Daily Network News

More News →

Tag Archives election

Left to right: Brenna Mahoney, general manager Keystone Agricultural Producers; Carson Callum, general manager, Manitoba Beef Producers; Cam Dahl, general manager, Manitoba Pork.
News, Other

Start engaging with your ag leadership

Producer groups set sights on looming election

By
With a provincial election coming at some point this year, producers should not wait to engage with their representatives. “From my perspective, the election has already begun,” said Cam Dahl, general manager with Manitoba Pork. Dahl was part of a panel of industry leaders talking about the impending election at an event hosted by the
Andre Fortin, shown here at right in September at a community fair at Shawville, Que., about 75 km northwest of Ottawa, is the Quebec Liberals’ new critic for agriculture and health. (Andre Fortin via Facebook)

Quebec Liberals’ new ag critic to also handle health file

Fortin to also handle regional development, forestry

By ,
A quick re-shuffling of shadow cabinet responsibilities will see the agriculture critic for Quebec’s provincial opposition Liberals now also handle the health file. The Liberals’ interim leader Marc Tanguay — who took over after the Nov. 7 resignation of Dominique Anglade following the Oct. 3 general election — announced Tuesday that Andre Fortin, the party’s
Quebec’s Agriculture Minister Andre Lamontagne speaks to the CAQ’s annual meeting in Drummondville in late May 2022. (Andre Lamontagne video screengrab via Facebook)
Crops, Other

Quebec ag minister cruises to re-election

Legault's CAQ scores bigger second majority

By ,
Quebec’s incumbent agriculture, food and fisheries minister will be returning to the province’s legislature as part of an even larger government caucus. Preliminary results in Monday’s provincial election put Francois Legault’s Coalition avenir Quebec (CAQ) in a solid majority government position with 90 of 125 seats, followed by Dominique Anglade’s Liberals, remaining in official opposition
Lisa Thompson. (LisathompsonMPP.ca)

Ontario ag minister returns in another Tory majority

Lisa Thompson retains seat in election

By ,
Ontario’s governing Progressive Conservatives will head back to the legislature with their incumbent agriculture minister at the caucus table. Lisa Thompson, Premier Doug Ford’s minister of agriculture, food and rural affairs since June last year, easily held her southwestern riding of Huron-Bruce in Thursday’s provincial election by a spread of 15,594 votes over Liberal challenger
Contact MCGA if you get more than one election ballot
News, News & Opinion

Contact MCGA if you get more than one election ballot

Despite its best efforts, sometimes a farmer will show up more than once on the Manitoba Canola Growers Association's checkoff list

By
If a Manitoba canola farmer received more than one ballot for the Manitoba Canola Growers Association’s (MCGA) election they should contact the MCGA’s office for clarification, MCGA executive director Delaney Ross Burtnack said in an interview Wednesday. One Manitoba farmer told the Manitoba Co-operator he received two ballots for the election underway, in which five
Green Party leader Annamie Paul makes an announcement following the federal election, at a park in Toronto on Sept. 27, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Chris Helgren)

Green Party chief quits

Paul calls leadership stint 'worst period' of her life

By ,
Ottawa | Reuters — Annamie Paul announced her resignation as head of Canada’s Green Party on Monday after losing in her own district in last week’s parliamentary election, stepping aside just under a year after becoming the nation’s first Black leader of a mainstream national party. Paul, 48, said she felt she was never truly
Parking lot signage outside an advance polling station in Winnipeg’s Tuxedo Industrial area on Sept. 12, 2021. (Dave Bedard photo)

Federal agriculture minister leading on election night

CPC, NDP ag critics prevail; BQ critic in tight race

By ,
Canada’s incumbent agriculture minister was among the MPs expected to hold onto their seats in Monday’s snap federal election, in which Justin Trudeau’s Liberals return with a second minority government. As of Tuesday morning just after midnight CT, Marie-Claude Bibeau was leading in her Sherbrooke, Que.-area riding of Compton-Stanstead by a spread of over 3,300
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet, left to right, Green Party Leader Annamie Paul, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, and Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole take part in the federal election English-language leaders’ debate September 9.
News, Other

Trudeau tries to boost re-election campaign after inconclusive debate

The debate, widely criticized for its format, was largely seen as inconclusive

By ,
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau entered the crucial last stage of his re-election campaign after an inconclusive leaders’ debate late last week, in which he failed to land many blows on his main rival. Trudeau, who heads a minority government that depends on the opposition to pass legislation, called the Sept. 20 election, two years
Voters head to the polls with the pandemic, climate change top of mind 
Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Voters head to the polls with the pandemic, climate change top of mind 

It’s likely to be another urban-rural split at the ballot box

By
Amid layers of uncertainty, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is asking Canadians to trust him once again in the federal election now underway. Though it’s been just 664 days since the governing Liberals won a minority in 2019, Trudeau clearly sees an opportunity to secure a third electoral victory and a second majority. From sunny ways

AgCanadaTV

AgCanadaTV: Inflation puts tighter squeeze on farmers

Sponsored By:
More Videos →

Cyber-Savvy Farmer

Glacier Farmmedia Podcast

Latest Market News

More Market News →