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Washington — Mandatory limits on all U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases would not significantly affect average economic growth rates across the country through 2025, the government said. That finding by the Energy Information Administration, an independent arm of the Energy Department, runs counter to President George W. Bush's repeated pronouncements that limits on carbon dioxide and other gases that warm the atmosphere like a greenhouse would seriously harm the U.S. economy. Mr. Bush has proposed ways of slowing the growth rate in U.S.-produced greenhouse gases and methods to reduce emissions of methane internationally. But he rejected...

OTTAWA — The Conservatives are edging toward a majority as anger with the Liberals become more firmly entrenched and Stephen Harper begins to earn the trust of Canadians, even in wary Ontario, a new poll suggests. An Ipsos-Reid survey conducted for The Globe and Mail and CTV between Tuesday and Thursday of this week — as damning testimony from the Gomery inquiry into the sponsorship scandal made headlines and election speculation heated to a boil — put the Conservatives at levels of support they have not seen since the election of 1988, when they swept the country. The Tories' popularity...

Reproductive Riddle Unscrambled A pair of fossilized eggs found inside pelvis of dinosaur supports a link with birds Friday, April 15, 2005 Updated at 8:30 AM EST From Friday's Globe and Mail Calgary — Scientists have for the first time discovered fossilized eggs inside the body of a dinosaur, which provides concrete clues about ancient reproduction and supports the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs, according to research published today. The pair of hard-shelled eggs about the size of large, long yams were found inside the pelvis of a female oviraptorid, a meat-eating bipedal dinosaur that lived about 80 million...

$10-billion Kyoto plan tabled in Parliament Wednesday, April 13, 2005 Updated at 4:37 PM EST Canadian Press and Globe and Mail Update The Liberal government finally revealed Wednesday its plan to meet Kyoto targets -- spending approximately $10-billion over the next seven years. The plan requires annual reductions of 270 million tonnes a year within the next seven years, as reported by The Globe and Mail last month. However, it does not specify how much of that will be obtained by cutting actual pollution and how much by purchasing emissions credits from poor countries. The plan calls on large emitters...

Membraneless Fuel Cell Is Tiny, Versatile CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A fuel cell designed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign can operate without a solid membrane separating fuel and oxidant, and functions with alkaline chemistry in addition to the more common acidic chemistry. Like a battery, a fuel cell changes chemical energy into electrical energy. While most fuel cells employ a physical barrier to separate the fuel and oxidant, the microfluidic fuel cell developed at Illinois utilizes multi-stream laminar flow to accomplish the same task. “The system uses a Y-shaped microfluidic channel in which two liquid streams containing...

Explosions In Space May Have Initiated Ancient Extinction On Earth Scientists at NASA and the University of Kansas say that a mass extinction on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago could have been triggered by a star explosion called a gamma-ray burst. The scientists do not have direct evidence that such a burst activated the ancient extinction. The strength of their work is their atmospheric modeling -- essentially a "what if" scenario. The scientists calculated that gamma-ray radiation from a relatively nearby star explosion, hitting the Earth for only ten seconds, could deplete up to half of the atmosphere's...

Top court spurns Wal-Mart bid Thursday, April 7, 2005 Updated at 11:18 AM EST Canadian Press Ottawa — A Saskatchewan Wal-Mart store where workers are trying to unionize won't be allowed to challenge union efforts to get hold of internal company documents. The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday rejected the Weyburn store's application to appeal an order to hand over the papers to the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1400. The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal last November overturned a lower court ruling and ordered Wal-Mart to turn over to the union company documents, including one called Wal-Mart —...

On-line journal provokes a firestorm By JANE TABER Tuesday, April 5, 2005 Page A1 SENIOR POLITICAL WRITER OTTAWA -- An unassuming 42-year-old call-centre manager and Star Trek fan from Minneapolis, Minn., has provoked a political firestorm in Canada. Ed Morrissey -- Captain Ed to his friends -- published on the weekend what no Canadian is allowed to print or broadcast. On his Internet blog, he posted testimony before the Gomery commission that is subject to a publication ban. Yesterday, after the story of his blogging exploits broke in the Canadian media, Mr. Morrissey saw the traffic on his website increase...

Ottawa's Kyoto plan under fire on all sides By BILL CURRY Tuesday, March 29, 2005 Updated at 2:25 AM EST From Tuesday's Globe and Mail OTTAWA - Canada's major environmental groups have turned against the federal government over a controversial Kyoto budget measure, increasing the pressure on the Liberals to back down and avoid a showdown with the Conservatives that could lead to a spring election. The NDP and Bloc Québécois have already pledged to vote against the budget bill. Last week, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper also vowed to vote against it unless the environmental provision is removed. Yesterday, eight...

