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BY KEITH NUTHALL

HUMAN nature’s tendency to let sleeping dogs lie means that international initiatives to deal with chronic problems often only come to fruition after a major disaster. And such was the case with the formation of the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA).…

BY ALAN OSBORN and MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

AGAINST the background of a stable or even declining birth-rate, north American baby food companies are turning to organic and other premium foods to maintain and, where possible, to increase market share. The US Food Institute reports that the overall USA baby food and drink market is predicted to remain virtually unchanged between now and 2011 when sales will reach only US$3.6 billion – just US$100 million higher than this year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and BELINDA BLESSED, a virtual reporter, on Second Life

IT was a curious experience – attending a World Bank press conference in an Internet virtual world, watching and listening proceedings through the eyes and ears of a pixellated female digital reporter….…

BY ANDREW SALMON, in Seoul

THE WORDS ‘nuclear’ and ‘Korea’ automatically conjure up images of Kim Jong-il’s underground atomic weapons programs, but south of the heavily militarised border, it is South Korea that has quietly built up one of the world’s most competitive nuclear industries.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

CANADA’S Indigo Books & Music is receiving criticism for taking a role in a controversial Ontario election campaign promise that would see the dominant bookseller supplying books to the province’s school libraries.

Ahead of his reelection this month, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty promised to spend CDN$80-million for books for Ontario school libraries over the next four years, naming Indigo as the projected sole supplier, "at cost".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NEW Zealand has attacked Canada at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) today (Wed26-9) over its introduction of new subsidies for Canadian milk producers, with its diplomats claiming they could "impede its exports" [to Canada]. Wellington’s concern focuses on changes to Canada’s complex ‘special milk classes’ system, where subsidies are paid for domestically-sold milk.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

WASHING hands in soap and warm water is the best method to combat clostridium difficile bacteria claims a recent Canadian study.
McGill University, Montreal, researchers tested separate hand washing systems used in hospitals on hands contaminated with the dangerous bug.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa, and KEITH NUTHALL

IT would almost be hard for Canada not to be one of the seafood industry’s largest global players. After all, surrounded by the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the Great Lakes as well, Canada has the world’s longest coastline (244,000 km).…

BY MONICA DOBIE

WASHING hands in soap and warm water is the best method to combat the clostridium difficile (C.difficile) super-bug claims a recent Canadian study. McGill University, Montreal, researchers tested separate hand washing systems used in hospitals on contaminated hands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN COMMISSION PREPARES FOR MAJOR SHAKE UP OF COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY

THE EUROPEAN Commission is preparing to announce on November 20 major changes to the way the European Union (EU) subsidises European food production through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).…