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The article reports on the debate in Great Britain on whether to use paper or plastic for monetary purposes as of December 19, 2013. The impact that Canada's use of polymer plastics for money has on Great Britain's currency, including in regard to the plastic bank notes used by the British, is discussed.

Speculates on the possible merger of two paper companies in Canada, Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. and Donohue Inc. Impact of the reports on the trading of their stocks; Background on the paper industry; Outlook of the merger.

The newsprint manufacturer White Birch Paper Company has filed for bankruptcy protection, citing declining demand for newspapers and the strength of the Canadian dollar. The company's United States unit, the Bear Island Paper Company, filed a Chapter 11 petition in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday. It listed assets of $100 million to $500 million and debt of $500 million to $1 billion in the court documents. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Canadian government said on Wednesday that it would provide a billion Canadian dollars to its struggling pulp and paper industry, a move seen as an effort to counter a controversial American subsidy. Although billed as an environmental measure, the assistance, about $882 million, appears to be prompted by an American alternative fuels program that has inadvertently become a multibillion-dollar windfall for producers in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the success of the paper industry in Canada in early 2001. Reasons for the success, including the printing of office documents and email messages. Comments from Pierre Trudel, vice-president of Domtar Inc.; Importance of paper products for shipping to Internet companies; Outlook for the industry.

Reports that normal business was suspended on April 10, 1996, by Canada's armed forces to hunt for missing documents pertaining to the nation's worst military scandal in the postwar era. Who made the order that the search be conducted; Aims of the search; Details on the Somalia affair; Length of the search and rescue operation; Reference made to Canada's embattled military chief, General Jean Boyle's role in the search.

The article presents information about the credit crisis surrounding the asset-backed commercial paper of Canada. The turmoil in the credit markets, particularly in the U.S., along with an unusual Canadian regulation, have shut down the market for nearly 34 billion Canadian dollars in commercial paper. The matter has become like an embarrassment for DBRS, a Toronto-based debt-rating agency.

The article profiles Bryan Bennett, the newly crowned second-ranking Rock Paper Scissors player in the world. Bennett grew from a casual childhood player to a barroom competitor in Catholic University and on to the World Rock Paper Scissor Championship in Toronto (Canada). He offer advice on reading the throws of male and female competitors.

Reports that University of Ottawa business professor Jimming Lin was found guilty of plagiarizing a graduate student's paper. The university found liable; Amount of compensation to be paid to the student.

Announces the planned merger between paper companies, Abitibi-Price Incorporated and Stone-Consolidated Corporation, in Canada on February 14, 1997. Value of transaction; Name of the company after merger; Terms of the agreement; Benefits of the combination of the two companies; Views of analysts.

Reports that Kimberly-Clark Corp. was considering a tax-free spinoff of its business paper and Canadian pulp operations, which would allow it to focus on higher-margin consumer and health care products.

Announces the closure of Abitibi-Consolidated Inc.'s paper mills in Lufkin, Texas and Port-Alfred, Quebec.

AbitibiBowater, North America's largest newsprint maker, agreed to sell $350 million of convertible bonds to Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. to help avoid defaulting on debt due in the second quarter. The sale is part of a previously announced $1.4 billion refinancing plan. AbitibiBowater, based in Montreal, has struggled to win creditor support to extend the maturity of its debt amid turmoil in credit markets and falling North American consumption of newsprint. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the battle for the media empire built by Conrad M. Black, the Canadian publisher turned British Lord. Two versions for consideration; Lord Black as man who ignored his fiduciary duty so he could live well; Or, Lord Black as the victim of institutional investors who are out to deny him his fundamental rights of ownership; Role of the Sarbanes-Oxley law in each scenario; Ownership in Hollinger Inc. in Canada, Hollinger International in the U.S.; Stalemate in the struggle; Suggestion of a reasonable settlement by Lord Black; Suspicion that only the lawyers will come out on top.

Discusses an announcement made by CanWest Global Communications that it plans to buy a large number of Canadian daily newspapers from international press magnate Conrad Black. Asper family, the largest shareholders in the company; Political and social issues associated with the acquisition; Debt held by Black, who owns the media company Hollinger International; Outlook for the future.

