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BY MONICA DOBIE
THE GREATER the number of fast food restaurants present in a community, the higher the rate of heart disease and death, according research published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health (ICES).

However, the study notes that illness is not necessarily the result of eating junk food alone but the lifestyle associated with it.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NORTH American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) appeals panel has confirmed that the United States sunset review of countervailing and anti-dumping duties on Canadian corrosion resistant steel exports wrongly concluded that this protection should be re-imposed.

The new panel rejected arguments brought by the US International Trade Commission that aimed to shore up its already dismissed claims that the Canadian industry had excess capacity that it could use in the future to hit “already weakened” American competitors.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE SWEDISH government has granted Canadian and Toronto-based mining company Continental Precious Minerals permission to explore for possible uranium deposits in northern Sweden. The company will investigate bedrock for three years in the province of Jamtland & Lapland, in the country’s far north.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BETTER efforts need to be made to ensure a “culture of safety” exists in nuclear power plants worldwide, a meeting of the parties to the United Nations Convention on Nuclear Safety has concluded. Debating the current problems the idea at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna, the meeting noted “in some instances…safety culture in nuclear power plants should be strengthened as deficiencies were reported in areas of decision-making, even management and internal communications”.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN smokers are quitting at record rates due to smoking bans in public places and intolerance at home, said a recent study. Published in Statistics Canada’s Health Reports, it said between 2001 and 2003, 17% of smokers tried to quit, up from 1994-96’s 10%.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE MORE fast food restaurants there are in a community, the higher the rate of heart disease and death, so says a recent study published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health. However illness is not the result of eating junk food alone but the lifestyle associated with it, it says.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A FORMER American government packing plant veterinarian says the US government is hiding cases of BSE in the United States. During a speech in Edmonton, Canada, Dr Lester Friedlander stated ex-colleagues with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) have told him of cases the department has chosen not to announce.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINANCING has been secured for a new international programme creating 10 alternative dispute resolution tribunals in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Serbia & Montenegro over the next four years. The International Finance Corporation (IFC)-coordinated project will immediately make permanent a pilot tribunal in Bosnia, having been given US$600,000 by the Canadian government; the World Bank agency also intends to firmly establish a Serb arbitration tribunal in the next 12 months.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CANADIAN meat producers have launched a CDN$7 billion class-action suit against Canada’s federal government for negligently allowing BSE to devastate the country’s cattle industry. The lawsuit claims the government’s monitoring system established to prevent BSE from spreading to Canadian herds failed because it lost track of animals it catalogued as being imported from BSE-ridden Britain.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE SWEDISH government has given a Canadian mining company permission to explore for possible uranium deposits in northern Sweden. Toronto-based Continental Precious Minerals will investigate bedrock for three years in the province of Jamtland and Lapland, one of the country’s most northernmost regions; an additional three years for the inquiry could be granted by Sweden if necessary.…