Insights and Stories of Dave Bedard

Aug. 4, 2010 at 7:24 am CDT

A thirst among vehicle thieves for horsepower and hemis has made pickup trucks a “group to watch” in an annual list of vehicle theft losses and theft rates, as compiled by a U.S. insurers’ group. “In many cases it’s tough to pinpoint exactly why a vehicle becomes a theft target,” […]

By Dave Bedard

Apr. 21, 2010 at 6:00 pm CDT

B.C. biofuel maker BioStreet Canada says it’s been granted the provincial environmental permit it needs to move ahead on its planned biodiesel crusher and refinery at Vegreville, Alta. Company president Darrell Michaels described the province’s approval in a release Wednesday as a “significant milestone” for the $210 million project, dubbed […]

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Feb. 18, 2010 at 12:48 pm CST

Lawyers behind the two remaining class-action suits pitting about 135,000 Canadian cattle producers against Ottawa over losses due to BSE will go to court in April to ask for one last merger. Cameron Pallett, a Toronto lawyer for Ontario producer Bill Sauer, said Wednesday that counsel for cattleman Donald Berneche […]

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Feb. 18, 2010 at 10:31 am CST

Alberta cattle producers who temporarily move animals to pastures in Saskatchewan or British Columbia this spring or summer won’t need to pay inspection fees on the way out. The provincial agriculture and rural development department (AARD) said Wednesday it will provide a $25,000 grant this year to Livestock Identification Services […]

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Feb. 6, 2010 at 2:55 pm CST

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has officially dumped its plans for a national animal identification system (NAIS) more than five years and over US$120 million in the making. U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack on Friday announced a “new framework” for animal traceability, to be administered instead by individual states and […]

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