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BY MONICA DOBIE
A RECENT USA Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report has found many online pharmacies declaring they are based in Canada, selling cheap drugs under local liberal medicine sales laws, are actually based in the US or outside North America, in Vietnam and the Czech Republic, for instance.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A RECENT USA Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report has found many online pharmacies declaring they are based in Canada, selling cheap drugs under local liberal medicine sales laws, are actually based in the US or outside North America, in Vietnam and the Czech Republic, for instance.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
TWO bar owners in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan will fight recently enacted smoking laws in court, arguing the bans break the country’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Robert Jenkinson, from Manitoba, on trial for letting patrons smoke in his bar, will argue the provincial smoking ban violates the charter’s rules on fairness because it does not apply to local native reserves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THAT criminals abuse the insurance industry is nothing new for a sector routinely screening claims for hints of fraud. However, its managers have proved far less alert to the risk of it being exploited by money launderers and terrorist financers, a new detailed report has claimed.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN beef cattle are being exported across the US border for the first time since the Alberta BSE scare in May 2003. Cattle and bison less than 30 months old and goats and sheep less than 12 months can now cross the border for immediate slaughter and fattening.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
PROFITS for Canada’s Indigo Books & Music Inc. soared to CDN$11.7 million at its April 2 year-end, an increase of 129% or CDN$6.6 million over the previous year’s results. However, the company’s total revenues for the year were CDN$787.5 million, down 2.3% (CDN$18.2 million) from a year earlier.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNIMAGINABLE happened in Canada this past winter. There was no professional ice hockey, the national sport. The entire season was hockey-free due to a lockout by the National Hockey League (NHL) team owners, who tried unsuccessfully to persuade NHL players to agree to terms that would potentially hamper their already fat salaries.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S Sleeman Breweries Ltd will cut costs and raise its prices in the face of a first quarter profit slump from CDN$2.2 million a year ago to CDN$1.6 million for this January-March.

The Ontario-based move comes at a time when the company is trying to stay attractive to consumers during an on-going price war in the province.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A CANADIAN study has suggested the more fast-food restaurants found in a community, the higher the rate of heart disease and death.

The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) research into Ontario data notes a combination of eating junk food and a lifestyle of gluttony, inactivity and fast eating contributes to illness.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN booksellers will soon know promptly which books are the most popular across their national market, with the introduction of a new book sales-tracking system in June. BookNet Canada, a non-profit organisation, will introduce a BNC Sales Data Service collecting sales information from retailers nationwide to produce weekly reports.…