This article features an interview with Dr. Andrea Prince, a full-time general practitioner at Puvirnituq Hospital in the Inuit village of Puvirnituq, located in Nunavik, Canada's Far North. Dr. Prince discusses the challenges of practicing medicine in a remote region within the Inuit community and the impact it has had on her vocation. She highlights the shortage of staff, lack of resources, and difficulties in accessing care in isolated regions. Dr. Prince emphasizes the importance of prevention campaigns, addressing logistical needs such as the lack of a scanner and mammogram machine, and improving women's health services. Despite the challenges, she finds her work rewarding and encourages colleagues to consider working in the Far North. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas, with topics including a deadly explosion in Gaza, international condemnations, Israel's efforts to oust Hamas, and the risk of a regional war. It is discussed that Hamas is considered a terrorist organization by several countries and organizations, including the United States, the European Union, Israel, Canada, and many others.

The article reports on the Matildas' remarkable transformation in the World Cup, from struggling to dominant, and their unexpected victory against Canada. It discusses their recent victory against Canada, the team's unpredictability, the emotional rollercoaster experienced by fans, and the coach's evasive responses regarding player injuries.It also explores the coach's evasiveness, the expectations placed on athletes, and the excitement and uncertainty of hosting a World Cup.

This article reports on the order given by the Canadian Supreme Court to a Newfoundland university to pay a former student nearly a million dollars for wrongly reporting to the province's Child Protection Services 12 years ago that she could be a sexual abuser. The saga began in 1994, when Wanda Young, who was taking a correspondence course on social work from Memorial University of Newfoundland, wrote a term paper on juvenile sex offenders. Young's professor speculated to colleagues and superiors that the appendix was a personal confession and a cry for help, the ruling says.

Reports on the efforts of conservationists to preserve Canada's boreal forest, one of the last great expanses of unspoiled vegetation on earth and a breeding ground for billions of birds. New report by environmental groups highlighting threats to the forest and demanding a moratorium on logging and development in the most endangered parts of the boreal forest until a conservation plan is developed; Threats to the forest, including logging, farming, mining and drilling for oil and gas; Concerns of bird conservation groups about threats to the forest; Importance of forest as a nesting ground for birds; Pressure by environmentalist groups on U.S. paper retailers to increase the amount of recycled paper they sell in order to minimize logging.

Canada has decided not to join the AUKUS arrangement and purchase nuclear submarines, instead opting to cooperate with Germany and Norway in a submarine program and buy conventionally powered submarines. The AUKUS deal, which involves Australia acquiring nuclear submarines, has faced widespread criticism, including from former prime minister Paul Keating and various Labor Party units and unions. Concerns have been raised about the cost, technical issues, and the potential for Australia to become further entangled in US exceptionalism and hegemony. There is a call for a circuit breaker to prevent a drift towards a Cold War situation between the US and China. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports on the major contents of a confidential paper on higher education, commissioned by Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. A copy of the paper, which was submitted to the prime minister in December 1987 but not made public, was leaked to the Ontario Federation of Students. The paper called on the federal government to increase its spending on university-based research.

Reports on the controversy surrounding a Holocaust-themed cartoon published on the April 21, 2004 issue of "The Medium," an alternative student newspaper at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, New Jersey. Request of Rutger president Richard L. McCormick for the newspaper staff to apologize for the cartoon; Features of the newspaper; Obligation of the university to honor the First Amendment rights of all students groups and publications.

Reports that two of Canada's research institutions, the University of Toronto and McGill University, have lost influence in the past decades. Results of the Institute for Scientific Information's study on the frequency with which scientific papers from Canadian universities had been cited in other academic papers from 1973 to 1988.

The article reports on the impact of laws passed in various provinces of Canada that prohibit government institutions, including public colleges, from taking data across the border into the U.S., where the USA Patriot Act has given federal agencies expanded investigative and surveillance power. In response, some Canadian colleges are making rules preventing professors from crossing the border with student private data on their laptops. These and other measures are proving confusing and expensive, in part because the applicable laws vary by province.

This article discusses the Thomson Corporation, a Toronto, Canada-based media corporation that specializes in high-end electronic information. Thomson once owned "The Times of London" and a series of newspapers in the United States, but sold those papers to focus on electronic media. The Thomson family, owner of seventy percent of shares in the Thomson Corporation, is profiled.

