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BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
CANADIAN auto manufacturers have reported record sales numbers for last month, with most companies claiming it had been their best August ever.

A total of 148, 412 vehicles were purchased last month, surpassing the previous record of 138,000 set in August 2000.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
THREE software programmes developed by Australia’s Cooperative Research Centre for Mining Technology and Equipment are enabling mines to make better use of powerful geo-sensing techniques. By providing a cheap and easy way to process and interpret data, the programmes are removing impediments to the use of tools that provide much greater geological certainty.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOVERNMENTS and international organisations have highlighted tobacco smuggling as one of the largest illegal drains on their tax revenues. An international conference has brought law enforcement professionals together with health officials to fight this problem. Keith Nuthall reports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved a paper industry deal which will see Norway’s Norske Skog and Canada’s Abitibi acquire complete control of their subsidiary Pan Asia Paper Company, buying out its third shareholder, South Korea’s Hansol Paper Co Ltd.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE VANCOUVER Airport Authority has won an appeal in the British Columbia Court of Appeal in a case involving local residents seeking compensation for effects of aircraft on a new runway, opened in 1996

Larry Berg, CEO of the Vancouver International Airport Authority, said: “The court has recognised the principle in law that all aspects of vital public works for the community at large are deemed authorised by the government that orders them.”…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a research project examining the benefits and problems of cars using daytime running lights, as is common practice in Canada. It has issued tenders for research teams to bid for a contract to examine how they reduce accidents, including crashes with pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
INDIGO Books & Music Inc. and the Canadian Booksellers Association have gone to the Federal Court of Canada to annul last month’s federal government decision to let Amazon.ca operate in Canada, despite regulations requiring a bookseller to be majority Canadian owned.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WTO disputes panel, formed for the US and New Zealand, has ruled that Canada has failed to comply with an earlier ruling ordering it to reform its collective dairy marketing systems, so that its exporters do not benefit from unfair national subsidies on world markets.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
NATIVE Canadians are reaping the healthiest rewards from oil exploitation on their ancestral lands since the boom years of the early 1980’s, with last year, CDN$296 million being collected by various tribes.

This flow of money is supervised by Indian Oil and Gas Canada, a regulatory body affiliated with the federal Ministry of Indian Affairs.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, and ALAN OSBORN, in London
CANADIAN publishers may have to pay the insolvent General Publishing up front to have their books moved from its warehouse floor, even though many publishers have not received payment from General since last autumn.…