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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched formal World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes proceedings with Canada over a discriminatory tax break for Canadian wine and beer producers. Under Canada’s 2006 budget proposals, excise duties on Canadian wine made from 100% Canadian-grown agricultural products and domestic beer would either be reduced or abolished, while excise tax remains on imported wine and beer.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

AN AUDITOR-general report has criticised the Societé des Alcools du Québec (SAQ) one of Canada’s provincial liquor monopolies for illegally raising wine prices by almost 10% last year. A decrease in the value of the Euro against the Canadian dollar should have meant price cuts for consumers, but instead they paid CDN$8 million over a set pricing system, with the extra money going to provincial government coffers.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

THE CANADIAN Museum of Nature has reopened its key west wing having reached the halfway mark of an extensive and costly renovation project, scheduled to finish in 2010. The now completed wing underwent comprehensive renovations, including the building of new fossil and mammal galleries and a temporary exhibition space.…

BY MARK ROWE

OFFICIALS in the central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan have called for urgent action to tackle the country’s uranium dumps, a legacy of the country’s role in the nuclear industry of the former Soviet Union. Their call has highlighted increasing concerns about how depleted uranium is stored, at a time when the United Kingdom and other governments look set to press ahead with a new generation of nuclear power stations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CANADA, in alliance with Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, has successfully scuppered plans to place chrysotile asbestos on the ‘watch list’ of the United Nations’ Rotterdam Convention, a move that would have allowed importing countries to insist on prior consent before admitting any cargoes of this mineral.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

IN 2005, Canadians bought more wine than spirits for the first time according to a new Statistics Canada report.

National wines sales reached CDN$4.2-billion compared with CDN$4-billion sold in spirits in 2004/2005.

Beer sales are top: CDN$8.4-billion in sales last year.…

BY KEITH NOYAHR, in Colombo

THE RESUMPTION of war in Sri Lanka is bad news. Period. But, ironically, there have been some benefits. One of these is a concentrating of the mind amongst law enforcement officials within Sri Lanka and their counterparts abroad into tracking down and stopping both terrorist financing and money laundering.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

THE BRITISH Columbia Court of Appeal has ruled that the Canadian province can pursue legal action to recover health-care costs linked to smoking related diseases from 15 foreign tobacco companies. The firms, covering most the world’s biggest cigarette producers, argued that the province had no legal standing, because there was no provincial legislation on the issue.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Balderson, Ontario

STRONG family links and a dislike of European Union bureaucracy was what brought David James, 62, to Canada to start over again. In 1998, the James family, including wife Ann, 61, daughter Debra, 39, and son-in law Rob, 39, packed up their belongings and moved to a small farming community called Balderson, roughly 50 miles from Canada’s capital, Ottawa.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, in Ottawa

CANADIAN brewer Sleeman is planning an export drive after its takeover by Japan’s Sapporo, the company’s chairman John Sleeman told just-drinks.com. Mr Sleeman, who will stay on as CEO after the deal is approved by shareholders, said: "I am delighted with this agreement.…