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BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN aboriginal groups and other oil companies are imminent in striking a deal with other oil firms on the CDN$4 billion Mackenzie Delta pipeline project according to the federal Minister of Indian Affairs Robert Nault. “I believe we are within days of arriving at an agreement between the Aboriginal Pipeline Group and the producers,” he said, speaking before the Petroleum Review went to press.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
CANADIAN wine producers have welcomed a draft agreement on a wide-ranging wine and spirits industry deal with the EU, believing that once formally signed, it will put Canadian wines “on the world stage.” EU agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler said earlier this month (April) that for the EU the deal “presented certain advantages, (particularly) the ending by Canada of the use of certain names, the protection of geographical names, a positive list of oenological practices and a list of prohibited practices.”…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN tobacco growers are fuming over Rothmans Benson and Hedges’ decision not to purchase tobacco from local growers in Quebec.

Growers from L’Office des Producteurs de Tabac Jaune du Quebec demonstrated in front of a Montreal Rothmans B&H factory in March after receiving notice that tobacco firm – that buys 15 per cent of its tobacco from Quebec – will no longer be a customer.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE BRITISH Columbia Salmon Farmers Association has scrambled to head off a local boycott by the Canadian province’s restaurateurs on using farmed salmon, in place, say several Vancouver restaurants, because of customer fears about the health safety of the product.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEVELOPED countries have agreed to enter into formal talks with developing countries, if poorer food exporting states encounter problems complying with any new food health restrictions imposed by richer importing trading partners. The commitment was framed in a Canadian proposal to the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) sanitary and phytosanitary measures committee under the ongoing Doha development round talks.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN AREA of northern Bolivia is to be the focus of an innovative Canadian aid mission designed to offer advice on preventing landslides in communities pock-marked with small mines, notably those for gold prospecting.

Canada will fund a team of scientists to help the community of Chima, a remote gold-mining village that was hit by a deadly landslide last month; the specialists want to ensure that they do not suffer from a repeat the tragedy and to help such communities better deal with such disasters, if they do occur.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THREE potentially expensive class-action lawsuits have been filed against large US grocery chains, Kroger, Safeway and Albertsons over the colour of their salmon. The lawsuits, filed in King County Superior Court in Seattle, Washington state, on behalf of shoppers seeks a court order requiring the chains to inform shoppers that the farmed salmon they sell has been dyed pink.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has laid criminal charges against Toronto-based JTI-Macdonald Corp., and eight of the firm’s current and former executives, alleging fraud and conspiracy involved in knowingly selling cigarettes to smugglers in the early 1990’s. “Our preliminary assessment of the RCMP’s charges strongly suggests that they are based on false evidence offered by convicted felons, encouraged by government-sponsored anti-tobacco activists,” said Guy Cote, JTI spokesman.…

BY PHILIP FINE and KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States is calling for countries to offer up more information on their legal pharmaceutical and bulk chemical industries so as to better catch those who are using them for illegal purposes.

In its comprehensive annual report on worldwide drugs activities, the US State Department places some of the blame for many legal chemicals ending up in the hands of illicit drug manufacturers, on government political structures.…

BY RICHARD HURST
THE WORLD Bank and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) have agreed to fund a US$55.77 million environmental management programme in Zambia’s copper mining region; the decision should tackle concerns that the bank – which has long been suggesting the programme – has been dragging its feet over releasing funding.…