New Brunswick's incumbent agriculture minister and opposition ag critic are bound for a legislature under new management following Monday night's election.
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Organic operators down, acreage up: new industry stats
The number of Canadian organic producers and processors fell by nearly 300 in 2022 according to the latest industry stats. “There’s people coming in and there’s people going out,” said Tia Loftsgard, executive director of the Canadian Organic Trade Association (COTA).
P.E.I. ag minister, ag critics re-elected
Prince Edward Island's incumbent agriculture minister and opposition agriculture critics prevailed in Monday night's provincial election, in which incumbent premier Dennis King's Tories were returned with a majority. Darlene Compton, King's agriculture minister since last summer and his incumbent deputy premier, won re-election Monday for the Progressive Conservatives in her district of Belfast-Murray River. Compton,[...]
Canada's second-largest pension fund reveals new climate targets
Toronto | Reuters -- Canada's No. 2 pension fund Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec announced plans on Tuesday to completely exit oil production by the end of 2022 and reduce carbon intensity by 60 per cent by 2030. As part of the same plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, Montreal-based Caisse plans[...]
P.E.I. dairyman named provincial ag and land minister
A Prince Edward Island dairy farmer who unseated the province's incumbent premier on election night is the new provincial minister for agriculture and land, and for justice and public safety. Bloyce Thompson, the new Progressive Conservative MLA for the district of Stanhope-Marshfield, was sworn in Thursday as a member of incoming Premier Dennis King's nine-member[...]
New Brunswick ag, fisheries files remarried
New Brunswick's incoming minority Progressive Conservative government will again have one minister handling the province's agriculture and aquaculture files. Premier Blaine Higgs on Friday announced Gagetown-Petitcodiac MLA Ross Wetmore as his minister of agriculture, aquaculture and fisheries. Wetmore, 65, replaces Andrew Harvey and Benoit Bourque, who had handled the agriculture and fisheries portfolios respectively on[...]
Photo-finish election claims New Brunswick's ag minister
New Brunswick's incumbent agriculture minister is among the Liberal cabinet members knocked out of office in Monday night's too-close-to-call provincial election. Final results from Elections New Brunswick put Progressive Conservative candidate Robert Gauvin ahead of Agriculture, Mines and Rural Affairs Minister Wilfred Roussel by a spread of 99 votes in his northeastern riding of Shippagan-Lameque-Miscou.[...]
Ontario ag minister downed in Tories' election win
The Ontario Liberals' minister of agriculture, food and rural affairs is among the election-night casualties as the province's Progressive Conservatives get set to form a majority government. As of midnight CT Friday, Doug Ford's Tories were elected or leading in 76 of 124 ridings, followed by Andrea Horwath's New Democrats in 40 and Kathleen Wynne's[...]
Potato famine (variety) reaches Ontario
The infamous spud that sparked the mid-1800s Irish potato famine is growing this summer in a potato patch run by the University of Guelph.The variety, called "Lumper," was among about 120 trial potato varieties shown Aug. 12 at U of G's Elora Research Station as part of this year's potato research field day. Called a[...]
New Brunswick trial testing biodiesel
The government of New Brunswick's central vehicle agency is conducting a $215 000 biodiesel trial that will include the construction and operation of a biodiesel dispensing facility in the community of Woodstock. The project is part of the New Brunswick Climate Change Action Plan program aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the province. "We[...]
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