For Canadians looking to escape winter's premature arrival in many parts of the country by visiting the United States, the equally unexpected movement of the Canadian dollar toward parity with its American counterpart is welcome news. For corporate Canada, however, the development is less inspiring. At Cascades, a producer of cardboard used to make boxes and tissue paper, every cent the Canadian dollar gains shaves 4 million Canadian dollars from its operating earnings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In Canada's Pacific Northwest, where I grew up, the beaches were strewn with thousands of fugitive logs that had escaped the water transporters bringing them down toward the prospering lumber sawmills and pulp and paper factories all around Vancouver Island. On our gray sand shores, those shaved logs became home to insects, birds and small rodents and made great hiding places or impromptu tents. A favorite childhood game was to see who could traverse the most beached logs without ever touching the sand. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A $32 billion segment of Canada's debt market was placed under bankruptcy protection on Monday after a committee established to restructure the troubled debt missed a settlement deadline. While last Friday was the deadline for restructuring the debt, Purdy Crawford, the chairman of the committee, called the Pan-Canadian Investors Committee for Third-Party Structured Asset-Backed Commercial Paper, said the bankruptcy filing was not ''a last-minute Hail Mary pass; it is a carefully considered structural step in our process.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents information on a tentative reconstructing agreement designed to inject an amount of $33 billion into the Canadian debt market. Five major Canadian banks will take part in the liquidity effort. According to the agreement, the asset-backed commercial paper will be repackaged to make it more attractive.

The article reports that banks and money managers in Canada came together to terminate a credit crisis in an arcane branch of Canada's debt market. An agreement was signed by the group to resolve a problem where some nonbank holders of asset-backed commercial paper were not able to roll over their debt and get their banks to provide emergency financing.

The author reports that, according to a major study of academic misconduct in Canada, cheating, deceit and plagiarism are common on Canadian campuses. The study, performed by Christensen Hughes of the University of Guelph in Ontario and Donald L. McCabe, of Rutgers Business School in New Jersey, is similar to one that found widespread cheating among graduate students in the United States and Canada, particularly among M.B.A. students. A report based on the Canadian study will be published in the November issue of "The Canadian Journal of Higher Education." The surveys also showed that 46% of faculty members and 38% of teaching assistants had ignored suspected cases of academic misconduct citing a lack of proof.

Comments on the excellence of Canadian astronomers, whose research is cited in scientific papers at a more frequent rate than astronomers from any other country. Information on Canadian astronomers, which was reported by the Institute for Scientific Information in Philadelphia, which monitors scientific publications; Mention of Canada's part-ownership of the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope on Mauna Kea, and its Gemini Observatories in Hawaii and Chile; Comments of Dr. Dennis R. Crabtree, an astronomer with the National Research Council Canada in Victoria, British Colombia.

Reports that high levels of contaminants were found in the wild meat and fish consumed by Grassy Narrows and Wabauskang First Nations in Ontario. Identification of otters to have the highest levels of mercury; Consideration of paper mills near the reserves as the one responsible for contamination of traditional foods; Statement of Judy Da Silva, project manager for the Grassy Narrows study, on the need for further studies on the effect of industry on human health.

Reports on the seeming free rein given by Lord Black by Hollinger International which may be coming to an end. Lawsuit which is seeking to block the sale of Black's shares with a countersuit by Black that he had the right to amend the Hollinger by-laws to prevent other board members from interfering with his deal; Previous latitude which was allowed by the board in managing and intermingling the company's business affairs with his own; Example of a $8 million purchase of a set of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's personal papers whose price the board did not question nor get appraised; Resolution of a deal with Horizon Publications in Canada where a Canadian court found a serious conflict of interest which information was never made available to the Hollinger board; Core of the board which consists of the same directors who worked with Lord Black; Issue of who was looking out for the investors.

Presents the results of a student procrastination study,conducted by Fuschia M. Sirois, a doctoral candidate in psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario and Timothy A. Pychyl, an associate professor of psychology in the university. Tendency of procrastinators to have unhealthy patterns of sleep; Link of procrastination with avoidant coping styles; Rates of smoking and alcoholic drinking among procrastinators.

The article presents information about Carriage House, a new dormitory at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. It is the university's first dormitory devoted to sustainable living. The residence, which opened last fall, is one of the first in Canada to give students the opportunity to make environmentally conscious daily choices, such as drying their clothes on lines outside or turning down the heat in their bedrooms. In that way it differs from the large energy-efficient "green" dormitories increasingly being built on campuses.

