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BY RUSSELL BERMAN

WITH the auto industry in the United States and Europe in the midst of an unprecedented downturn, the international paints and coatings sector has taken a deep hit as well and has been forced to turn to painful strategies in the hopes of riding out the recession.…

By Lorraine Mallinder, in Montréal

As the polar ice cap continues to shrink, the five nations surrounding the Arctic Ocean are hurriedly positioning themselves for what is shaping up to be one of the biggest geopolitical brawls of the coming years.

Beneath the thinning ice lies the tantalising prospect of up to a quarter of the world’s untapped oil and gas reserves and the promise of new shipping routes between East and West. It’s enough to turn the heads of even the most placid nations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and ALAN OSBORN

IN the early 1990s the nuclear power industry faced a bleak outlook. High profile accidents such as in Chernobyl and Three Mile Island in, Pennsylvania, the USA, had raised public concern about the safety of the industry to all time high.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CANADIAN province of British Columbia has become the first north American province to use a six-in-one vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline called Infanrix hexa, which will allow its children to receive 14 vaccine shots by 18 months, instead of the standard 17.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IF the number of notifications received by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) for pre-registering the use of chemicals by businesses making or importing chemicals in Europe is a gauge of success, then the new REACH control system is performing with aplomb.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CONFECTIONERY does not just taste nice – it could calm babies, Canadian scientists have shown. Researchers at Canada’s Hospital for Sick Children, the University of Toronto, Mount Sinai Hospital and York University studied 240 babies and found their pain reactions after injections were significantly less if they were also given some sugar to eat.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IDEALLY, police and other law enforcement officers working against money laundering and terrorist financing will combine the best elements of two different professions: the forensic skills of the conventional police detective and the expert knowledge of an experienced financial practitioner such as you’d find in the larger banks and finance houses.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE PRINCIPLE of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is of course well established amongst energy suppliers: polluting industries, such as coal, would be able to continue to burn fossil fuels, but carbon dioxide, rather than being expelled into the atmosphere, would be harvested in the energy production cycle and securely locked away.…

By Keith Nuthall

A major IT company has teamed up with a Canadian open university to establish a research centre that will create bespoke three dimensional virtual learning environments.

Sun Microsystems of Canada Inc. has announced the creation of a new Immersive Technologies for Education Centre of Excellence at Athabasca University, Canada’s Alberta-based open university.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SCOTCH Whisky Association (SWA) is mulling a fresh appeal against the trademarking of Canadian single malt whisky Glen Breton, after Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal ruled that Nova Scotia-based distillery Glenora could use this brand name. The SWA argues the word ‘Glen’ can mislead consumers into thinking the whisky is from Scotland, rather than Cape Breton, eastern Canada, a region heavily populated by Scots from the Nineteenth Century’s Highland Clearances.…