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BY PHILIP FINE, in Montreal

A CANADIAN research team has made progress in trying to make eggs less susceptible to cracks. University of Ottawa Professor Max Hincke claims that his work on the basics of eggshell formation could not only help make this natural packaging more robust, but also reduce diseases, such as salmonella, which can contaminate eggs via cracks.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
HARRY Potter fans have managed to acquire Book 5 from a Quebec, Canada, Walmart store, in St Constant, south of Montreal, nine days before its official launch. Raincoast Books, the Canadian Publisher of the Harry Potter series, said it was probably a result of human error and that it will seek a court-ordered injunction preventing the store or any individuals from releasing any information on book.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
BRITISH Columbia’s attempt to recover billions of dollars in smoking-related healthcare costs from large Canadian tobacco firms has been thrown out by the province’s Supreme Court. Justice Ronald Holmes ruled that legislation underpinning the province’s lawsuit is unconstitutional because it is directed at international companies outside the province’s jurisdiction.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALTHOUGH an investigation by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency did not discover another case of BSE, following the lone outbreak that has devastated Canada’s beef exports, further instances may well follow, a member of the International Committee on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy has warned.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN sales of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix broke retail sales records across the country this weekend. Dominant chain Indigo Chapter reported more than 100,000 copies sold across its 267 outlets on Saturday, June 21, alone.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced the final shape of a wine and spirits trade deal it has struck with Canada. It will lead, notably, to the phasing out in Canada of geographically-linked generic trade names such as Port, Sherry, Chablis and Rhine.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A CANADIAN professor wants to know what makes the gecko stick to surfaces, research that will be used to promote the creation of artificial glues. In a series of experiments, University of Calgary’s Anthony Russell will try to capture the first close-up high-speed video footage of these reptiles’ footfalls, in order to see their unique stick-and-release dry adhesive system in action.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN AMERICAN beef company has turned to Canada to provide a steady supply of organic beef to the EU. The Dakota Beef Company signed an exclusive agreement with the Canadian Organic Livestock Association to try to meet European demands for hormone-free meat.…

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.”…