Innovation at the heart of Canadian agriculture
REGINA—Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains says he wants to make innovation a core Canadian value because it’s “the path to growth, the path that leads to a stronger middle class and higher quality jobs.” Canada’s agricultural equipment manufacturers have known this for years. In fact, innovation is at the heart of Canadian […]
U.S. lobbyists cheesed off over proposed Canadian dairy policy
Lobby groups in the United States, European Union, and three other countries are leaning on their governments to launch trade challenges against Canada, arguing that proposed changes to help Canada’s dairy farmers compete with diafiltered milk imports amount to a violation of trade law. Canadian dairy producers and processors are working to ratify a national […]
Politics this morning: Finance Committee to hold emergency meeting on CPP
Today is Friday, Sept. 9 In case you missed it (ICYMI): Yesterday, the National Energy Board (NEB) launched a 30-day public consultation process that will gather input from all Canadians wishing to provide feedback about a draft Board Order that would require pipeline companies to make their emergency management programs public by March 31, 2017. Happening today: […]
MPs set to tackle GMOs this fall
Members of the House Agriculture Committee are planning to tackle the issue of genetically modified animals in the upcoming fall sitting of Parliament, though it’s still unclear when and how they’ll do it. The House will almost certainly confront some of the issues around genetically modified foods before the year’s end one way or another, with […]
Ease up on export bank’s Russia-ban: Business groups
Canadian businesses are calling on the government to reverse orders to Canada’s export credit agency that stop it from supporting trade with Russia, saying it has cost them millions of dollars in business. But the government and official opposition are standing firm, saying the move is an extension of the more targeted sanctions against the country […]
G20 summit: Bringing homegrown solutions to global challenges
Leaders from the most powerful developed and emerging states will descend on Hangzhou, China in a few days to deliberate on the state of the world’s economy. The G20 Forum—a brainchild of our own former prime minister (then finance minister) Paul Martin—was established nearly 20 years ago in response to the Asian financial crisis that […]
Changes needed for railways to meet agricultural needs
Ideal seeding conditions, near-record soil moisture and a good growing season seem to be aligning to give Canadian farmers a whopper of a crop this fall harvest. Whether an outsized crop could create another round of delivery slowdowns—as happened three years ago—is top of mind to rail executives. It’s the sole reason outgoing Canadian Pacific CEO […]
CSI poultry: lobbyists win rare summer committee meeting on illicit chicken imports, dairy
It looks like Canada’s dairy and chicken farmers will have to sit tight over the summer as losses from American imports continue to pile up. Lobbyists for those industries, which form the backbone of Canada’s supply-managed agriculture sector, have caught the attention of MPs and the Canadian press over a pair of seemingly obscure regulatory […]
How agricultural research reduces poverty
On the dusty backroads of Kenya, farmers with one or two acres of land talked about some of the difficulties they face: a disease in cassava, inadequate fodder for their animals, degraded soils and moulds in maize. And in two world-class research centres nearby, scientists from the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research talked about […]
Politics this morning: Trudeau to make youth council announcement
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