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An image created by Nexu Science Communication, together with Trinity College in Dublin, shows a model structurally representative of a betacoronavirus, the type of virus linked to COVID-19. (Nexu Science Communication via Reuters)
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Canada to ease travel requirements as COVID cases decline

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Updated — Ottawa | Reuters — Canada will ease entry for fully vaccinated international travelers starting Feb. 28 as COVID-19 cases decline, allowing a rapid antigen test for travelers instead of a molecular one, officials said Tuesday. Antigen tests are cheaper than a molecular test and can provide results within minutes. The new measures, which
Protestors’ vehicles block the route leading from the Ambassador Bridge, linking Detroit and Windsor, on Feb. 8, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Osorio)
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More government action likely as border blockades hit trade

Manitoba's main crossing now also blocked

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Reuters — The shutdown of a vital U.S.-Canada trade route is knocking out automakers’ operations as the business impact from the two-week-old protests against Canada’s pandemic measures ramp up pressure on authorities to quell the demonstrations. The protests started as a “Freedom Convoy” occupying downtown Ottawa, opposing a vaccinate-or-quarantine mandate for cross-border truckers mirrored by
File photo of a view near the Canadian end of the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor and Detroit and is considered one of North America’s busiest trade routes. (Steven_Kriemadis/iStock/Getty Images)

Pandemic border protests strand cattle and car parts

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Ottawa | Reuters — Protests in Canada against vaccine mandates have disrupted two key U.S. border crossings, and are snarling hundreds of millions of dollars daily of trade, ranging from cattle to car parts. Demonstrations who at first demanded an end to federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates for cross-border truck drivers began Jan. 28 in the
A supplied aerial photo of vehicles blocking through traffic on Feb. 1, 2022 at the Canada-U.S. border crossing between Coutts, Alta. and Sweet Grass, Montana. (Photo courtesy Alberta RCMP)

Single lanes opened at Alberta border crossing, Mounties say

RCMP 'acknowledges the work that is being done'

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Single lanes have reopened in each direction at Alberta’s busiest Canada-U.S. trade window, allowing cross-border supply chains to resume, RCMP report. In response to “concerned citizens in the area of Coutts,” participants in a blockade of vehicles in place at the local border crossing “made the decision to open a lane going northbound and southbound
Markets, News

Widespread rains bring relief to Argentina’s grain crops

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Reuters – Heavy rainfall brought relief to Argentina’s main agricultural areas over the weekend of Jan. 15, interrupting several weeks of dry weather that led the Rosario grains exchange to trim its forecasts for both soybean and corn production. German Heinzenknecht, meteorologist at the Applied Climatology Consultancy (CCA), said the weekend showers came as expected,
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Markets facing uncertainty

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MarketsFarm — Feed grain markets in Western Canada are facing some uncertainty amid tight domestic supplies and reports of transportation issues bringing up corn from the United States. “It’s very strange,” said Susanne Leclerc of MarketMaster Ltd. in Alberta. “You see stories like that (reporting on feedlots running low on grain), then you talk to
Tracy Robinson. (TCEnergy.com)
Crops

CN names new CEO, easing tussle with investor

Former CP executive Tracy Robinson returns to rail

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Reuters — Canadian National Railway on Tuesday named industry veteran Tracy Robinson as its new chief executive officer, soothing a months-long tussle with its second-largest shareholder over leadership at the railroad operator. Robinson will replace Jean-Jacques Ruest, who announced his decision to step down from the role in October following investor demands for his exit
“Shortly after I started as an assistant grain inspector at the CGC, and I saw how things worked, I said to myself, ‘someday I would really like the opportunity to be the chief.’” – Derek Bunkowsky.
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Canada’s chief grain inspector knows the grain industry

Derek Bunkowsky says having been a farmer and grain buyer helps him do his job at the Canadian Grain Commission

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Derek Bunkowsky, chief grain inspector for Canada, is committed to fulfilling his statutory duties. After all, it’s his signature that is on the Canadian Grain Commission’s (CGC) Certificate Final guaranteeing the grade of every bulk export of Canadian grain leaving the country by ship. “I take that very seriously,” Bunkowsky said in an interview Dec.
Keefer Terminal (foreground) at the Port of Thunder Bay. (PortOfThunderBay.ca)
Crops, Other

Thunder Bay shipping season wraps up

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MarketsFarm — The last vessel of the shipping season will depart the Port of Thunder Bay on Friday. Grain handling volumes were down on the year, but increases in other categories helped limit the overall reduction in movement through the northern Lake Superior port. The 2021 navigation season will come to a close with the
Sea surface temperature anomalies over the equatorial Pacific Ocean for the week centred on Jan. 5, 2022. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)
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La Niña likely to continue into spring, U.S. forecaster says

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Reuters — La Nina conditions are likely to continue during the Northern Hemisphere spring, a U.S. government weather forecaster said on Thursday. The La Niña weather pattern, characterized by unusually cold temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, has a 67 per cent chance of persisting from March through May this year, the National Weather Service’s

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