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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EMERGING nanotechnologies can best assist developing countries through innovations in energy production, conversion and storage, plus alternative fuels manufacturing, the Canadian Programme on Genomics and Global Health (CPGGH) has said in a report. *http://www.utoronto.ca/jcb/home/documents/PLoS_nanotech.pdf…

BY MARK ROWE
THE YEAR 2007 will be a significant one for Romania. It is the year that the country is scheduled to join the European Union (EU); it is also the year that Romania’s second nuclear power unit is expected to come on line.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
MOLSON Canada has announced it has acquired Ontario microbrewery Creemore Springs Brewery Ltd. Established in 1987, the brewery in Creemore, Ontario, 120 kilometres northwest of Toronto, employs 50 people and produces Creemore Springs premium lager. “Creemore is rounding up Molson’s brand portfolio and will strongly position us in the domestic super-premium segment, becoming an engine for growth…,”

said an ebullient Kevin Boyce, President and CEO, Molson Canada.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ENVIRONMENTALISTS in Canada have set up an Internet service, which allows people to have access to a list of toxic compounds released near their homes and the companies responsible for the pollutants simply by keying in their postal code.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE CANADIAN government is to impose 15% additional duties on American oyster imports, because of Washington’s failure to follow a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling that it should scrap its Byrd Amendment law on protective tariffs. This grants US companies additional compensation for successfully pushing their federal government into erecting anti-dumping or countervailing duties on imports deemed subsidised or cut-priced.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Canada are working towards a deal where they mutually recognise each other’s fish and live bivalve molluscs health production standards. The negotiations – handled by the European Commission for the EU – follow the agreement by both sides of their first ever food heath mutual recognition deal, for pork products and bovine semen.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
WHAT does a paint industry do when its closest neighbour is a huge industrial giant with massive manufacturing capabilities and large product innovation budgets? Unfortunately, when examining the Canadian paint sector, the answer is not one of David and Goliath but rather a more practical and unromantic approach.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN fish and seafood exports continued to be strong in 2004, totalling CDN$4.5 billion with more than 685,000 tonnes exported worldwide, up 8% compared to 2003. The figures were welcomed by junior fisheries minister Shawn Murphy as “evidence of our country’s commitment to providing quality seafood products to an increasing number of international markets”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIE
THE SUPREME Court of Canada has confirmed the right of Canadian provinces to introduce stricter anti-smoking retail rules than within the country’s federal Tobacco Act. This came in an explanation of a January judgement rejecting Rothmans Benson & Hedges’ claim of unconstitutionality about a Saskatchewan ban on ‘power wall’ tobacco product displays.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A US judge has granted a request by an American cattlemen’s group to temporarily halt plans to reopen the border to Canadian cattle, which had been planned for this week. R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America argued that the opening of borders would present risks of BSE from Canada infiltrating US herds.…