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Maple Leaf Foods profit falls 24 per cent

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Canadian food processor Maple Leaf Foods reported a 24 per cent drop in quarterly profit Oct. 31, after the company took a $13-million charge in the value of its hogs. Net earnings for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 fell to $32.6 million, or 22 cents per share, from $43 million, or 29 cents, a
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From cleaning stippled ceilings to stoneware

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Dear Reena, Our daughters are backpacking in Europe and they have asked us how to remove the smell from their microfibre towels. Washing them (likely by hand) is not doing the trick. — Thanks, Guy Guy, The first suggestion for the girls is to leave the towels on a line to dry after each use
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Full steam ahead for Portage food processor

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The founder of a Portage la Prairie company that uses culled fruits and veggies for baby foods, soups and other foods expects to create 60 new jobs after receiving a $2.5-million federal government loan. Kelly Beaulieu said her company, Canadian Prairie Garden Purée Products, will also utilize large amounts of “less than eye perfect” fruits
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Recipe Swap, April 26, 2012

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A Winnipeg home economist and founder of Fruit Share has just released a new book on harvesting, preserving and using locally grown fruits that includes 150 recipes

More fruits of her labour As a little girl, Getty Stewart loved all the fresh fruit growing on her parents’ farm in Germany. After emigrating to Canada with her family, she quickly learned to love the taste of Prairie-grown fruit too. Later living in Winnipeg, she continued to buy local fruit at farmers’ markets and
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ICE set to introduce five new U.S. grain and oilseed contracts

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Reuters / ICE Futures US intends to begin offering five new U.S. grain and oilseed contracts, pending review by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The contracts include U.S. corn, wheat, soybeans, soybean meal and soybean oil, IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) announced. Futures contracts are slated to be available on May 14, with options available May 15. “These contracts
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Recipe Swap, April 12, 2012

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Asparagus reigns as a favourite It sounds like the name of a Roman ruler, and for a while it dominates like one in our gardens and fridges too. I’m talking about asparagus, of course, which may show earlier and oftener this spring. As those who grow it know, you can be picking every day as
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Recipe Swap, March 1, 2012

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“Myth information” When it comes to food, we all have our likes, dislikes, preferences and prejudices. Many of us also live (and eat) by our “food myths.” These can be simple “dietary must-dos” like, “you must take minerals and supplements to stay healthy” or, “you must avoid carbs if you want to lose weight.” Some
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Maple Leaf Foods Adopts Rights Plan

WINNIPEG/REUTERS Maple Leaf Foods has adopted a shareholder rights plan and its chief executive is acquiring nearly a third of its shares, prompting speculation a takeover attempt could be in the works. The Canadian food processor denied that the poison pill was in response to any actual or anticipated transaction, saying it merely replaced a
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Recipe Swap – for Jul. 7, 2011

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In this place it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place.” So said the Red Queen to Alice in Lewis Carroll’sThrough The Looking Glassas Alice made her way across the patchwork fields, “a great huge game of chess that’s being played – all over the world.” It was pure
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Recipe Swap – for Jun. 30, 2011

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If you have a few minutes and access to the Internet, I think you’ll find a new web-based health and wellness assessment tool an interesting exercise. It’s maybe an eye-opener too. Last week the Manitoba government launched Health e-Plan, a secure interactive online site to help you get a better idea about your health status

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