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BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WHILE the failed takeover bid for Saskatchewan’s Potash Corporation by BHP Billiton would have provided many long-term benefits to the Canadian province, a senior think tank in the country has this week suggested the federal government blocked the deal over concerns over short-term tax revenue losses.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

CANADA presents an almost unique challenge for providing nursing services. The second largest country in the world, with a population of just around 33 million, it has a population density of only 3.3 people per square kilometre. Given most Canadians live in southern urban centres close to the US border, expansive swaths of land are virtually unsettled and isolated from modern amenities.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

THE CONSORTIUM of international investors looking to re-start production at one of Canada’s last remaining asbestos mines has finally come through with firm offers of financing and letters of intent; meeting the Québec government’s latest funding extension deadline of October 1.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

A COOPERATIVE of 450 current and former workers at the Jeffrey Mine, Québec, Canada, voted Monday to approve an offer made by an international consortium of financiers and construction material manufacturers to invest in expanding its underground asbestos mining operations.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

Just days after the Canadian government added Bisphenol A (BPA) to its national list of toxic substances, it has now proposed new risk management regulations that would control the chemical’s use in industrial processes and products, such as plastic drink packaging.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

THE CANADIAN government has added plastics drinks packaging additive Bisphenol A (BPA) to its national list of toxic substances, claiming this is the toughest action taken against the chemical internationally.

Despite protests from China and a positive recent health assessment from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Canada’s health and environment ministers have added BPA to its list of toxic substances under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA).…

BY MARK GODFREY

THE CEO of a Canadian mining company in litigation with the Mongolian authorities over the alleged expropriation of uranium rights has told World Nuclear News: "Uranium exploration and development in Mongolia is going nowhere at the moment." CEO of Toronto-based Khan Resources Grant Edey argued Mongolia’s Nuclear Energy Law, passed in 2009, is a "disincentive to invest and our experience has raised the question of tenure of assets with all other players."…

BY EMMA JACKSON

MORE than a year after Canada announced new volatile organic compound (VOC) regulations for architectural coatings, the industry is settling into its new obligations, which formally came into force on September 9.

The regulations, part of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) and called the Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Concentration Limits for Architectural Coatings Regulations, set mandatory VOC limits for 53 categories of architectural coatings (including indoor coatings), covering all infrastructure coatings including traffic markings.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank is investing Canadian dollars CAD 7.3 million (US dollars USD 7 million) in Vancouver-based Argentex Mining Corporation to support polymetallic mineral exploration in Argentina.

Argentex’s Pinguino project in the southern province of Santa Cruz, in Patagonia, has uncovered sulphide-rich polymetallic deposits veins.…

BY WANG FANGQING

CHINA’S leading brewer Tsingtao has launched a premium beer – Yi Pin, telling just-drinks that it will be trialled in China’s domestic market. "It will be only available in high-end restaurants," said a Qingdao-based spokesperson, targeting urban elites.…