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BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN tobacco industry is poised on the brink of major change, with the country’s manufacturers considering comprehensive leaf import programmes that could undermine the sustainability of the country’s domestic growing sector.

This change is being lead by the country’s largest cigarette manufacturer, Imperial Tobacco Canada, which outlined a proposal in the spring of 2004 that would alter the current two-tiered pricing system for domestic and exported tobacco leaf in the 2005/2006 season.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE GOVERNMENT OF Newfoundland & Labrador has announced that the Canadian province will impose a smoking ban in all indoor public places and workplaces, including bars and bingo halls. The law should come into force as early as spring of 2005, following province-wide consultations set to begin in January.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S Liberal federal government has proposed a marine conservation bill that would increase fines to CDN$1 million for ship owners discharging oily waste into Canadian waters and grant coastguard officials more power to redirect and detain ships suspected of such illegal pollution.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NORTH American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) disputes panel is to consider the legality of USA plans to impose countervailing duties on Canadian exports of pure and alloy magnesium. The request was made by Canada’s Magnola Metallurgy Inc, owned by the country’s metal giant Noranda Minerals Inc.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States International Trade Commission (ITC) has been sharply criticised by a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) panel ruling on a sunset review of countervailing and anti-dumping duties on Canadian corrosion resistant steel exports. Washington’s conclusion that this American steel sub-sector required continued protection because it was in a “weakened state” considering its profits, “is unsupported by substantial evidence and not in accordance with law”, said the panel.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN beer discounter Lakeport Brewing Corp. has announced plans to further cut the price of its beer to the lowest price allowed under Ontario law; a move that has intensified the ongoing price war in country’s largest beer market.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
HONEYBEE populations living near natural gas wells may be at risk according to a Canadian study that linked their hydrogen sulphide emissions to abnormal behaviour in bees. University of Calgary researchers claim that Alberta bees cannot find their hives, are bypassing nectar-filled feeding grounds, producing less honey and surviving the winter in fewer numbers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AMERICAN anti-dumping duties imposed on Canadian exports to the USA of pure magnesium are under threat, after a senior North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) panel ruled against Washington in a long running dispute proceeding. NAFTA’s extraordinary challenge committee (ECC) dismissed an appeal against an earlier NAFTA judgment that the US Department of Commerce had acted “arbitrarily” and “contrary to the law” by excluding certain evidence in a sunset review of the duties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SMOKING is just one of five health factors that are relevant in 80% of heart attack cases, according to a Canadian-coordinated global study published in Britain’s The Lancet. The other four are high cholesterol, hypertension, obesity and diabetes, concluded the researchers who checked 15,000 medical records in 52 countries spanning all continents.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN government has announced a ban on labels that promote the sale of foods that are low in carbohydrates. When the rules take effect in December 2005, carbohydrate content must be listed on the nutrition table of all food and beverages packaging, but other low carb related claims will be forbidden.…