Insights and Stories on General

Rural Manitoba community considers public transit options

Oct. 16, 2020 at 9:39 am CDT

For aging residents of rural Manitoba, there are few challenges that loom larger than transportation. Consider the different realities of urban and rural seniors. For an urban senior, losing the ability to drive for themselves is still a cruel blow of aging, but it isn’t debilitating. Options ranging from buses, […]

World Food Program seeking billions within six months to avert famine

Oct. 13, 2020 at 8:26 pm CDT

By Maytaal Angel

Selling land by app

Oct. 9, 2020 at 9:45 am CDT

By Richard Kamchen

La Nina to bring colder, drier winter

Oct. 5, 2020 at 3:57 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Federal program to protect farms, workers from COVID-19 underway

Oct. 5, 2020 at 3:24 pm CDT

By D.C. Fraser

Canada to keep U.S. border curbs until pandemic much less serious

Oct. 2, 2020 at 7:15 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada will maintain restrictions on non-essential travel with the United States until the coronavirus outbreak in both nations is much less serious, a senior government official said on Friday. The comments by federal Public Safety Minister Bill Blair suggest that the ban on non-essential travel could […]

By David Ljunggren Steve Scherer

Rookie MLA named New Brunswick ag minister

Oct. 2, 2020 at 2:25 am CDT

A politically-active retired New Brunswick schoolteacher is the province’s new minister for agriculture, aquaculture and fisheries. Premier Blaine Higgs, whose new Progressive Conservative cabinet was sworn in Tuesday in Fredericton, appointed Margaret Johnson, the newly elected MLA for the northwestern electoral district of Carleton-Victoria, to handle the ag and fisheries […]

By Dave Bedard

Feds pondering more self-reliance in Canada’s food

Sep. 28, 2020 at 1:22 am CDT

Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau is looking for ways to make Canada’s food supply more autonomous. In an interview Thursday, Bibeau pointed to her minority Liberal government’s pledge in the throne speech to further support the food value chain. That could mean a review of food infrastructure across the country, according […]

By D.C. Fraser

Canada not benefiting from CETA, Bibeau says

Sep. 25, 2020 at 7:39 pm CDT

Canada is not benefiting from the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union (EU), federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau grants. Expected to spur $1.5 billion in new agri-food exports, the free trade deal has fallen short of those targets since its implementation in 2017. In a letter […]

By D.C. Fraser

Pilot project to convert old oil and gas wells gets green light

Sep. 25, 2020 at 9:29 am CDT

A pilot project to convert abandoned oil and gas sites in southern Alberta to renewable power generation has been given the green light and more than $4 million in funding to make it happen. “So far, nobody has actually used abandoned oil and gas infrastructure for solar deployment,” said Keith […]

By Jennifer Blair