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Food banks are anyone’s CERB, outside a pandemic. It’s as simple as that.
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Comment: The hungry Canada we don’t see

There’s always going to be need, and the pandemic has increased it

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Hunger is cruelly invisible in our society. Even though it may surround us, we hardly see it. But it’s always there. With the latest Hunger Count published by Food Banks Canada, we now have a better idea of how the pandemic has affected Canada’s food insecurity landscape. The news isn’t great. According to an internal
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Comment: The rise of the once-silent, once-hidden food worker

Workers have more political capital than they’ve ever had and they know it

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Workers across the food supply chain are expressing concerns about their livelihood. Recently, workers at the online grocery retailer Instacart went on strike for better conditions and higher wages. Instacart is a symbol of the new gig economy in food – you use a phone app to have someone else pick up your groceries and
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Comment: Running with the big Deere

Labour unrest and record profits underscore importance of equipment maker

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In an effort to maintain its enviable, 34-year run of labour peace, Deere & Co. and the United Auto Workers recently announced a deal to boost worker pay — by 20 per cent over five and six years, Deere said — to keep the iconic green-and-yellow machines rolling off its 11 assembly lines and through
Comment: Ivermectin misuse against COVID risks undermining use for other diseases
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Comment: Ivermectin misuse against COVID risks undermining use for other diseases

It can treat worm-based infections in poorer nations but its misuse is prompting unwarranted hesitation

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If you live in a western country, prior to the pandemic you probably hadn’t heard of the medicine ivermectin. It’s mainly a livestock dewormer in these nations, but with some very important uses as a human medication elsewhere. It’s a very effective treatment for a number of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). These are a group
Protectionism and isolation are seeing a resurgence and the federal government needs to push back.
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Comment: We need trade agreements that work

A top priority of the incoming government should be ensuring trade deals are respected

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We have had an election and now government priorities are being set and ministers who will implement the plan are being selected. What would you tell them if you had the chance? The pork sector is hoping that policy-makers are focusing on securing international access for our products. Trade is critically important to Manitoba’s hog
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Comment: Emissions report self-serving and built on false assumptions

Reductions won’t happen in a vacuum and producers will adapt their production systems

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In late September, Fertilizer Canada and Meyers Norris Penny (MNP) released their report Implications of a Total Emissions Reduction Target on Fertilizer. That report is a response to the December 2020 federal government announcement that it would “set a national emission reduction target (for 2030) of 30 per cent below 2020 levels from fertilizers and
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Comment: Biodiversity targets for 2030 under negotiation

World leaders are pondering new targets to protect flora and fauna in the coming years

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Putting biodiversity on a path to recovery is a defining challenge of this decade.” So begins the Kunming Declaration on biodiversity, adopted at the 15th UN biodiversity conference on October 13, 2021, otherwise known as COP15. The purpose of the online gathering was to get governments from around the world to agree a new set
It is common now to see discounted food products displayed prominently in a busy section of the store.
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Comment: Food rescuing going mainstream

Food buyers are more conscious of the cost of food waste than ever before

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Many have claimed that the term food waste should never be used, and there is some truth to that. Food is a precious thing, and is always of value to someone, somewhere. Associating food with the term “waste” can only imply that food can become worthless. We can compost it, use it to produce biofuels,
The urban-rural divide in support for Canada’s major parties has been around for generations, but has dramatically intensified over the past 25 years.
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Comment: The great societal divide

Canada’s split into two distinct political tribes, the rural and urban

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After all the ballots were counted in the recent Canadian federal election, was anyone surprised that Gudie Hutchings, incumbent Liberal MP in the district of Long Range Mountains, Newfoundland and Labrador, had been re-elected? After all, western Newfoundland has been a Liberal stronghold since the days of Joey Smallwood. Nevertheless, Hutchings has become something of
A hamburger made with a Mosa Meat patty.
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Comment: Why the cultured meat industry needs its own Elon Musk

Lab-grown meat looks like it could change the way animal protein is supplied to consumers

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Leonardo DiCaprio has just used his A-list magic powers yet again by investing in two American cultured meat startups, Aleph Farms and Mosa Meat, which use animal cells. This is the same actor who invested in a vegetable protein company even before the plant-based phenomenon was a thing. That company was Beyond Meat, now worth

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