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MEXICO WORKERS



BY MONICA DOBIE
AFTER Mexican plantation workers walked off tobacco fields in Ontario, Canada, to protest about the deplorable working conditions, the Canadian section of the United Farm Workers of America has called for the establishment national labour standards to protect them.…

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SMOKING STATISTICS - CANADA



BY MONICA DOBIE
SMOKING RATES in Canada have hit an all time low, according to new figures released by Statistics Canada, the federal government’s statistical agency.

Approximately 24 per cent of Canadians over the age of 15, or roughly six million people, smoked in the year 2000, it claims.…

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CHAPTERS LATEST



BY MONICA DOBIE AND KEITH NUTHALL
A MERGER of the e-commerce operations of Canadian book retailers Chapters Inc. and Indigo Books and Music is to go ahead, before official federal government approval has been secured for the union of the two companies.…

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MOLSON BREWERY



BY MONICA DOBIE
MOLSON Inc. has announced that it will close its Regina, Saskatchewan brewery as part of a cost-cutting scheme, which will save the company $150 million (CND) over a period of three years.

“Our review of our capacity utilisation in our western Canadian brewery network has unfortunately led us to make this difficult decision,” said Daniel J.…

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CANADA CAMPAIGN



BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN oil industry has taken the unusual step of launching a campaign to persuade consumers to use less petrol and diesel, because its companies do not want to invest in new refinery capacity that could in future become redundant.…

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BY MONICA DOBIE
A CANADIAN government advisory group has called for increased numbers of seals to be hunted, to help recovering Atlantic fish stocks, which are estimated to be at 10 per cent of what they were 20 years ago.

The Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (FRCC) said that the seal population has over-expanded and that its numbers must be controlled.…

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INTERNATIONAL FISH HEALTH CODE



BY KATE REW
THE NEW edition of the global code, which sets the standard for imports and exports of healthy fish has just been released. The third version of the International Aquatic Animal Health Code published by Office International des Epizooties (corr), lists the diseases that would stop the import or export of fish, molluscs and crustaceans, under international trade laws.…

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CANADA V US LATEST



BY MONICA DOBIE
A 15 per cent year-on-year jump in Canadian timber exports to the United States has alarmed American wood industry lobbyists, who are accusing the Canadian timber industry of flooding the US market before protective duties of up to US$8 billion per year are imposed, maybe this summer.…

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GEORGE W BUSH



BY MONICA DOBIE
US President George W. Bush has said that he would be happy to cooperate with the Canadian authorities to secure a share of gas reserves in the Northwest Territories, if drilling in an Alaska wildlife refuge is too tricky because of stiff opposition from Congress and environmentalists.…

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HYDRO QUEBEC



BY MIKE FOX
THE CANADIAN energy company Hydro-Quebec has been ordered to pay more than CAN$20 million plus interest to a group of 15 Vermont utilities, to compensate for loss of power during the January 1998 “ice storm”. Quebec Hydro was selling them electricity under a 30 year contract from 1991, but cut off supplies for 66 days after the storm brought down power lines and transmission towers across Quebec, as a result of thick ice building up on all exposed equipment.…

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