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BY KEITH NUTHALL
GROWTH in the high technology sector means big profits for those that succeed in the race to market ‘the next big thing,’ but that also means high tech criminals are hot on the trail of consumers and manufacturers unaware that their new gadget is a fraudsters new scamming device, reports Monica Dobie, in Montreal, Canada.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ALBERTA- based Talisman Energy Inc., of Canada, has acquired Lundin Oil AB, of Sweden for CAN$529 million. The deal will bring Talisman exploitable land in Malysia and Lundin’s interests in the North Sea, Malaysia, Vietnam and Papua New Guinea.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada
CANADIANS are drinking more and better beer, according to figures published by Statistics Canada, that indicate sales of imported beers have increased their market share by 25 per cent last year, capturing nine per cent of the total market.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SHIPPING companies working throughout the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence River and its navigation seaways are being forced to carry less cargo because of very low water levels, worse than those recorded in 1999 and 2000, when there was also a water shortage.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GROWTH in the high technology sector means big profits for those that succeed in the race to market ‘the next big thing,’ but that also means high tech criminals are hot on the trail of consumers and manufacturers unaware that their new gadget is a fraudsters new scamming device, reports Monica Dobie, in Montreal, Canada.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE GRAND pipeline project, carrying natural gas from Alaska to mainland USA, will cost between US$15 billion and US$20 billion according to the Alaskan gas producers consortium, which includes ExxonMobil, BP and Phillips.

Spokesman Curtis Thayer told Canada’s National Post the figure includes the cost of a high volume pipeline from Edmonton to Chicago.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PRICE of exported Canadian milk and butter could rise after a World Trade Organisation appellate body ruled that the organisation of a dairy market where produce is collected and sold at a higher price on the home market than abroad, can break WTO rules.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
DEPARTING senior executives from Chapters Inc. collected hefty sums as part of their “golden handshakes” when Indigo Books & Music took over the company in the spring, according to the company’s report for its annual meeting with shareholders.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE PARENTS of a 19-year old university student who was crushed to death by a Coca-Cola vending machine have filed a CAN$1-million lawsuit in a court in Quebec, accusing the soft drink giant and the vending machine manufacturer of “gross carelessness.”…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE KYOTO protocol on climate change was adopted by 186 nations in Bonn, but without the participation of the US, which is responsible for 25 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.

President Bush is now likely to come under intense international pressure to produce an American plan to tackle climate change.…