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BY MONICA DOBIE
ALL 187 Member States of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) have endorsed a global programme to strengthen commercial aviation security on a global scale, primarily through a mandatory audit of national services at a two day High-Level, Ministerial Conference held at ICAO Headquarters in Montreal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FUTURE phytosanitary agreements between the EU and third countries should focus on “a limited number of products of undoubted importance to the parties,” said the European Commission following the emergence of a number of “practical problems” in existing deals.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S dominant bookseller, Indigo Books and Music Inc. has seen its profits double in the Christmas shopping quarter ending December 29, compared to year earlier. The retailer reported net earnings of CAN$18.8 million compared to a profit of CAN$9 million the previous year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE NEW 2003 Cadillac models will be featured in Canada’s biggest ever multi media advertising campaign; it will run from now until October, with a particular focus on the Cadillac CTS and a smaller version of the brand targeted at a younger market.…

BY PHILIP FINE

GUINNESS UDV is facing federal regulatory scrutiny in the United States after a competitor complained that its Smirnoff Ice TM malt based product misleads consumers, because in the US, it does not contain vodka; the New York State advertising industry’s self-regulatory apparatus has now referred the matter to the US Federal Trade Commission and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms after Guinness refused to take part in the review.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS in Alberta, Canada, have discovered a novel and potentially revolutionary way to simultaneously sanitise two environmental hazards common to all oil producing regions that are also home to extensive beef industries: hydrocarbon contaminated earth and cattle dung.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS in Alberta, Canada, have discovered a way to simultaneously sanitise two environmental hazards common to all oil producing regions that are also home to extensive beef industries: cattle excrement and hydrocarbon contaminated earth.

By mixing the two pollutants together they cancelled each other out.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
SCI-FI flicks, the likes of Terminator II and Total Recall, feature futuresque scanning of objects and people to verify if they were porting any dangerous weapons or were lying about what they carrying in suspicious bags; now, this kind of portable and instant inspection has made it from the big screen to current security technology used daily in customs screenings.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
MITSUBISHI Motor Sales of Canada has announced it will move its operations into Canada in September, six months ahead of scheduled date. Greg O’Neill, executive vice president and general manager of Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America Inc.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation has released a report detailing how employment in the global oil and gas sectors has “shrunk dramatically” over the past 25 years. Citing “changing corporate structures and privatisation” as key reasons for the change, the Geneva based UN agency says that in the US alone, worker numbers slumped from a peak of 1.65 million workers in 1982 to roughly 640,000 by 2000.…