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BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN cigarette manufacturer, Rothmans Inc. reported a 30 per cent jump in sales and a 22.5 per cent boost in profits in its latest quarterly results (to December 31 past year). Sales leaped to CDN$170 million from CDN$130.3 million compared with the same period in 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT will be several years before Canada’s trading partners admit Canadian live cattle, according to a report from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The document – written after BSE was detected Alberta, but before its discovery in the United States – suggests that effective diplomacy will be needed to convince countries, rather than more scientific measures.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A RECORD number of cattle remain on farms across Canada because of the bans imposed on the country’s beef exports following last year’s BSE scare. Statistics Canada has reported that 14.7 million head of cattle existed in January 2004, 1.2 million (or 8.7 per cent) more than the same period last year.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE NEW York Times is reporting that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been pressuring its scientific experts to approve meat products not yet deemed safe. An unnamed senior USDA scientist said department researchers had been pressured to approve cattle from Mexico at risk of tuberculosis and, in August, following their BSE scare, boneless meat from Canadian cattle, prior to the conclusion of an in-house study.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SOME prominent authors have been unmasked as writing rave reviews for their own books or for colleagues when Amazon.com Canadian website glitch mistakenly revealed the identities of thousands of people who had anonymously posted book reviews. John Rechy, author of the best-selling 1963 novel “City of Night” and winner of the PEN-USA West lifetime achievement award admitted to the New York Times that he submitted a five star review of his own book.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
APPROVAL for the CDN$8.5 billion Horizon oil sands project in Fort McMurray, Alberta, has been granted to Canadian Natural Resources, by both by Alberta’s energy regulator and Canada’s federal environmental assessment agency. The go ahead came with 17 conditions relating to mining operations, resource conservation and tailings management that must be met by the Calgary-based oil and gas producer.…

BY PHILIP FINE, in Montreal, Canada

Canadian beverage manufacturers have decided to pull soft drinks from school vending machines, according to Refreshments Canada. The trade group announced that next September, water and 100% fruit juices will make up at least half of the beverage selections offered for sale in Canadian elementary and middle schools.…

BY PHILIP FINE, in Montreal, Canada

An extra day in this year’s Christmas week seemed to be the key to helping

Canadian book sales make a strong showing in a season marked by healthy

non-fiction sales. Paul McNally, owner of the four-store prairie chain,

McNally Robinson, says that Christmas falling on a Thursday was the key to

a 35 per cent jump in sales from last year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIE
WOMEN not only suffer more work health and safety problems than men, workplaces are actually designed to fit the average male worker, rather than the average employee – regardless of gender – a European Union (EU) report has claimed.…

BY RICHARD HURST
The former British colony of Sierra Leone has been a focus of a money laundering scandal since the September 11 attacks in the US, when it was uncovered (in the New York Times) that a senior member of the al Qaeda organisation, Ibrahim Bah, had been purchasing and stockpiling diamonds mined by the country’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels.…