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BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S three big tobacco firms, Rothmans Benson & Hedges Inc., JTI-Macdonald Corp. and Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. are involved in a lawsuit in the Quebec Superior Court to challenge the country’s federal Tobacco Act that the companies claim infringes their constitutional right of freedom of expression with regard to the advertising of cigarettes.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A NEW model contract drawn up by the European Commission has been published to try and simplify life for companies engaged in personal data transfers while at the same time safeguarding them from claims under EU data protection legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE US and Canada have struck a deal with Brussels over the opening of a low rate EU import quota for medium and low quality wheat and barley. From January 1, a general Euro 12 per tonne quota of 2.981 million tonnes will be opened for the wheat, with 38,000 tonnes earmarked for Canada and 572,000 tonnes for the US.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHAT could be more straightforward or fairer, you might think, than the European Union’s veterinary and phytosanitary agreements with non-member countries?

The idea is that each party pledges that the food it exports to the other – be it derived from animals or plants – meets the requirements of its own food safety legislation and that this is then taken on trust by the receiving country.…

Keith Nuthall
CANADA’S ice-wine industry has suffered a serious blow because of unseasonably mild winter weather. Most wineries in the Niagara on the Lake region in Ontario will see a decline of 50 per cent or more in their ice-wine grape yields.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S beef export industry is pursuing Asia as a potential market, in order to loosen its dependence on the United States.

Marketing managers are looking to exploit a new niche; western-style steak houses that started becoming popular in Taiwan three years ago, and are now spreading throughout the far east.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S ice-wine industry has suffered a serious blow because of unseasonably mild winter weather. Most wineries in the Niagara on the Lake region in Ontario will see a decline of 50 per cent or more in their ice-wine grape yields.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S booksellers are expecting very profitable sales for Christmas, banking on the general public’s need to reflect and have quieter family time over this particular holiday season.

“Christmas will be good, very good. People are cocooning and books are wonderful to cocoon with,” said Richard King of Paragraph Bookstore in Montreal, one of the city’s larger bookstores.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S plans to make drastic cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, as part of the Kyoto Protocol, is worrying the country’s energy sector, particularly companies in oil-rich Alberta who claim they have been left in the dark by the federal government.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
PETRO-Canada, the country’s third largest oil producer, has proposed to spend up to CAN$5.8 billion on new oil sands projects in northern Alberta. The corporation has applied to regulators to develop its Meadow Creek lease, about 45 kilometres south of Fort McMurray, Alberta, at a cost of $700-million-$800-million.…