Insights and Stories on Quebec

Sep. 14, 2023 at 3:47 am CDT

Pork and poultry packer Olymel is preparing to permanently shut two further-processing facilities and shift their work to other plants in a new round of consolidation. Olymel, the meat packing arm of Quebec’s Sollio Cooperative, announced Wednesday it will permanently close its pork boning and packaging plant at Princeville, Que. […]

By Dave Bedard

Sep. 13, 2023 at 4:43 am CDT

A Quebec organic pork producer and packer is seeking a clean break for organic and Certified Humane producers from that province’s collective hog marketing arrangement. Viandes duBreton, based at Saint-Bernard, about 50 km south of Quebec City, said Aug. 22 it has put a request before the Regie de marché […]

By OrganicBiz

Aug. 22, 2023 at 3:43 pm CDT

London | Reuters — The fires that tore through the province of Quebec between May and July were made at least twice as likely by climate change, scientists said on Tuesday. Climate change, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, also made the fires as much as 50 per cent […]

By Gloria Dickie

Jun. 20, 2023 at 8:31 pm CDT

Unionized workers at Olymel’s bacon processing plant at Drummondville, Que. have voted to accept a four-year deal, ending a three-week strike and serving as a “signal” to employers in the region, their union said. Olymel announced Friday that CSN-represented workers at the Bacon Inter-America facility, who’d been on strike since […]

By Dave Bedard

Jun. 5, 2023 at 6:12 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada is on track for its worst-ever year of wildfire destruction as warm and dry conditions are forecast to persist through to the end of the summer after an unprecedented start to the fire season, officials said on Monday. Blazes are burning in nearly all Canadian […]

By Reuters