Insights and Stories of Dave Bedard

Quebec’s UPA hit by ransomware attack

Aug. 17, 2022 at 9:20 pm CDT

Quebec’s overarching farmer organization, l’Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA), has confirmed its computer systems were hit by a ransomware attack earlier this month. UPA, in a release last Thursday, said it’s working with a cybersecurity firm to analyze the nature and scope of the attack, as well as any possible […]

CP arbitration ends in two-year deal for engineers, conductors

Aug. 15, 2022 at 8:45 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Prairie drought spurs record imports via Trois-Rivieres

Aug. 11, 2022 at 8:18 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Lactalis to shift from milk to near-milk at Sudbury

Aug. 10, 2022 at 7:00 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Feds apologize for Saskatchewan farming colony scheme

Aug. 10, 2022 at 12:08 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Agropur cheese plant workers take deal, halt strike

Aug. 8, 2022 at 8:15 pm CDT

Milk delivery to a major cheese plant in Eastern Canada is expected to resume soon as unionized employees at dairy co-operative Agropur’s facility at Granby, Que. end a five-and-a-half-week strike. The plant’s 250-odd workers, represented by the Syndicat des salaries de la fromagerie — an arm of Centrale des syndicats […]

By Dave Bedard

Direct compensation for fertilizer tariffs not on table

Jul. 25, 2022 at 7:47 am CDT

Farmers in Eastern Canada who rely on imports of Russian-made fertilizers aren’t going to see direct compensation for the federal government’s general tariff on those products. A clutch of farmer and ag industry groups on July 15 put forward a new request to Ottawa for compensation to farmers “negatively impacted” […]

By Dave Bedard

Ag ministers lock in next policy funding framework

Jul. 22, 2022 at 9:48 pm CDT

The new federal-provincial ag policy funding framework due to take effect next April 1 will include a new ecological goods and services plan and a sweetened compensation rate for AgriStability. Following meetings this week in Saskatoon, federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau and her provincial and territorial counterparts on Friday mapped […]

By Dave Bedard

Retailer takes over G3 ag input site

Jul. 19, 2022 at 4:50 am CDT

A western Saskatchewan ag retail chain has expanded its footprint in that region after closing a deal for a G3 grain elevator’s crop input business. G3 announced Monday it had completed the sale of the ag input business adjacent to its elevator west of Plenty, Sask., to Saskatchewan input and […]

By Dave Bedard

P.E.I. finance minister moves to ag file

Jul. 19, 2022 at 3:36 am CDT

Prince Edward Island’s deputy premier now handles the provincial agriculture file following a cabinet shuffle Friday. Premier Dennis King has named Darlene Compton, MLA for the riding of Belfast-Murray River, as minister of agriculture and land, justice and public safety minister and attorney general, replacing Stanhope-Marshfield MLA Bloyce Thompson. Thompson, […]

By Dave Bedard

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Insights and Stories of Dave Bedard

Quebec’s UPA hit by ransomware attack

CP arbitration ends in two-year deal for engineers, conductors

Prairie drought spurs record imports via Trois-Rivieres

Lactalis to shift from milk to near-milk at Sudbury

Feds apologize for Saskatchewan farming colony scheme

Agropur cheese plant workers take deal, halt strike

Direct compensation for fertilizer tariffs not on table

Ag ministers lock in next policy funding framework

Retailer takes over G3 ag input site

P.E.I. finance minister moves to ag file

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