MONICA DOBIE
A PUBLIC awareness campaign sponsored by the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC) – a Ottawa government agency – warning savers that mutual funds are not covered by the federal deposit insurance has sparked a row in the Canadian financial services sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The US Department of Agriculture has launched a US $53-million project to map the genetic makeup of cattle in the hope it will promote human health by controlling animal disease.

The multinational Bovine Genome Sequencing Project will be carried out by universities in the US and Canada.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
HIGHJACKERS in Langley, British Columbia stole 10 million Imperial Tobacco cigarettes from trucks bound for retail outlets in the Canadian province, with an estimated value of CDN $3.8 million (US$2.86 million). The theft is the latest in a string criminal events surrounding tobacco.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN AMERICAN company is offering reserved parking spots within five minutes of airports. Airport Parking Reservations, which offers 24-hour service and a shuttle to the terminal, is now operating outside more than 130 airports in the US, UK and Canada.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED States wants to negotiate a deal with Canada that would free up controls on domestic flights in each other’s country. US Ambassador Paul Cellucci has told Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper that Washington wants a liberalised aviation policy that would include American carriers transporting passengers between airports in Canada and Canadian airlines flying between American cities.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN farmers will continue to feed cows’ blood to cattle despite a US assessment that it could spread mad cow disease. Canada’s ministry of agriculture said there is little risk that blood could be infectious and will not prohibit it as feed.…

BY PHILIP FINE, in Montreal, Canada

An extra day in this year’s Christmas week seemed to be the key to helping

Canadian book sales make a strong showing in a season marked by healthy

non-fiction sales. Paul McNally, owner of the four-store prairie chain,

McNally Robinson, says that Christmas falling on a Thursday was the key to

a 35 per cent jump in sales from last year.…

BY PHILIP FINE, in Montreal

CANADA’S food inspection agency is investigating the possible dangers posed by energy bars and weight-loss preparations, as well as the veracity of claims made by their manufacturers. The federal government unit launched the probe after finding many products contain substances with pharmacological activity, excessive levels of vitamins and minerals, undeclared common food allergens and fraudulent claims of health and performance benefits.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN airports are to scale back SARS screening operations and suspend the use of thermal scanners, according to the federal Ministry of Health. The use of temperature scanners will also be gradually phased out over the next three weeks.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE LARGEST museum in the world and – arguably – the grandest of them all, the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg is returning to its roots. In the middle of a long and painstaking modernisation process, the Russian museum is striving, in addition to the urgent physical restoration required to bring the museum into the 21st century, to recapture the ambience of its Imperial origins, when its vast palaces were the residence of the Tsars.…