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BY MJ DESCHAMPS, IN CALGARY

Dr Tarnia Taverner, assistant professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Nursing knows the transition from British to Canadian nursing is not seamless. She came to Canada from England 10-years-ago as a clinical nurse, when her British army officer husband was posted in Alberta.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

STATE-of-the-art fraud detection and prevention tools are being developed worldwide, but while these work overtime to generate fraud alerts and flag suspicious behaviour, investigation and case management is struggling to cope with these new sophisticated technologies.

Douglas Russell, director of UK-based fraud and security risk management consultancy DFR Risk Management Ltd, agreed if there are insufficient skilled personnel to follow up alerts, then the full benefits of these systems cannot be realised: "While appropriate responses will vary depending upon what has been highlighted by the systems, best practice includes not only prioritising…high value/high volume fraud categories but also those incidents which may be considered novel or previously undetected," he said.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

THE CANADIAN government has confirmed that it will not interfere with the Québec government’s plans to close down the province’s asbestos mining industry, declaring the country’s controversial trade to be at an end. Instead, Ottawa plans on supporting international efforts to list asbestos as a hazardous material under a global agreement to warn importers of potential dangers of the product.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN, IN EDMONTON

CANADIAN beef producers have welcomed the resumption of work at the XL Foods Inc. Lakeside plant, which had been closed in September, following an E-coli outbreak. The Brooks, southern Alberta, plant received a new operating licence from Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) last week.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN, IN EDMONTON

THE CANADIAN government and the country’s meat industry have announced a joint action plan to enable hard-pressed pig farmers survive a perfect storm of low prices, high feed costs and trade problems, including the strong Canadian dollar.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS, IN CALGARY

DESPITE an expanded list of recalls announced this week by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), on beef products from Alberta-based XL Foods, the industry does not expect Canada’s largest-ever beef recall damage domestic and foreign consumer demand.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

September 11, 2012

A THREAT by the Parti Québécois (PQ) – the newly elected separatist government of Canada’s Québec province – to withdraw a USD58.8 million loan to the last Canadian asbestos mine has left the mining community feeling marginalised and concerned for the future of the chrysotile operations.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

DESPITE the hype around the growing popularity of electronic books (e-books) in recent years, a new study published today (October 10) has found that the majority of Canadians still prefer their books in print format – at least for now.…

BY DAVID HAYHURST, IN PARIS

THREE years ago, the Group of Twenty (G20) finance ministers and central bank governors stated the organisation’s intention was to "rationalise and phase out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption".…

BY LEAH GERMAIN, IN EDMONTON

CANADA’S federal food inspection agency has released a new set of standards for biosecurity in beef products, which will aim to minimise the spread of endemic and infectious foreign diseases while strengthening the Canada’s beef industry.…