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BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN Grand Prix in Montreal is likely to be cancelled in 2004 because of Canada’s upcoming anti-tobacco regulations that will ban the advertising of tobacco brands at sports events. The Canadian government said the law will not be changed to suit the Grand Prix and wants Formula 1 to agree to exceptions from its tobacco sponsorship practice mirroring those in the British and French races.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is building up a case-file of colour photographs showing diseased human organs that will be put at the disposal of EU Member States for display on tobacco packages from next year. Member governments may choose whether or not to use the images and while the UK is not planning to at present, according to a spokeswoman for the Department of Health, “it is looking into the matter.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-GLOBALISATION activists will not like it, but there are signs that September’s World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun might deliver what has eluded political leaders since the WTO’s agricultural liberalisation talks began in 2000: the beginnings of a deal.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN ASSUMPTION has been made by many in the past few months in the international food industry: the unveiling of so many new low-calorie and low-fat alternative food items must have something to do with obesity-related litigation lurking in the US.…

BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH African mining company AngloGold recently announced that it was seeking to divest from some of its Australian gold fields to continue other diversification efforts outside South Africa. AngloGold Australia ‘s general manager, Barrie Parker, said that the company’s current properties in the central Australian Tanami Desert, particularly the Coyote deposit, had been earmarked for sale in to raise money for AngloGold’s recent explorations in Ghana, Mongolia, Canada and South America.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States, Canada and Argentina have requested that a World Trade Organisation disputes panel adjudicate in their diplomatic row with the European Union over its de facto freeze on approving the import of new genetically modified foodstuffs.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN federal government is suing the country’s major tobacco firms for CDN$1.5 billion, alleging they illegally evaded tax by profiting from the sale of contraband cigarettes in the early nineties, while failing to disclose these earnings. A dozen companies have been accused, all of them part the R.J.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
PETRO-CANADA’S problems with its new McKay River steam-assisted oilsands plant in the second quarter of this year cut the facility’s oil production to 5,000 barrels day from 13,000 barrels a day. Problems with oil getting into the recycled water and harming the steam-generators caused an unexpected six-week shutdown, forcing the company to spend CDN $10 million on modifications.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DISPUTE proceedings panel has now been established at the World Trade Organisation to rule on the legality of the European Union’s sugar export subsidies. Australia, Brazil and Thailand allege the handouts break world trade laws. Barbados, Canada, China, Colombia, Jamaica, Mauritius, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago and the US reserved their right to participate.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-GLOBALISATION activists will not like it, but there are clear signs that September’s World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun might deliver what has eluded political leaders since the WTO’s agricultural liberalisation talks began in 2000: the beginnings of a deal.…