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BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITHOUT uranium mining we would not have nuclear energy, and with the industry experiencing a renaissance because of global warming, demand and prices for uranium is only likely to increase in the medium term. But of course uranium is not the most stable of substances, and digging it out of the ground is never going to be overwhelming popular amongst communities near mine sites.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, JULIAN RYALL, and PHILIPPA JONES

COMPARED to their counterparts in Europe and Asia, North American men are at the bottom of the league tables for using beauty products, leaving male cosmetics marketers with both a lot of work, and a lot opportunity.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CANADIAN researchers have found that chocolate lays unbought for months in retailers across Canada. Brock University and Carleton University (both in Ontario) researchers checked 3,206 chocolate bars from eight major retailers in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver. They found on average they sat on shelves for four-and-a-half months, with on average 3% being past their sell-by-date.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CANADIAN winery owners in British Columbia have been warned by provincial alcohol monopolies in Ontario and Manitoba to stop direct sales to their residents, citing a law from the prohibition era.

To date, the Mission Hill Family Estate Winery and the Red Rooster winery have been officially informed that they are breaking the Importation of Intoxicating Liquors Act of 1928 that faces up to a year in prison after a second offence.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

CONSUMERS are getting fatter and more fitness conscious at the same time, prompting confectionery manufacturers to think hard about squaring the circle of health and indulgence when designing and marketing their products.

CAOBISCO, which represents the European Union’s (EU) chocolate, biscuit and confectionery industries, has traditionally taken a robust line about the benefits confectionery can bring to diets, signing up to the EU’s self-regulating plan for curbing obesity, announced last year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PHILIP Morris International is to acquire 100% ownership of Canada’s Rothmans, Benson & Hedges (RBH) from its parent Rothmans Inc. Philip Morris already owned 40% of RBH, and is now acquiring the rest of the shares for CDN$30 per share, in a deal worth around CDN$2 billion.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IMPERIAL Tobacco Canada and Rothmans, Benson & Hedges (RBH) have agreed to pay together more than CDN$1 billion in a settlement with the Canadian federal government and provinces over smuggling in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The payout will end a long-running Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation into allegations that tobacco products made by both companies had been exported to the USA and then illicitly re-exported to Canada, avoiding the payment of duty.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded that a chemical widely used in food packaging – chemical bisphenol A (BPA) is safe. This important monomer in the production of polycarbonate has been identified as a potentially dangerous pollutant by US and Canadian health authorities, causing birth defects and damaging the prostate and mammary glands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

Key wild species in the sea waters of the Canadian Arctic are Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossides); pink shrimp (Pandalus borealis); striped shrimp (Pandalus montagui); and for fresh water catches, Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus).

Greenland halibut (also called Greenland turbot) has dense, white flesh and a sweet, rich flavour.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CONCERNS that Norway may reactivate claims over the Sverdrup Islands west of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada, have surfaced in the Canadian national press. Geological studies have shown the islands to have potential oil and gas reserves. Norway once claimed sovereignty because of a 1900 expedition.…