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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Canada are about to embark on detailed negotiations to upgrade their existing long-standing nuclear cooperation agreement. A key aim of the talks, European Commission and Canadian officials told World Nuclear News, was the authorisation of widespread nuclear technology transfers between the EU and Canada, which are currently tightly restricted.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

CANADIAN book publishers have been reporting higher levels of returns than normal this summer from Indigo Books and Music, Canada’s dominant book retailer, and they say the effects have been damaging.

Toronto-based ECW Press publisher Jack David said returns skyrocketed between May and July, although he did not make statistics available.…

By Leah Germain

The threat posed to research teams by some environmental activists was starkly illustrated by a recent potentially dangerous interference with an experiment involving explosives in Canada. A joint Canadian and American research study was nearly derailed last month when a campaigner attempted to prevent a major seismic experiment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CANADIAN province of Québec will push ahead with four strategic environmental assessments of the potential impact of exploratory oil and gas drilling in the the lower St Lawrence estuary and the Gulf of St Lawrence. Seismic testing with explosives have been suspended in these areas since 2004 amidst concerns about its effect on whales.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THERE is much work required by the United States government and the European Union (EU) to disarm trade barriers impeding EU auto exports, a new European Commission report has claimed.

The EU executive highlights three particular grumbles with existing US legislation, it claims gives American (and Canadian) automakers unfair advantages over European rivals.…

BY JAMES BURNS

REDEVELOPING major international airports is always a challenge – especially when they have grown incrementally. Sometimes the best plan is to rip it up and start again, to quote a popular 1980’s pop song. And that is what happened at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport – Canada’s largest hub.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London; RUSSELL BERMAN, in Washington DC; JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo; RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi; BY WANG FANGQING, in Shanghai; EMMA JACKSON, in Ottawa; KARRYN MILLER; and KEITH NUTHALL

THE AUTOMOBILE sector maybe one of the most globally integrated manufacturing industries on the planet, but national governments (or continental bodies in Europe) still hold sway regarding regulation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CORRUPTION begets fraud and fraud begets corruption, and there are few harder crimes to tackle than complex frauds rooted in institutionalised and culturally tolerated corruption. As a result, the work of international organisation Transparency International has been key in fighting fraud worldwide, especially that linked to corruption.…

BY MONICA DOBIE and KEITH NUTHALL

THE CANADIAN government will match the automotive emissions standards being introduced by the USA’s Obama administration. Canada’s environment minister Jim Prentice said: "We will work together to ensure we have a single, dominant north American standard for carbon emissions and fuel economy."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIE

THE SCOTCH Whisky Association (SWA) has announced it plans to appeal a Canadian court ruling allowing a Nova Scotia distillery to call its product ‘Glen Breton’. The SWA is petitioning the Supreme Court of Canada to overturn a the Canadian Court of Appeal decision allowing Glenora Distillers, in Cape Breton, on Canada’s Atlantic coast, to use ‘Glen’ in the name of its single malt whisky.…