Insights and Stories of Staff

Saputo buys further into Australian cheese market

Mar. 2, 2015 at 8:16 pm CST

Canada’s biggest dairy processor has reached a deal to buy further into the Australian market, by buying the “everyday cheese” business of Australian beverage and dairy giant Lion. Saputo on Monday said it had reached a deal for Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory, its 88 per cent-owned Australian subsidiary, to […]

Case IH, New Holland launch pre-owned certification

Feb. 28, 2015 at 2:14 pm CST

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Ontario’s Agricorp to offer direct deposit

Feb. 26, 2015 at 7:05 pm CST

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Sask. decouples unseeded acres from crop insurance package

Feb. 26, 2015 at 6:36 pm CST

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Trade panel rejects Que. appeal on edible oil products

Feb. 25, 2015 at 7:46 pm CST

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Pork packers Olymel, Atrahan plan ‘partnership’

Feb. 25, 2015 at 1:36 pm CST

Meat packer Olymel has a “partnership” pact in hand with a competing Quebec pork player for joint operation of both companies’ hog slaughter and processing businesses. Olymel, the pork and poultry arm of La Coop federee, announced an agreement in principle Wednesday with family-owned packer Atrahan Transformation, to start talks […]

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Prairie crop checkoff tax credits pegged for 2014

Feb. 24, 2015 at 8:44 pm CST

Prairie crop growers who are preparing their returns for the 2014 tax year and didn’t ask for refunds on their crop checkoffs may be able to see some of those funds come back in tax credits. Some crop commodity groups’ checkoffs qualify for the federal Scientific Research and Experimental Development […]

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Last-minute tentative deal averts lockout at CN

Feb. 24, 2015 at 1:47 am CST

Canadian National Railway (CN) has pulled its lockout notice after reaching a tentative labour deal with its unionized mechanical and clerical staff. The company, which last week set a lockout deadline of 11 p.m. ET Monday for employees represented by Unifor, announced the agreement late Monday night. “We are very […]

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CN set to lock out 4,800 mechanical, clerical staff Monday

Feb. 20, 2015 at 7:09 pm CST

Canadian National Railway (CN) plans to lock out about 4,800 unionized employees across Canada starting Monday night (Feb. 23) unless their union agrees to arbitration for a new contract. Montreal-based CN’s move follows Thursday’s announcement by Unifor — the union representing CN’s mechanical, intermodal and clerical workers — that it […]

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Parmalat to shut Quebec mozza plant

Feb. 20, 2015 at 7:32 am CST

The Canadian arm of Italian dairy giant Parmalat plans to close a mozzarella processing plant near Montreal and consolidate its Quebec cheesemaking work at one major facility. Parmalat said Thursday it will close its plant at Marieville, about 40 km east of Montreal, at the end of September. A new […]

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