Insights and Stories on Supply Chains

Unions rip supply chain report’s language on strikes

Oct. 27, 2022 at 8:52 am CDT

Recommendations from the federal government’s National Supply Chain Task Force to strengthen the country’s supply chains have drawn a cheer but also one significant jeer from unions in the transport sector. The task force’s final report, released Oct. 6, offered up 21 recommendations aimed at easing congestion in Canada’s ports, […]

Competition Bureau to probe soaring food prices

Oct. 24, 2022 at 12:58 pm CDT

By Reuters

U.S. trade commission sues pesticide makers, alleging price scheme

Sep. 29, 2022 at 6:52 pm CDT

By Leah Douglas

U.S. eyes baby formula imports amid nationwide shortage

May. 16, 2022 at 7:33 pm CDT

By Jeff Mason Susan Heavey

Supply chain improvement funds pledged in federal budget

Apr. 7, 2022 at 6:56 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Farming behind the lines: Hostages of globalization

Apr. 4, 2022 at 5:51 pm CDT

Imagine — even if it looks unrealistic — that one day Canada will be cut off from the rest of the world. And all import deliveries to the country will be possible, for example, only through Alaska, only by trains along one route. It sounds absurd, but Ukraine, in the […]

By Ihor Pavliuk

Canada, U.S. fear economic damage from border crossing protest

Feb. 9, 2022 at 4:37 pm CST

Windsor/Ottawa/Washington | Reuters — Truckers blocking U.S-Canada border crossings risk hurting the auto industry and agriculture, the White House said on Wednesday as Ottawa urged an end to the 13-day demonstration against coronavirus mandates. After nearly two years of pandemic measures in many countries, opposition has sprung up in different […]

By Blair Gable Carlos Osorio Jarrett Renshaw

Cross-border supply chains still may face disruptions from vaccine mandates

Jan. 13, 2022 at 3:20 pm CST

CLARIFIED, Jan. 13 — Ottawa/Washington | Reuters — COVID-19 vaccine requirements for foreign truckers at the U.S.-Canada border still could cause supply-chain disruptions if both countries do not decide to allow exemptions, the head of the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) said Thursday. Canadian truck drivers who aren’t vaccinated may enter […]

By David Shepardson Steve Scherer

Thousands in B.C. still stranded by flood waters

Nov. 18, 2021 at 3:03 pm CST

Abbotsford | Reuters — Rescuers and workers in British Columbia were still trying to reach 18,000 people stranded on Thursday after floods and mudslides destroyed roads, houses and bridges in what could be the costliest natural disaster in the country’s history. Receding flood waters were helping rescue efforts, but the […]

By Jesse Winter

‘Containergeddon’: Supply crisis drives Walmart, rivals to hire own ships

Oct. 7, 2021 at 4:53 pm CDT

Los Angeles | Reuters — The Flying Buttress once glided across the oceans carrying vital commodities such as grain to all corners of the world. Now it bears a different treasure: Paw Patrol Movie Towers, Batmobile Transformers and Baby Alive Lulu Achoo dolls. The dry bulk cargo ship has been […]

By Jonathan Saul Lisa Baertlein siddharth-cavale

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