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BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada
THE GREAT Lakes of Canada and the United States, in particular Lake Erie, suffered the highest levels of pollution in the sixties and seventies, attracting global attention and concern to urgently clean the waters that at their peak pollution levels actually caught fire.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN furriers are expecting international demand for fur garments will drive Canadian exports up 10-15 per cent this year, to more than CAN$350-million according to the country’s National Post newspaper.

Alan Herscovici, executive vice-president of the Fur Council of Canada, said fur does not have the negative connotations it used to.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ONLINE bookseller giant Amazon.com, is stirring things up in the Canadian Internet book market, by announcing it will lower shipping costs for Canadian customers, effectively stiffening up competition for the future Chapters-Indigo combine, the country’s largest book retailer.…

KEITH NUTHALL
CANADA has won a partial victory at the WTO, which may help it resist planned US countervailing duties against its lumber exports. It persuaded a disputes panel that an importing country should not be allowed to treat restrictions on the amount of exports of a particular commodity as an illegal subsidy, even where this lowered its price domestically and helped local manufacturers lower prices.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada
CREDIT card fraudsters in the US and Canada are inserting new kinds of skimming bugs which steal credit and charge card numbers into electronic terminals used by most north American retailers and restaurants.

Cardweb, a Maryland-based payment card information network, has claimed that tiny pieces of hardware are being planted by fraudsters working under-cover in a restaurant or shop.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AFTER Mexican plantation workers walked off tobacco fields in Ontario, Canada, to protest about the deplorable working conditions, the Canadian section of the United Farm Workers of America has called for the establishment national labour standards to protect them.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
CREDIT card fraudsters in the US and Canada are placing new kinds of skimming bugs to steal credit and charge card numbers from terminals used by north American retailers and restaurants.

Cardweb, a Maryland-based payment card information network, has claimed that tiny pieces of hardware are being planted by a fraudster working in a restaurant or shop.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
COCA-COLA Bottling Ltd is being investigated by Canadian tax collectors, which may result in the soft-drinks giant handing over more than $100 million (CND) worth of back taxes, the Toronto Globe and Mail has reported.

It has revealed that Canadian tax investigators are examining how Coca-Cola prices the concentrate it uses to produce the drinks and whether the company charged too much to its bottling operations to keep both its Canadian profits and taxes low.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada
THE ROYAL Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia are investigating the use of concrete tree spikes drilled into trees by environmental extremists to splinter the metal blade of a logger’s chainsaw or break huge saws used in mills, wrecking machinery and sending broken metal and concrete shrapnel in every direction.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN oil and gas industry has seen its largest corporate take-over when Houston-based Conoco Inc. agreed to buyout Gulf Canada Resources for CAN$6.7 billion in cash.

The deal will serve up a large piece of the natural gas pie for Texan giant Conoco in Canada, especially in the relatively untapped Mackenzie Delta gas deposits in the Northwest Territories.…