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BY KATE REW
BORED by the Vera and Jack Duckworth’s down the local? If so, head for your computer and pay a virtual visit to a pub of your choice: when you ‘see someone you’d like to get to know,’ as the logo says, then ‘click here and get them a beer’.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
RECENT findings in cod farming lab experiments, performed in Newfoundland, Canada, have provided some encouraging results, rekindling hope that cod aquaculture may soon thrive.

Joel Bell, a marine biologist at Memorial University in St. John’s, the Newfoundland capital, has been performing lab tests on cod since 1995, and most recently, discovered techniques that may help higher numbers of baby cod grow into mature fish.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER governments of the World Trade Organisation are to examine in detail proposals made by the EU, USA, Venezuela and Canada for the dismantling of national bureaucratic barriers that can prevent oil and gas companies from working effectively around the world.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A COLLEGE in Newfoundland, Canada, has discovered that it may be sitting on a bonanza of oil, because of a spill that occurred twenty-five years ago. The oil was discovered during an excavation for foundations for a new medical science building in the College of the North Atlantic, in the provincial capital St John’s.…

BY KATE REW
FOR bar and pub drinkers bored by their regular social company, Belgian beer company Stella Artois and Internet consumer-site beer.com have set up a network of web-cameras, called StellaCam. It is supposedly the world’s first two-way interactive webcam and allows users to drink beer with punters all over the globe through high-speed connections with a video and audio link.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN oil industry has taken the unusual step of launching a campaign to persuade consumers to use less petrol and diesel, because its companies do not want to invest in new refinery capacity that could in future become redundant.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S smokers are losing their right to light up in public places across the country, because of the introduction of a series of smoke-free environment bylaws and bans.

The capital city of Ottawa has recently launched the country’s toughest by-law, prohibiting smoking in restaurants, bars, private clubs and legion halls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SO SWEEPING has been the foot-and-mouth tragedy in the UK, that British farmers might be forgiven for assuming that they have been singled out for retribution by the Almighty, in return for long forgotten sins.

This is far from being the truth, of course.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A DRAFT timetable for the setting up of anti-dumping and countervailing duties by the United States, on softwood lumber from Canada, has been released by the US International Trade Administration. It says that the American Department of Commerce will probably start inquiries on April 23, making a preliminary judgement on anti-dumping by September 10 and countervailing duties by June 27, a final judgement on November 26 and September 10, respectively, with duties being imposed on January 10 next year and this November 1.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A TEST to detect counterfeit Cuban cigars has been developed by scientists at Canada Customs where fakes are smuggled in by the thousands by Canadian tourists travelling to Cuba.

The test detects the unique chemical structure found in tobacco leaves grown and processed in Cuba and are compared to counterfeits that do not have the same chemical signature.…