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Canada’s farm income to dip, but remain above average

Feb. 17, 2017 at 7:10 pm CST

Reuters — Canadian farmers’ incomes will decline seven per cent in 2017, falling for the second year in a row but remaining at above-average levels, the country’s agriculture department predicted on Friday. A drop in North American cattle and calf prices from record highs in 2015 is the main reason […]

Give Trump a chance and ‘play this wisely,’ says Mulroney

Feb. 10, 2017 at 9:29 am CST

By Alexis Kienlen

Green Certificate Program lets students gain agricultural, on-farm experience

Jan. 27, 2017 at 10:23 am CST

By Angela Lovell

Canada to Mexico on NAFTA: You might be on your own

Jan. 24, 2017 at 2:40 pm CST

By David Ljunggren

Canada says TPP trade deal dead without U.S.

Jan. 24, 2017 at 2:19 pm CST

By David Ljunggren

Canada not seen as U.S. target in NAFTA talks

Jan. 23, 2017 at 7:01 pm CST

Calgary | Reuters — Canada has a “very special status” and is unlikely to be hit hard by changes the U.S. wants to make to the NAFTA trade accord, the head of a business advisory council to U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday. Stephen Schwarzman made his remarks after […]

By David Ljunggren

Xplornet buying YourLink

Jan. 14, 2017 at 6:15 pm CST

One of Canada’s biggest providers of rural broadband is set to expand its space in the Saskatchewan market by buying rural high-speed wireless provider YourLink. New Brunswick-based Xplornet Communications on Monday announced an all-cash $28.75 million deal with Victoria-based Vecima Networks for the “remaining assets” of Vecima’s YourLink business. YourLink, […]

By Staff

Trade lawyer named federal trade minister

Jan. 10, 2017 at 2:33 pm CST

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s latest mini-cabinet shuffle puts a Quebec lawyer specializing in international trade into the trade minister’s chair. Trudeau on Tuesday appointed Francois-Philippe Champagne, the rookie MP for the Shawinigan-area riding of Saint-Maurice-Champlain, as minister of international trade, replacing Chrystia Freeland. Freeland, as widely expected leading up to […]

By Staff

Trudeau to shuffle Dion out of foreign affairs

Jan. 9, 2017 at 7:28 pm CST

Ottawa | Reuters –– Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will shuffle his cabinet this week and is set to move Foreign Minister Stephane Dion, who ran into political trouble last year, a person with knowledge of the matter said on Monday. “Dion is out,” said the person, who requested anonymity […]

By David Ljunggren

Happy 2017 from Farm Business Communications

Dec. 30, 2016 at 12:15 am CST

On behalf of all of us at Farm Business Communications, here in Winnipeg and across Canada, we’d like to wish you the happiest of new years and, once again, our thanks for your readership in 2016. Our office in Winnipeg closes today at noon and will reopen for regular business […]

By Staff