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• Pet food case settlement may be upped to $32M
... traced to contaminated wheat gluten imported from China. Hundreds of pet owners sued. In April, lawyers representing more than 200 named plaintiffs and dozens of companies announced they had struck a deal for pet owners in the United States and Canada.
• Canada's leader gambles for majority gov't
TORONTO - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is gambling that an opposition pushing an unpopular carbon tax will steer Canadian voters to the right in Tuesday's election and bolster his hold on power. If the polls are any indication, though, Canada's ...
• 11 baby product companies asked to avoid BPA
The European Union has said BPA-containing products are safe, but Canada's government has proposed banning the sale of baby bottles with BPA as a precaution. BPA is used in lightweight, durable plastics. Products include some baby bottles, sippy cups ...
• Canada government faces suit over killer whales
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Environmentalists are taking the Canadian government to court, demanding it use the country's Species at Risk Act to protect killer whales off British Columbia. Ecojustice, on behalf of eight environmental organizations ...
• Going beyond the Palin
... and added, referring to the Stars and Stripes, “I won’t be buried under their damned flag!” (Sure enough, in 1995, Vogler, after being murdered in connection with an informal transaction involving plastic explosives, was buried in Canada.) Good ...