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Montreal - Canada's premiers are committed to reducing internal trade barriers that limit competitiveness, Manitoba's Gary Doer and Bernard Lord of New Brunswick said Tuesday. The two provincial leaders met on behalf of the newly formed Council of the Federation with trade ministers from all provinces and territories. "The premiers want to get on with a modernization of internal trade," Doer told reporters following the one-day meeting. "We don't have Berlin walls between provinces today but we do have some moats that we have to cross." Domestic trade in Canada totals more than $200 billion a year. The premiers said they hope to have an agreement finalized when they meet next July. Their counterparts will review progress made during next month's Council of the Federation meeting in Vancouver. Toronto - A class-action suit against Canada's three main tobacco companies should not be allowed to proceed because of a glaring lack of evidence, defence lawyers argued Tuesday. Edmonton - You don't need to kill every mosquito to prevent a West Nile virus outbreak Ñ just reduce their population below a threshold level, says a study by three researchers at the University of Alberta's centre for mathematical biology. Ottawa - Throughout the massive summer power blackout, the federal government relied on a master emergency plan dating from the Cold War, reports said yesterday.
