Insights and Stories of Dave Bedard

Revised U.S. COOL law still breaks trade rules, WTO panel finds

Oct. 20, 2014 at 1:09 pm CDT

A World Trade Organization compliance panel has ruled the U.S. government offside in its latest attempt at a trade-compliant country-of-origin labelling (COOL) law on meat. Following a long-awaited public release Monday, the ruling may give Canada and Mexico the ammunition to demand COOL be scrapped, on pain of retaliatory tariffs […]

Chance remains for Que. beef plant before asset sale

Oct. 10, 2014 at 7:26 pm CDT

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Canadian produce growers lose U.S. default protection

Oct. 4, 2014 at 2:26 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Neonic makers targeted in planned beekeeper class action

Sep. 3, 2014 at 2:57 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Record-high pork values to cushion Russia’s sanctions

Aug. 8, 2014 at 6:35 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Arbitrator sets out labour deal for CN conductors

Jun. 20, 2014 at 5:57 pm CDT

Updated, June 23, 2014 — Binding terms are now in place for a few years’ labour peace between Canadian National Railway (CN) and its conductors and yardpeople. CN announced Friday it has received, and will “immediately” start carrying out, the decisions made by federally-appointed arbitrator Michel Picher. Picher’s rulings are binding […]

By Dave Bedard

Sustainability, health, development hooked into NDP food plan

Jun. 4, 2014 at 6:30 pm CDT

With about a year and a half to go before a federal election, the opposition New Democrats have mapped out a overarching food strategy roping in agriculture, rural affairs, environment and nutrition policy. NDP agriculture critic Malcolm Allen and deputy ag critic Ruth Ellen Brosseau on Wednesday launched their party’s […]

By Dave Bedard

Mexican beef packers approved to export to Canada

May. 16, 2014 at 6:40 pm CDT

Four processing plants in Mexico are the first to ship beef from that country to Canada under new export certificates finalized last month, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed. While Mexico’s agriculture secretariat (SAGARPA) announced in mid-February that CFIA has recognized Mexico’s federal inspection system as equivalent for beef […]

By Dave Bedard

U.S. appeal court won’t block COOL for livestock groups

Mar. 28, 2014 at 1:54 pm CDT

Canadian, U.S. and Mexican livestock producer and processor groups, seeking an injunction to block the U.S. government’s latest version of its country-of-origin labelling (COOL) rule, won’t get it from their latest appeal. The U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia circuit, on Friday affirmed a U.S. District Court ruling last […]

By Dave Bedard

Sulfonylurea-tolerant canola eyed for 2016 launch

Mar. 26, 2014 at 11:16 am CDT

A U.S. genetics firm has picked up Canadian approval for a trait it plans to use to breed non-genetically modified canola tolerant to sulfonylurea herbicides. San Diego-based Cibus Global last week announced plant novel trait (PNT) approval from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Health Canada for its product, which […]

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Insights and Stories of Dave Bedard

Revised U.S. COOL law still breaks trade rules, WTO panel finds

Chance remains for Que. beef plant before asset sale

Canadian produce growers lose U.S. default protection

Neonic makers targeted in planned beekeeper class action

Record-high pork values to cushion Russia’s sanctions

Arbitrator sets out labour deal for CN conductors

Sustainability, health, development hooked into NDP food plan

Mexican beef packers approved to export to Canada

U.S. appeal court won’t block COOL for livestock groups

Sulfonylurea-tolerant canola eyed for 2016 launch

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