Insights and Stories on General

Oct. 2, 2007 at 12:44 am CDT

Probes fitted with high-tech signal generators may be developed to detect food safety and quality problems and air- and waterborne bugs and pathogens if new public investment at the University of Manitoba pans out. The federal/provincial/civic Winnipeg Partnership Agreement will put up $3.2 million for a biological and electrical biosensor […]

By FBC staff

Sep. 27, 2007 at 10:17 am CDT

Manitoba conservation minister Stan Struthers has reintroduced the Forest Health Protection Act that would put into place improved safeguards to help battle against the impacts of woodland pests. “The Forest Health Protection Act will enable measures to help protect Manitoba’s forests against pests such as the pine beetle that has […]

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Sep. 26, 2007 at 3:18 pm CDT

Bonnie Thompson, who edited the Farmlife section of Grainews and the Country Crossroads section of the Manitoba Co-operator, died early Tuesday morning of complications from a long bout with cancer. Thompson, 58, was born in southwestern Manitoba and came to the publishing division of Winnipeg-based United Grain Growers in July […]

By FBC staff

Sep. 26, 2007 at 2:06 pm CDT

There may be a crackdown on how packaged foods’ precautionary labels are worded, if food processors choose not to accurately reflect allergy risks in their warnings, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said yesterday. In an advisory to manufacturers and importers, CFIA and Health Canada noted that their policy on these […]

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Sep. 21, 2007 at 11:15 am CDT

Saskatchewan farmers have beaten Ottawa’s expectations for the Environmental Farm Plan (EFP) program by almost 40 per cent so far. Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Mark Wartman, his provincial counterpart, said yesterday in Regina that 9,000 Saskatchewan farms have completed EFPs in the past two years, well past the […]

By FBC staff