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Chris Carrier has been hammered with two plant closures in less than a year. First Alcoa shut its wheel-rim plant in June after more than two decades in operation, idling 365 people. Then last month Goodyear Canada did the same at its engine-hose plant, forcing 165 out of work. "It's created a great deal of turmoil," says Carrier, mayor of Collingwood, Ont., a town of 25,000 north of Toronto. "Families aren't sure how they're going to pay bills. Some have moved away." The closures mean not only lost jobs but also a loss...
Both Alcoa and Goodyear had operated well below capacity for a number of years, so it came as no surprise when they announced plans to move production to Venezuela and Mexico, respectively. Unfortunately, Collingwood's tale of economic woe is being repeated in communities across Ontario and Quebec--Canada's industrial heartland. "A high Canadian dollar is an absolute killer," says Peter Nygard, chairman of Nygard International Ltd., a manufacturer of women's clothing in Winnipeg, Man., whose $1 billion in annual revenue comes largely from...
Recent major studies from Australia and Canada have also concluded that miscarriages and induced abortions raise the odds of premature birth and low birth weight - but only modestly. (Those studies were able to distinguish women who had miscarried from women who had intentionally ended their pregnancies.) Many other studies have found no clear link at all. Perhaps that's because different study populations, taken from all over the world, involve different risk factors for premature birth; or it may be simply that the sample sizes in some studies were too small to pick up relatively small differences between women...
...Critics warn that the E.U. could follow Canada, whose fishing industry was ravaged in the early 1990s when Atlantic cod stocks were wiped out as a result of overfishing. If that happens, it would be a sad indictment for Europe, and a triumph of national selfishness over conservation...
...More importantly, with the exception of a confused statement from Japan, not one of the allies that had generally stood with the U.S. the past two weeks - Australia, Russia, Canada - rose in its defense. The near-total isolation of the U.S. on climate change - which had been building since its rejection of the Kyoto Protocol nearly a decade ago - was now obvious, apparently even to the U.S. Dobiansky turned to speak. "We've listened very closely to many of our colleagues here during these two weeks, but especially to what has been said in this hall today," she said...