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Reports on the soaring cost of paper prices in Canada. Increasingly bitter struggle between cash-strapped publishers and the pulp-and-paper industry that supplies them; Impact of rising paper prices on readers; Decline in number of trees to be harvested; No sign of any newsprint supplies emerging to relieve the pressure on publishers.

The article reports on a bioactive paper being designed in Canada, which would help protect humans from bacteria and viruses. The Sentinel Bioactive Paper Network consists of Canadian universities, government and business partners researching the antibacterial product. The hope is for a paper that can detect, warn and destroy bacteria upon contact. Data from the Public Health Agency of Canada is provided and network director Bob Pelton quoted.