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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States International Trade Commission has been told by a North America Free Trade Area (NAFTA) panel to review a decision to renew a countervailing duty on Canadian exports to the USA of alloy magnesium. The panel ruled the commission "has not provided a reasoned explanation based on all of the evidence" that scrapping duties would lead to Québec producer Magnola unfairly underselling and harming the health of American producers.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and MONICA DOBIE

It’s been a pretty satisfying Christmas season for Canadian booksellers even if there wasn’t a "must-have" book on everybody’s shopping list. "The more predictable nature of the sales period meant booksellers could buy judiciously, leaving them with fewer returns and a wider breadth of overall title sales," says Susan Dayus, execuritve director of the Canadian Booksellers Association.…

BY MONICA DOBIE and KEITH NUTHALL

TIME was when Canadians focused a significant proportion of their habitual condescension towards their American neighbours through beer. US brands were dismissed as weak in alcohol, tasteless and generic. But today, even though the big US beer labels taste the same as they ever did – much to the relief of many consumers around the world, of course – Canadian beer tastes are changing, especially among the young.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

PATIENTS in need of an organ transplant may stand a better chance of receiving a new heart, kidney or liver in good time because of a substance found in a tiny hopping bug. Canadian scientists from the Department of Biochemistry at Queens University, in Kingston, Ontario, discovered an antifreeze protein in snow fleas that may increase the shelf life of human organs for transplantation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A NEW genetic test that can detect devastating clam disease QPX has been developed by American scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), in Cape Cod Massachusetts. They claim the test is sensitive enough to detect the QPX organism not only in clams, but also in seawater and sediment.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A NEW genetic test that can detect devastating clam disease QPX has been developed by American scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), in Cape Cod Massachusetts. They claim the test is sensitive enough to detect the QPX organism not only in clams, but also in seawater and sediment.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

THE CANADIAN government has followed in the footsteps of the European Union (EU) by banning the use of lead acetate in progressive hair dyes namely, Grecian Formula 16 (Canadian sister of the fabled Grecian 2000 Cream in the UK).…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN federal government will appeal against the Quebec Court of Appeal’s decision to allow tobacco companies to use their corporate names for sponsoring sports or artistic events, rather than their brands.

“What we find surprising is the fact that the federal government has indicated that they are taking this fight to the (Canadian) Supreme Court because we are allowed a limited amount of print advertising, when this is exactly what they told the courts to begin with,” said Imperial Tobacco Canada spokesperson, Christina Dona.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ROLE of the Caribbean as a staging point for ill-gotten gains goes back to the trans-Atlantic misadventures of the first European ships over 400 years ago. It would appear some habits die hard. Wesley Gibbings reports from Port of Spain, Trinidad.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ON July 31 this year the European Union’s (EU) Tobacco Advertising Directive came into effect, making it illegal to advertise tobacco products in the print media, radio and over the Internet within the EU. Also banned was tobacco sponsorship of cross-border cultural and sporting events.…