Insights and Stories on Quarantine

Minks, staff positive for COVID-19 at B.C. mink farm

Dec. 9, 2020 at 10:31 pm CST

A mink farm in southwestern British Columbia’s Fraser Valley is now under provincial veterinary quarantine and its staff self-isolating after several animals and workers tested positive for COVID-19. Fraser Valley Health, the regional health authority for the area, on Sunday declared an outbreak at the farm after eight workers tested […]

Coronavirus kills 15,000 U.S. mink

Nov. 10, 2020 at 7:21 pm CST

By Tom Polansek

Foreign worker isolation support extended

Nov. 2, 2020 at 5:07 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Ontario to insure for crop loss due to lack of labour

Jul. 9, 2020 at 10:45 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Federal government to backstop TFW isolation with funding

Apr. 13, 2020 at 1:43 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

Cross-border truckers exempt from mandatory isolation

Mar. 26, 2020 at 10:31 pm CDT

Truckers and others who are still allowed to cross into Canada on essential business are exempt from a new two-week self-isolation rule for people arriving in the country. Health Minister Patty Hajdu on Wednesday announced an emergency order under the federal Quarantine Act, requiring anyone who’s entering Canada by land, […]

By GFM Staff

COVID-19 and farm workers: How do we manage on the farm?

Mar. 16, 2020 at 1:52 pm CDT

Keeping up to date with COVID-19 details and recommended protocols is challenging for everyone at this time. The Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council has created a dedicated web page with the latest information, recommendations, employee management tips, tools (posters, policies) and links to authorities. These details will help you respond […]

By Jennifer Wright

Last of trace-out quarantines lifted in bovine TB probe

Sep. 26, 2019 at 8:55 pm CDT

The last of 38 cattle herds to be checked for bovine tuberculosis in a federal trace-out investigation across three provinces has been released from movement controls. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday reported that a central Saskatchewan herd has now been released from controls which were imposed in December […]

By GFM Staff

Two Alberta sheep flocks quarantined for scrapie

Jul. 11, 2019 at 5:07 pm CDT

Two flocks of sheep in Alberta are under federal quarantine after a sheep that lived at both farms was confirmed June 21 with classical scrapie. A degenerative nervous system disease affecting sheep and goats, scrapie is one of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) family that includes Creutzfelt-Jakob disease in people, […]

By GFM Staff

India, Canada to work up pulse export protocols

Feb. 23, 2018 at 6:47 pm CST

The prime ministers of Canada and India have agreed to sort out new and predictable rules governing exports of Canadian pulse crops. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, on a state visit this week to India, released a joint statement with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday calling for the two […]

By Staff

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