Sarah Mills: Trying to score World Cup tickets is a fool's game under FIFA
Sarah Mills spent five hours and 50 minutes in a queue for FIFA's general sale for World Cup tickets on Wednesday, only ...
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Canada's mink breeders increasing security to protect animals and industry from COVID
HALIFAX - Canada's mink breeders are increasing safety measures on their farms to avoid the devastating COVID-19 outbreaks that have plagued their European and American counterparts. Infections ...
Oct 22, 2020
Trudeau says dairy farmers facing new losses due to CUSMA will be compensated
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday he is committed to honouring past promises to compensate dairy farmers who have suffered losses due to trade deals. Trudeau made the comment in resp...
Oct 20, 2020
Percy Schmeiser, Saskatchewan farmer known for fight against Monsanto, dies at 89
Percy Schmeiser, a Saskatchewan farmer who became famous during his legal battle with biotech giant Monsanto, has died. John Schmeiser said his father died quietly Tuesday afternoon at the age of 89.&...
Oct 14, 2020
Sexualized onions: Facebook lifts ban on Newfoundland advertisement for seeds
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Facebook has reversed its decision to prevent a seed company in Newfoundland from using a photo of a pile of onions, which the social media giant had deemed "overtly sexual." ...
Oct 07, 2020
Feds reveal details of $35M fund to help make farms safer in COVID-19 pandemic
OTTAWA - Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says some Canadian farmers can now apply for emergency funding to protect their workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The program will subsidize farms...
Oct 05, 2020
After dairy and metals, U.S. trade hawks setting sights on foreign berries, produce
WASHINGTON, Wash. - After waging war on Canadian dairy, steel and aluminum, Donald Trump's White House appears to be setting its sights on new foreign trade invaders: blueberries and raspberries. ...
Oct 05, 2020
'A lot of positives:' Western farmers wrap up harvest early, look to improved prices
EDMONTON - A long, lingering fall across much of the Prairies is putting crops in the bin early this year, allowing farmers to take advantage of improving prices. "We'll be having Thanksgiving supper ...
Oct 01, 2020
'The thing you do around here:' Prairie fall suppers adjust to COVID-19 reality
Vehicles lined up more than three kilometres along a rural Manitoba road on the last Sunday afternoon of September as their occupants waited to grab a traditional Ukrainian feast in a brown takeout ba...
Sep 30, 2020
B.C. migrant, undocumented workers rally for permanent residency program
VANCOUVER - Migrant workers and advocates called for a "just recovery" from the COVID-19 pandemic during a digital rally on Saturday. The pandemic has shown how heavily Canada relies on migrant a...
Sep 19, 2020
Sask. farmers making 'significant' progress on 2020 harvest
Farmers harvesting crops across the province made big gains thanks to warm and dry weather. The provincial crop report said 62 per cent of crops in Saskatchewan have been combined, up from 43 per cent...
Sep 17, 2020
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