Reading Time: < 1 minute A project to expand the Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) Company's Port Windsor terminal got a federal cash boost yesterday.
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Feds pledge up to $26.3 million for expansion at Port Windsor
Project expected to significantly increase ADM's capacity at the Great Lakes port
Feds earmark $400,000 to tofu production automation
Quebec tofu manufacturers have seen high demand in recent years
Reading Time: 2 minutes A Quebec tofu-maker has received a $400,000 federal loan to help automate its organic tofu production facility.
Canadian Grain Commission chief’s term extended
NFU calls on Chorney to uphold mandate to act in producers’ interests
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) chief commissioner Doug Chorney has seen his term extended as the search continues for his replacement, CGC said today.
Senate speaker rules members bullied other senators over Bill C-234
Senators threatened retaliation if colleagues didn't "give way", attempted to constrain them in their duties, says speaker
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hot-tempered Conservative senators' actions over lightning rod Bill C-234 constituted intimidation, the Senate speaker ruled yesterday.
"Senators have explained how they felt threatened and intimidated in the performance of their duties, here where we should model the best behaviour for our fellow citizens," said speaker Raymonde Gagné in her decision yesterday.
Canada’s Indo-Pacific ag office takes step forward
The joint CFIA-AAFC venture is part of a plan to diversify exports to the Indo-Pacific region
Reading Time: < 1 minute The federal government took another step yesterday toward establishing its Indo-Pacific Agriculture and Agri-Food Office (IPAAO) in Manila, Philippines, with the appointment of its first executive director. Federal ag minister Lawrence MacAulay announced that Diedrah Kelly had been appointed to the post. Kelly is a long-time representative of Global Affairs Canada and recently was Canada’s […] Read more
Ottawa lines up with farmers on right-to-repair
Feds to call for owners to be able to repair their own equipment
Reading Time: 3 minutes The federal government says it’s siding with Canadian farmers on the right-to-repair debate. An announcement this week from the federal government called for an adjustment to the Competition Act that would prevent manufacturers from refusing to provide the means of device and product repair in an “anti-competitive manner.” That declaration came in the government’s 2023 […] Read more
Opposition accuses feds of ‘playing games’ on Bill C-234
Conservative shadow minister says new Liberal senators set bill up for failure
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Conservative shadow minister for Agriculture, Agri-Food and Food Security has accused the Liberal government of “playing games” with a bill that would grant Canadian farmers a carbon price exemption for natural gas and propane used for barn heating and grain drying.
Canola sector gets research boost
Reading Time: < 1 minute The federal government is putting up $9 million to drive the sustainable growth of Canada’s canola sector. The funding comes from the AgriScience Program—Clusters Component, an initiative under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership and was announced today (Nov. 14) in Winnipeg by Lawrence MacAulay, the federal agriculture minister. “This new Canola Cluster will build on […] Read more
Senate votes down C-234 amendments
Changes would have pulled barn and greenhouse heating from carbon price exemptions
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Senate voted today to reject amendments that would have seen barn and greenhouse heating removed from Bill C-234. In a sitting on the afternoon of Nov. 7, senators voted no to the adoption of amendments made by the committee for agriculture and forestry. Twenty-eight voted yes, and four abstained. The Senate then voted to […] Read more
Carbon tax exemption bill C-234 clears Senate committee
Divided senators defeated an amendment to make it more difficult to extend the bill's sunset clause
Reading Time: 2 minutes In final committee deliberations on Oct. 24, an amendment that would make it more difficult to extend the bill’s sunset clause was defeated with a tied vote.