Murray Wood: A star-crossed leader is beset by floor-crossing MPs
Murray Wood says Pierre Poilievre has suffered some bad timing in his career as Conservative leader, but the question is...
Tag Archives: Agriculture
Quarantined B.C. farms where over 1,000 mink died resume breeding stock
VICTORIA - Two mink farms that are still quarantined after COVID-19 outbreaks have begun annual breeding programs along with seven other farms in British Columbia. The Agriculture Ministry said the pr...
Mar 17, 2021
B.C. and Washington state focus on public outreach to wipe out invasive giant hornet
VICTORIA - Public outreach will be key to tracking Asian giant hornets this year as many of the insects were found by members of the public in 2020, officials in British Columbia and Washington state ...
Mar 17, 2021
Plans readied by B.C. and Washington state to wipe out invasive giant hornet
VANCOUVER - Officials in British Columbia and Washington state will release their battle plan today to try to wipe out Asian giant hornets. Also dubbed the murder hornet, the invasive wasps have been ...
Mar 17, 2021
Officials in B.C., Washington state team up against invasive giant hornets
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Officials with the British Columbia and Washington state agriculture departments along with U.S. federal agencies are teaming up to trap, track and destroy invasive Asian giant hornet...
Mar 16, 2021
Canada one step closer to being negligible-risk country for mad cow disease
OTTAWA - The federal minister of agriculture says Canada is an important step closer to being recognized as a negligible-risk country for mad cow disease. Marie-Claude Bibeau says in a news release th...
Mar 12, 2021
'A frightened workforce': Union worries as Olymel reopens after COVID-19 shutdown
CALGARY - Some employees of a central Alberta pork plant that shut down due to COVID-19 are afraid to go back to work, their union president says. Olymel's facility in Red Deer was shuttered Feb. 15 b...
Mar 04, 2021
Olymel announces gradual reopening of pork plant in Red Deer, Alta., after outbreak
A pork processing plant in central Alberta has announced it has been given the green light to gradually reopen after a COVID-19 outbreak forced it to shut down for two weeks. The Olymel facility in Re...
Mar 03, 2021
'Door is open:' Ottawa ready to help pork producers affected by Olymel shutdown
The federal government says the door is open to help producers affected by the closure of a central Alberta pork plant where an outbreak of COVID-19 has infected hundreds of workers and resulted in th...
Mar 02, 2021
'You look after things the way you want to look after them,' says veteran rancher on Ag Day
For Agriculture Day in Saskatchewan, an Arcola-area rancher is sharing a story about how far he'd go to get the job done. Chris Lees was in the middle of calving season when the polar vortex hit, brin...
Feb 23, 2021 (Chris Lees)
Canadian blueberries pose no peril to American producers, U.S. trade commission says
WASHINGTON - The panel that evaluates international trade disputes in the United States has squashed a complaint about Canadian blueberries. Recent spikes in blueberry imports from countries including...
Feb 11, 2021
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Sarah Mills: A lifetime smoking ban in the UK may be a step too far
Sarah Mills says there are great health-care costs associated with smoking, but those costs are also associated with obe...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 23
Evan talks on Thursday's show about the RM of Sherwood's AI data centre now approved to be built, Saskatoon mayor Cynthi...