Insights and Stories on Canada

Jun. 8, 2023 at 3:47 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — Allies around the world are promising to boost support for Canada’s fight against hundreds of blazes amid the country’s worst-ever start to wildfire season, which is fueling concerns about the worsening consequences of climate change. Forest fires continued to burn across Canada on Thursday, forcing thousands […]

By Ismail Shakil, Nia Williams

Jun. 7, 2023 at 5:37 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The Canadian bison industry has been through some difficult times during the last few years but is now emerging from those doldrums, according to Manitoba Bison Association president Robert Johnson. “Between the two drought years and the COVID-19 pandemic, then high feed prices, probably the last two years […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

May. 31, 2023 at 4:46 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — June is expected to see a continuation of the hot and dry weather most of the Canadian Prairies has experienced in May, according to Scott Kehler, chief scientist for Weatherlogics. “It looks like late spring/early summer is pretty hot across almost all of Western Canada. The Prairies are […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

May. 25, 2023 at 8:30 pm CDT

Canadian beef exporters can expect to regain full market access to Taiwan within the next couple of weeks, Canada’s international trade minister said Thursday. Posting on Twitter Thursday from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) trade ministers’ meeting in Detroit, Mary Ng said Taiwanese officials have confirmed the decision, which […]

By Dave Bedard

May. 25, 2023 at 2:04 pm CDT

Canada and Mexico have come to an understanding on trade of organic foods. The two countries recently signed on for the Canada-Mexico Organic Equivalency Arrangement, which will allow certain products certified under either the Canada Organic Regime or the Mexican organic system to be sold and labelled as organic in […]

By OrganicBiz