The NCAA has asked the University of North Carolina (search) at Pembroke to stop calling its sports teams the "Braves,“ saying the nickname is racially offensive to Native Americans. But it turns out the university was founded exclusively for American Indians, who called themselves the Braves.

Brussels — The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that two vegetarian activists convicted of defaming fast-food giant McDonald's did not receive a fair trial in Britain. The Strasbourg, France-based court ruled that David Morris and Helen Steel should have received legal aid from the British government. It awarded Mr. Morris €15,000 (about $32,000 Canadian) and Ms. Steel €20,000 ($24,000). Mr. Morris and Ms. Steel were found guilty of libelling McDonald's in 1997 and were ordered to pay damages of £60,000 for handing out leaflets attacking the company's working practices and policies. The much-publicized trial, widely known as the...

OTTAWA -- MPs' e-mail boxes are flooded, ad campaigns are ramping up, churches are becoming more vocal and both sides are staking out what they see as the high moral ground in the next showdown of the same-sex marriage debate. "If they [the politicians] think they're getting a lot of e-mails and letters now, it's nothing compared to what it's going to be over the month of February and however long it takes until there's a final vote," said Derek Roguski, vice-president of family policy for Focus on the Family Canada, a group trying to reserve marriage as a right...

The One-Tonne Challenge asks you to reduce your annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by one tonne. How? Use less energy. Conserve water and resources. Reduce waste. Fewer emissions means protecting our climate and having cleaner air and healthier communities for all Canadians. And saving energy puts more money in your pocket. Find out about the Challenge http://www.climatechange.gc.ca/onetonne/english/about.asp Join now! http://www.climatechange.gc.ca/onetonne/english/pledge.asp

Environmental groups accused the federal government Tuesday of letting industry “off the hook” on its Kyoto targets while encouraging citizens to cut their energy use. Six of the nation's leading environmental lobby groups have sent a letter to Prime Minister Paul Martin, insisting that industry produces half the country's greenhouse gas emissions and must in turn play a leading role in reductions. “There's no room for letting large industrial emitters off the hook,” the Sierra Club's John Bennett told an Ottawa news conference. “... At a time when we have a national television campaign going on across Canada – urging...

Canada will be champion of Kyoto, Dion vows Firm date for signing of the protocol spurs minister to focus on climate change By ALANNA MITCHELL From Friday's Globe and Mail Now that the world has a formal date for the Kyoto Protocol to come into force -- Feb. 16, 2005 -- Canada's Environment Minister is determined that this country will be a leader in the effort to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. "A priority for me is to be sure that Canada will be a champion," Stéphane Dion said in an interview yesterday, adding that tackling global climate change is "the top...

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Web pharmacies fear net tightening By STEVEN CHASE Globe and Mail Update E-mail this Article Print this Article Advertisement OTTAWA — Canada's Internet pharmacies warn that they face devastation if Ottawa forces doctors to stop approving mail-order prescriptions for U.S. patients without examining them personally.''It could be very detrimental, if not deadly, for our industry,'' said David MacKay, executive director of the Canadian International Pharmacy Association, whose members do the bulk of cross-border business in this market. He estimated that 95 per cent of the Canadian industry's business is mail-order sales to U.S.-based customers. "Job losses would be 5,000-plus, not...

NDP wants trans fats banned By ALLISON DUNFIELD Globe and Mail Update E-mail this Article Print this Article Advertisement Everyone is aware of the dangers of transfatty acids by now, NDP Leader Jack Layton said Friday, which is why they should be banned in Canada. The New Democrats will use their opposition day motion on Nov. 18 to ask Parliament to vote on a motion to eliminate processed trans fats from Canadian food products. Mr. Layton said Friday at a press conference that the move is something that all Canadians concerned about their health would support. "Families want protection from...

Brussels — The European Union's head office said it filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization on Monday against the United States and Canada for not lifting sanctions against the EU over its ban on imports of hormone-treated beef. "There is no reason why European companies should continue to be targeted by sanctions when they export to Canada and the United States," EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said. Mr. Lamy said the EU's contentious ban "on certain growth-promoting hormones is now in full respect" of world trade rules. EU spokeswoman Arancha Gonzalez said EU officials had been in contact...

U.S. forces stormed into western districts of Fallujah early Monday, seizing the main city hospital and securing two key bridges over the Euphrates river in what appeared to be the first stage of the long-expected assault on the insurgent stronghold. excepted as per FR policies.