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Proposed labour rules for Alberta farms go public

Mar. 6, 2017 at 7:45 pm CST

The Alberta public will get about a month to speak its mind on proposed changes to provincial labour laws, with the goal of applying those changes to farms and ranches. The province on Monday released a pair of reports from technical working groups (TWGs) reviewing farm and ranch operations’ status […]

Incentives urged to match organic supply to demand

Mar. 2, 2017 at 9:27 pm CST

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Ontario waste plan to include ban on food waste disposal

Mar. 2, 2017 at 7:55 pm CST

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Grain Commission seeks farmer input on surplus funds

Mar. 1, 2017 at 7:47 pm CST

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Quebec names new deputy ag minister

Feb. 28, 2017 at 5:48 pm CST

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Major flood risks seen in southern Manitoba

Feb. 27, 2017 at 7:53 pm CST

Areas of Manitoba are at moderate to major risk of flooding, according to the province’s first full flood outlook for the spring. Levels of future snowfall and/or rainfall, the timing and speed of snowmelt, and the runoff timing in Manitoba, the U.S., Saskatchewan and Ontario are still “key factors,” the […]

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Extra funds, orders help B.C. ALC clear backlog

Feb. 25, 2017 at 4:19 pm CST

British Columbia’s Agricultural Land Commission credits new funding, and a new regime of performance measures, with helping it to clear its backlog of applications. The ALC, the tribunal overseeing provincial measures to conserve farmland and enable farming-related land use, recently announced it has “eliminated” a backlog of 185 applications — […]

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Canada Bread to shut Beauce-region bakery

Feb. 25, 2017 at 12:23 am CST

Baked goods firm Canada Bread Co. plans to shut a pantry bread bakery in Quebec’s Beauce region and shift a nearby plant’s bread roll production to a third site in the province. The company, an arm of Mexican bakery firm Grupo Bimbo since 2014, announced Tuesday it will close its […]

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New Brunswick, Nova Scotia impose spring weights

Feb. 24, 2017 at 6:29 pm CST

Spring weight limits on trucks and other vehicles are coming into effect on certain roads in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The Nova Scotia transportation department on Thursday announced a maximum weight of 15 tonnes on gravel roads starting at noon Friday (Feb. 24) “until further notice.” “Unseasonably warm weather […]

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Coop federee cracks $6 billion mark in revenues

Feb. 24, 2017 at 2:42 pm CST

Revenues for expansion-minded Quebec agrifood and retail co-operative La Coop federee crossed the $6 billion mark in fiscal 2016, leading to a substantial jump in patronage dividends to producers. The co-operative at its annual meeting reported earnings, before patronage dividends and income taxes, of $275.44 million on $6.335 billion in […]

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