Insights and Stories of Staff

New agency to handle Sask. animal welfare enforcement

Mar. 26, 2015 at 5:57 pm CDT

Saskatchewan’s animal protection officers will start Wednesday with a new not-for-profit agency handling animal welfare enforcement work in the province. The provincial agriculture department on Thursday announced a two-year, $610,000-per-year agreement to fund investigative services provided by Animal Protection Services of Saskatchewan, effective April 1. A new toll-free phone number, […]

Ontario Farmer newspaper cleared for sale

Mar. 25, 2015 at 9:04 pm CDT

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CNH to cut, lay off staff in Saskatoon

Mar. 25, 2015 at 8:00 pm CDT

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Canada Bread to shut Ben’s Bakery

Mar. 24, 2015 at 8:27 pm CDT

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Olymel to lay off Que. hog plant staff, cancel hog orders

Mar. 24, 2015 at 6:48 pm CDT

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Ontario’s neonic limits tabled for public comment

Mar. 23, 2015 at 7:15 pm CDT

Proposed new controls on the use and sale of corn and soybean seed treated with neonicotinoid pesticides in Ontario are up for public comment between now and early May. The provincial government made its move Monday — three days ahead of a scheduled meeting between Agriculture Minister Jeff Leal and […]

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Health Canada clears Canadian firm’s ‘non-browning’ apples

Mar. 21, 2015 at 4:49 am CDT

A Canadian company’s genetically modified “non-browning” apples have picked up federal approval for commercial sale after review from Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The Arctic apple, developed by Okanagan Specialty Fruits and submitted for federal approval in 2011, “is safe for consumption, still has all its nutritional […]

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Monsanto rips cancer agency’s Roundup takedown

Mar. 20, 2015 at 8:02 pm CDT

The decision by an international group of cancer experts to classify the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide as “probably carcinogenic” has drawn fire from the product’s main maker. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a France-based arm of the World Health Organization, on Friday released its working group’s […]

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P.E.I. to offer one-time farm truck registration fee

Mar. 19, 2015 at 6:19 pm CDT

Prince Edward Island’s farmers, starting next month, will be able pay a one-time fee to register their farm trucks for as long as they own them. The province until now has charged a cut-rate annual registration fee of $10 on trucks weighing at least one ton (10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight […]

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All but one avian flu quarantine lifted in B.C.

Mar. 19, 2015 at 5:25 pm CDT

A table egg layer operation near Langley is now the only farm still under quarantine for avian flu in British Columbia. All 13 properties in B.C.’s Fraser Valley that had been quarantined for highly-pathogenic H5N2 or H5N1 avian flu since the beginning of December have since been culled of birds, […]

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