Insights and Stories on Prince Edward Island

P.E.I.’s incumbent ag critic, minister returned in election

Apr. 26, 2019 at 5:19 pm CDT

Prince Edward Island’s incumbent agriculture minister and lead opposition critic both held onto their seats in Tuesday’s election but will return to a much different legislative assembly. Dennis King’s opposition Progressive Conservatives captured 12 of 26 available districts to win a minority government. Peter Bevan-Baker’s Greens move up into official […]

CFA elects new chief

Mar. 3, 2019 at 4:04 pm CST

By GFM Staff

As U.S., Canada spar, farm hopes ride on two men in lobster boat

Jun. 15, 2018 at 11:48 am CDT

By Rod Nickel Tom Polansek

P.E.I. names new agriculture minister

Jan. 10, 2018 at 8:52 pm CST

By Staff

Sobeys locks in Atlantic Beef for P.E.I. stores

Sep. 29, 2016 at 7:39 pm CDT

By Staff

Canada says GMO salmon safe for consumption

May. 19, 2016 at 8:22 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada approved a type of genetically modified salmon for sale, health officials said on Thursday, the first such animal to be cleared as safe for consumption in the country. The salmon was approved in the U.S. to be farmed for human consumption last year but has […]

By Leah Schnurr

P.E.I. brings provincial vet job in-house

May. 4, 2016 at 3:32 pm CDT

Relying until now on the services of the Atlantic Veterinary College, Prince Edward Island’s government has named a new in-house provincial veterinarian. The province on Tuesday named Dr. Carolyn Sanford to fill the post, in which she’ll oversee policy and regulatory issues related to animal health and welfare, including livestock […]

By Staff

P.E.I. farms and fisheries ministries merge

May. 20, 2015 at 10:38 am CDT

A reorganization of Prince Edward Island’s government departments will see agriculture split from forestry and instead paired with fisheries. Having returned to office in the May 4 election, Premier Wade MacLauchlan on Wednesday announced his new cabinet, appointing former education and transportation minister Alan McIsaac as minister of agriculture and […]

By Staff

P.E.I. Liberals in need of ag minister after win

May. 5, 2015 at 8:29 am CDT

Wade MacLauchlan’s Liberals scored another majority in the Prince Edward Island legislature in Monday’s election, but will need to find a new agriculture minister. George Webster — who’d held the post from 2009 until Monday, stepping down temporarily in 2009 to recover from a mild heart attack — opted not to […]

By Staff

Veterinarian and P.E.I. ag minister Bud Ings, 89

Mar. 27, 2015 at 4:03 pm CDT

Memorial services were held Friday in Montague, P.E.I. for Dr. Bud Ings, a “pioneer” of veterinary medicine who served as the province’s agriculture minister in the 1970s and later supported the development of the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC). Ings, who died last Friday at Montague’s Kings County Memorial Hospital at […]

By Staff

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