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BY ALAN OSBORN
A new Canadian study suggests that people suffering traumatic experiences during childhood or adolescence, such as parents’ divorce or physical abuse, are significantly more likely than others to develop arthritis later in life.

According to the research, published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health, there is a 27 per cent greater chance of such people developing arthritis.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN government has proposed further changes to its tough tobacco labelling rules in an effort to reach more smokers. Health Canada will create more messages, rotated bi-yearly, that will explain the effects of toxic emissions, whilst providing the benefits of quitting to smokers.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CONCERNS that rising Canadian car and property insurance premiums could have been caused by companies abusing dominant positions in particular provinces have been dismissed by a report from the country’s federal Competition Bureau.

Its review was launched in March 2004, after six federal MPs formally complained that insurers were not providing Canadians with reasonable and competitive insurance rates.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S JTI-Macdonald Corp. has filed for bankruptcy protection following a Quebec Superior Court order that the company immediately pay the Quebec provincial government CDN$1.36 billion in taxes owed from alleged smuggling in the 1990’s. Under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA), JTI will not have to hand over money to Quebec’s revenue coffers as long as they remain under protection.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN government has proposed substantial changes to its current tough labelling requirements for tobacco products in an effort to reach more smokers. The new health warnings will include messages with both a health warning and a related benefit associated with quitting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COUNTERVAILING and antidumping duties imposed by the United States on Canadian exports of carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod have been undermined by a strongly critical ruling a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) panel.

US International Trade Commission (ITC) inquiries leading to the tariffs’ imposition in 2002 were challenged by Canada’s Ivaco Inc and Ivaco Rolling Mills Inc.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RISK that American cattle are infected with BSE is high, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded, and without changes to US rendering or feeding practice, “the probability of cattle to be (pre-clinically or clinically) infected with BSE persistently increases”.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A RECENT Ontario government review of its meat processing industry has recommended the Canadian province adopt a powerful new agency to enforce food safety, including using armed guards with the authority to arrest. Judge Roland Haines, the official judicial investigator, said the status quo for inspectors does not go far enough.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A SMALL group of Quebec wine and cider producers is trying to topple the Canadian province’s alcohol monopoly via an obscure 19th century law. The Association des Producteurs de Boissons Alcoolisées du Québec and some private supermarket owners have invoked an 1864 temperance law, petitioning municipalities to call local referendums on whether the monopolistic Societé des Alcools du Québec (SAQ) should sell alcohol in their areas.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN investment firm Gordon Brothers Group has bought Canadian chocolatier Laura Secord from the USA’s Archibald Candy Corp. for CDN$27.6 million. It was the second time Archibald had tried to sell the company.…