Reports that executives of newsprint producer, Abitibi-Consolidated of Canada are fighting for their jobs in presentations to institutional investors across North America after an attempt by its largest minority shareholder to have them removed. Details of the attack by Pierre Karl Peladeau, chief executive of Quebecor Inc. on John Weaver, chief executive of Abitibi.

Reports that professor Jimming Lin and the University of Ottawa was ordered to pay Paul Boudreau money in damages and reimbursement after Lin had plagiarized a Master of Business Administration (MBA) student's paper. Comments from spokeswoman Helen Carty on the case; Decision taken by the court judge; Views of Boudreau on the case.

Announces Montreal, Quebec-based Stone Consolidated Corporation's plans to shut down two of its newsprint mills. Reasons for the temporarily closure.

Examines the use of consumer boycotts in a court case in Canada, involving the Lubricon Indians and Daishowa Paper Manufacturing, in which the Lubricon Indians are fighting to retain their land. Formation of an activist group `Friends of the Lubricon' to assist the Indians; Use of consumer boycotts by the `Friends of the Lubricon' organization.

The article reports on the issuance of the Canadian Patent Office's first patent for a new life form to Abitibi-Price Inc. for a bacterium developed through genetic engineering to consume pollution from paper mills. According to the patent office, genetically engineered life forms, including bacteria, yeasts, and new insect species, are patentable.

The article reports that Andre Gunder Frank, a West German teaching at the University of East Anglia in Great Britain, who has been denied entry to Canada on four occasions has received permission from the country's new Conservative government. The government has revealed that Frank may attend the International Congress of Americanists in Vancouver, British Colombia, where he has been invited to present a paper. The decision represents the government's effort to reverse Liberal policies.

The article discusses ways in which efforts by Canadian universities to recruit and hire international professors has led to a decrease in the amount of college teaching positions and research opportunities available for Canadian doctoral students. It explores the history of British and American influence on Canadian higher education, chronicles the Canadianization movement of the 1970s through 1990s, and presents comments from professors Louis Groarke and Yves Gingras and Canadian Association of University Teachers director James Turk.

The article reports on problems that foreign students in the U.S. states of Maine, Michigan, and New York have experienced due to increased enforcement of immigration regulations by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents near the Canadian border. It presents a description of how U.S. immigration laws have been altered since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and explores several instances near Rochester, New York where international students have been detained and questioned at border checkpoints, on trains, and at bus stations regarding their citizenship status. It also presents comments from several individuals regarding this subject including law professor Nancy Morawetz, immigration lawyer Frank A. Novak, and University of Rochester official Cary M. Jensen.

Presents news briefs on higher education as of September 3, 2004. Action taken by the University of Newcastle in New South Wales to fight propaganda campaigns being waged against its minority and international students; Information on a solar-car accident involving killed Andrew Ford, a student of the University of Toronto in Ontario; Dismissal of professor Huang Zongying from Peking University in Beijing, China for extensive plagiarism.

Features Steve Mann, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Toronto and a self-described cyborg, short for cybernetic organism, who wears a computer-vision system. Expenses considered in manufacturing and selling the wearable computers; Benefits of wearable computers; Criticisms of the social and political implications of technology; Problem encountered with the security of Air Canada.

Reports on the online sales of master's theses and doctoral dissertations by Contentville.com. Relationship between Contentville and UMI Dissertations Publishing; Concern of Canadian graduate students over the arrangement; Opinion of Louise H. Forsyth of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada that Canadian scholars should be told what is being done with their work.

The article covers criticism from researches aimed at a policy from the Canadian federal agency Fisheries and Oceans Canada that limits how scientists can publish their findings. Opponents to the policy, such as oceanographer Andreas K. Muenchow, have claimed that the Canadian government is attempting to unfairly limit public access to government-sponsored environmental and natural-resources studies. Particular attention is given to the impact on university researchers such as Kristina Miller.

Anybody worried about the potential danger from plastic bottles and cups, especially for the very young, should take note. The Canadian government has announced plans to restrict the use of bisphenol-a, or BPA, a chemical used to make hardened plastics. The government would prohibit the sale of baby bottles made with BPA. (Those are the ones with the numeral 7 in the triangle stamp on the bottom). Last month, the United States National Toxicology Program, which assesses the health effects of chemicals, also raised concerns about the potential ''neural and behavioral'' effects of BPA on all humans, but especially on fetuses, infants and young children. The program also warned against heating or microwaving food containers made with BPA, since some studies suggest that BPA may break down faster at higher temperatures. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]