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BY MONICA DOBIE

A CANADIAN teenager has made a significant discovery on the decomposition of plastic bags as part of a science project.

Daniel Burd, a 17-year-old student at Waterloo Collegiate Institute in Ontario, found that using two types of bacteria Sphingomonas and Pseudomonas, was most effective at breaking down the polyethylene when combined with some sodium acetate and incubating the solution at 37 degrees.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NORTH America’s last regulatory battle between butter and margarine producers will end, with the Canadian province of Québec deciding to lift its ban on yellow margarine. Its strong dairy lobby has long defended a provincial rule preventing margarine resembling butter, instead been sold in unappetising white.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE AUTOPARTS and automotive industries are calling for far tighter world-wide enforcement against counterfeiting, as influential countries meet in Geneva to thrash out more details of a global Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).

First mooted by the Office of the US Trade Representative in October 2007- and pursued aggressively by the US Chamber of Commerce – Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates have since come on board to try to develop ACTA.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MAKING a living in the Canadian Arctic is never easy in commercial terms, given the restrictions imposed by the weather, the distances to populous markets and extremely undeveloped transport: there are no roads to and from the territory of Nunavut.…

By Monica Dobie

Canada’s most northerly territory, Nunavut, will have access to an advanced business management diploma programme operated by the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The Nunavut Advanced Management Diploma (NADM) programme will be offered in Rankin Inlet, a community of 2,358 people that serves as a business and transportation hub for central Nunavut, 85% of whose 29,000 population are aboriginal Inuit.…

BY PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris

"FISHING is much more than fish," said former US president Herbert Hoover. "It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers." This may have been the case in the 1930s and may remain so for weekend anglers, who forget about the week’s stresses sitting quietly by the side of a lake.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ANGLO-Canadian research team has found microbes living in dried oil tar can be provoked into digesting this petroleum well residue, turning it into natural gas. Scientists from England’s University of Newcastle and Canada’s University of Calgary found the microbes could be provoked into a tar feeding frenzy by supplying them with additional nutrients.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CANADIAN parliament has approved a bill that allows its federal government to require a 5% average biofuel content in petrol used in Canada by 2010. It can also require 2% average biofuel content in diesel and heating oil by 2012.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD, in Caracas

LATIN AMERICA has long been notorious for its high levels of corruption, especially through money laundering, bribery and the illicit drug trade. And although the recent years of relative stability and democratisation in the region have brought economic progress, this has also widened the opportunities for fraudulent activities and fuelled an increasing sophistication by which they are performed.…

BY BILL CORCORAN, in Lilongwe, Malawi

A NEW initiative to improve the health, wealth and environment of Africans is being driven by the Kyoto Protocol’s international trades in carbon credits. This allows wealthy developed countries to scale back their emission reductions, if they can invest in slashing greenhouse gas pollution abroad.…