Search Results for: Canadian

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
BACTERIA have never had it so good in Canada. Demonized worldwide by environmental health officers, bacteria are being feted and are currently living large in Ontario, being injected into tips to feast on sludge. Professor Elizabeth Edwards, a scientist from the University of Toronto has discovered a way to farm naturally occurring bacteria, introducing them into toxic landfills, where they neutralise tough chlorine-based pollutants.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

THE CHAIRMAN, CEO and founder of Canadian brewer Sleeman has said he will fight to keep his family name in the beer business, after a review of commercial options was ambushed and turned into a takeover battle.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE SALE and distribution of alcohol in the Canadian province of Ontario is to be examined by an independent panel, charged with improving existing practices.

All parties involved in Ontario’s beverage alcohol distribution and retail system, including the government-owned Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), the privately owned Brewers Retail Inc, and the retail stores owned by Ontario wineries will be under scrutiny.…

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
FOR many people, Europeans in particular, Canada represents wide-open spaces, pristine wilderness teaming with wildlife, a high standard of living and a country tolerant of other cultures.

And Canadians are generally a happy bunch, who smugly cherish their social differences with their neighbours south of the border, notably that their high taxes are fair because the money creates social programmes and a national health care system that their American counterparts do not enjoy.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
FOLLOWING a recent official visit to Japan, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin claimed he had convinced the Japanese government to hasten its scientific investigations on his country’s BSE outbreaks, so it swiftly reopens its borders to Canadian beef.…

BY MONICA DOBIE and BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CANADIAN province of Quebec will ban smoking in public places, including bars and restaurants, within a year according to its provincial government. Quebec health minister Philippe Couillard said he would introduce legislation this spring.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has declared Canada officially free of bird flu, six months having passed since the last registered case of the disease. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed that the outbreak had been confined to the Fraser Valley area of British Columbia province.…