Insights and Stories on Livestock

Feb. 3, 2009 at 5:52 pm CST

Proteins that help regulate cells’ functions in cattle and pigs may open a new window on how animal and human diseases work and could potentially lead to new treatments. Researchers at the Saskatoon-based Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) at the University of Saskatchewan announced Tuesday they have developed a […]

Feb. 3, 2009 at 3:46 pm CST

The Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency (ALMA) expects to be better able to form industry-government partnerships now that it’s incorporated, the agency said Monday. The agency, which reports to provincial Agriculture Minister George Groeneveld, got its incorporation status Monday. “This is an important step in creating a successful partnership with […]

Feb. 2, 2009 at 7:16 pm CST

Maple Leaf Foods and the lawyers handling several listeria-related lawsuits against the company have agreed on terms of a Canada-wide settlement deal to take to courts in three provinces for approval. The settlement, first announced Dec. 18, covers “numerous” proposed class action suits over last summer’s listeriosis outbreak, which was […]

Feb. 2, 2009 at 5:01 pm CST

The process of containing bird flu to a single poultry farm in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley has led federal inspectors to quarantine nine more properties on Sunday. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency reported Sunday that it has now quarantined a total of 36 premises, including the commercial farm where an […]

Jan. 31, 2009 at 5:49 am CST

British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell has named Nanaimo-Parksville MLA Ron Cantelon as the province’s new minister of agriculture and lands, replacing the late Stan Hagen. Cantelon, an MLA since May 2005 and formerly a manager for real estate network Re/Max, entered politics in 1999 as a city councillor in Nanaimo, […]