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Keith Nuthall
INTERNATIONAL airports have been at the centre of a Europol-coordinated series of raids that netted 335,000 ecstasy pills. Airports involved included Amsterdam-Schiphol (89,000 pills), Frankfurt/Main (83,000), Zürich (40,000), Madrid (27,000), Brussels (10,000), Paris Charles de Gaulle (26,500), and Miami (59,000).…

BY MONICA DOBIE
JTI-Macdonald Corp., Canada, has proposed that the federal government in Ottawa introduce an additional warning message on cigarette packages which would indicate that reduced tar products are not safer and that the tar levels should be prominent on cigarette packs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has sought to allay fears that it is dragging its feet over the implementation of liberalisation commitments it made when it was admitted into the World Trade Organisation. It has released explanatory notes to the European Union and Canada, who have raised concerns over the opening of textile import quotas.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
WILDLIFE conservationists and beer makers in Canada have combined their efforts to produce a brew called SOS beer where a portion of the sales’ proceeds goes toward species and habitat protection.

A Quebec micro-brewery launched the project two years ago, and has just recently expanded it to neighbouring Ontario; it has designed labels for the bottles depicting endangered species of the two regions.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE SASKATCHEWAN provincial government in Canada has banned the advertising and displaying of tobacco products in retail outlets where people under the age of eighteen are allowed on the premises.

Shopkeepers must hide all tobacco products from patrons by enclosing them in non- transparent cabinets, behind curtains or blinds or selling them from under the counter.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
MOLSON and Labatt, Canada’s two beer giants, have moved to a second stage inm their legal battle over the right to use the “export” name on brands in Ontario.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has been asked to grant an injunction that would restrict Labatt from selling or advertising Oland Export Ale, a brand produced from Oland, which is a Halifax-based subsidiary of Labatt.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE MORE alcohol one consumes, the more money one makes, and vice versa, according to research by a Canadian academic at the University of Calgary.

Dr Chris Auld, an assistant professor of economics, concluded that teetotalers were generally poorer, following research correlating alcohol consumption and income.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SUNOCO, a subsidiary of Suncor Energy Inc. of Calgary, has sold its natural gas and marketing business in central Canada, to a branch of the Mississauga-based, Ontario Energy Savings Corporation. for CAN$66 million.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE SASKATCHEWAN provincial government in Canada has recently passed a restrictive act that prohibits the advertising and displaying of tobacco products in retail outlets where people under the age of eighteen are allowed on the premises.

Shopkeepers are forced to hide cigarettes from patrons by enclosing them in non- transparent cabinets, behind curtains or blinds or selling them from under the counter.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
DORVAL International Airport in Montreal, Canada, is to undergo a CAN$460-million expansion plan in order provide extra passenger capacity. The first stage will see 17 new gates for international use at a cost of CAN$300-million that will be completed by next spring.…