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Jun. 25, 2008 at 6:14 pm CDT

An Ontario firm’s planned scale-up of production for an E. coli vaccine for cattle is now fully financed, the company announced Wednesday. Pharmaceutical firm Bioniche Life Sciences of Belleville said it has picked up an extension on a pre-existing $7.6 million contribution agreement with Industry Canada from its Industrial Technologies […]

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Jun. 25, 2008 at 5:43 pm CDT

Potash marketing firm Canpotex plans to spend over $500 million over the next four years to expand its export capacity over two Canadian west coast terminals by over 90 per cent. The company, which has offices in Saskatoon, Vancouver, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo, is the jointly-owned offshore marketing arm […]

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Jun. 25, 2008 at 5:28 pm CDT

The Ontario government has pledged $4 million over four years to help farmers’ market groups encourage and promote direct farm marketing to consumers. The new funding comes from a $56 million allocation in the March budget for “buy Ontario” and “buy local” initiatives, the province said in a release Tuesday. […]

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Jun. 25, 2008 at 2:05 pm CDT

Weather data and computer modeling will help the Canadian Wheat Board post new daily maps estimating how and when wheat midge will emerge across the Prairies. The CWB announced Wednesday that it will post midge emergence maps on its site every weekday until the end of July. The maps are […]

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Jun. 25, 2008 at 1:08 pm CDT

Quebec MP Christian Paradis, the federal secretary of state for agriculture, has been named the federal minister for public works and government services. Paradis’ new duties will be in addition to his work on the ag file, assisting Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Wednesday. Secretaries of […]

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