Insights and Stories on Infrastructure

Development partners commit US$30 billion to food production in Africa

Jan. 27, 2023 at 8:11 pm CST

Dakar | Reuters — Development partners have committed US$30 billion to boost food production in Africa over the next five years, the president of the African Development Bank said on Friday at the close of a summit on food security on the continent. The continent is facing its worst food […]

Spy agency sees ransomware attacks soaring

Dec. 6, 2021 at 4:28 pm CST

By Reuters

Canada’s CPPIB to buy major U.S. port terminal operator

Sep. 29, 2021 at 4:16 pm CDT

By David French Sohini Podder

Federal fund, Alberta government back irrigation upgrades

Oct. 10, 2020 at 6:16 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Federal irrigation pledge seen flowing mainly to Prairies

Oct. 1, 2020 at 7:47 pm CDT

By D.C. Fraser

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

Wheat in Whitehorse: How climate change helps feed Canada’s remote regions

Mar. 23, 2020 at 8:34 am CDT

Winnipeg/Ottawa | Reuters — After failing to grow wheat in the Yukon territory 15 years ago, farmer Steve Mackenzie-Grieve gave it another shot in 2017. Thanks to longer summers, he has reaped three straight harvests. This spring he plans to sow canola on his family’s 450-acre farm near Whitehorse, a […]

By Kelsey Johnson Rod Nickel

NYC equity firm to buy Xplornet

Feb. 27, 2020 at 7:59 pm CST

A Manhattan private equity firm deep in “middle-market infrastructure” has committed to buy, and help improve service from, Canada’s single biggest rural broadband provider. New Brunswick-based, privately held Xplornet Communications announced Thursday it has signed a deal to sell majority control itself to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners. The two companies’ announcement […]

By GFM Staff

U.S. farmers face devastation following Midwest floods

Mar. 20, 2019 at 8:15 pm CDT

Winslow, Neb./Chicago | Reuters — Midwestern farmers have been gambling they could ride out the U.S.-China trade war by storing their corn and soybeans anywhere they could — in bins, plastic tubes, in barns or even outside. Now, the unthinkable has happened. Record floods have devastated a wide swath of […]

By Humeyra Pamuk P.J. Huffstutter Tom Polansek

Rural development strategy sought in federal shuffle

Jan. 17, 2019 at 3:43 am CST

Rural economic development has been given a promotion at the federal level in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s latest cabinet shuffle. In the shuffle, following the departure of Treasury Board president Scott Brison from cabinet, Trudeau on Monday called up Bernadette Jordan, MP for the southern Nova Scotia riding of South […]