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BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S Voortman Cookies Ltd, of Ontario, has claimed it will become the first major cookie company to remove trans-fatty acids from its cookies. From March 2004, they will not contain hydrogenated or partly hydrogenated oils that moisten foods and lengthen shelf lives.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Canada are resisting European Union (EU) calls to initiate a World Trade Organisation (WTO) assessment of whether new laws restricting the sale of beef containing hormones has brought the EU into compliance with a WTO ruling on the issue.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BEST place to break the law is where the closest policeman is 100’s of miles away. And where might that criminal utopia be? Siberia, the Sahara, the Amazon? No, it’s the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, on the developed world’s doorstep, where fishing crime is becoming a real problem.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE COST of cigarettes in Ontario and Quebec will dramatically rise because of planned tax hikes to be imposed by Canadian provincial governments. In Ontario, a of carton cigarettes recently increased by CDN$2.50 and will soon go up an additional CDN$7.50 as a new Liberal government seeks to bring the cost of a carton of cigarettes closer to the national average of CDN$70.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THERE is evidence that wild blueberries, native to the USA’s Maine, Atlantic Canada and Quebec, can lower the risks of cardiovascular disease. A University of Maine study is the first using rats to demonstrate a relationship between consumption of whole wild blueberries and calming reactions that can lead to high blood pressure.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AN OVERWHELMING majority of Canadians are displeased with their private motor insurance schemes and believe their provincial governments should step in to regulate the industry, according to a recent public opinion poll.

Of the 1,017 respondents interviewed, 75 per cent said these regional authorities should use their constitutional powers on insurance to impose limits on premium increases, and an equal number say that they should not exceed the inflation rate for people with clean driving records.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALL but one of the commonly used forms of asbestos have been added to a United Nations blacklist, enabling countries to block further imports without being challenged in global tribunals such as the World Trade Organisation. Amosite, actinolite, anthophyllite and tremolite were added to the Rotterdam Convention Prior Informed Consent (PIC) list by an intergovernmental negotiating committee, meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations (UN) has framed a new anti-corruption convention and its established convention against organised crime is now coming into force. Keith Nuthall examines what this will mean for businesses, banks and governments.

THE COMMERCIAL world is often doubtful about the value of international conventions fighting crime, but their texts do at least reflect a global consensus amongst concerned governments.…

BY PHILIP FINE in Montreal

THE CANADIAN government is investigating the production of energy bars, power drinks and weight-loss preparations, inquiring into possible dangers posed by these products pose and the veracity of claims made by manufacturers about them. Many of the products promise to boost energy or shed weight.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE GOVERNMENTS of 34 countries from the Americas will be struggling today (Wed19/11) to come to a draft trade agreement, much of which centres on agricultural subsidies. The Free Trade Area of the Americas meeting being held in Miami has seen two competing camps vying for control.…