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The food currency program is entering its fourth year.
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Community food currency program returns

The program is an initiative from Direct Farm Manitoba

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Farmers’ markets across the province are again participating in a program meant to put fresh produce on the table for Manitobans who would ordinarily struggle to source it.  On June 27, Direct Farm Manitoba announced the 2023 launch of its Manitoba Community Food Currency Program.  The program partners with “community organizations who are already connected
'The success of Canada’s economy doesn’t truly rely on a few favoured firms that are able to capture regulators and curry favour with politicians.' – Gord Gilmour.
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editorial: Checks and balances needed

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There’s a deepening need in Canada to increase oversight into competition in our economy, as evidenced by the latest food-related scandal. Canada Bread, an arm of the Mexican multinational Groupo Bimbo, just agreed to pay a $50-million settlement for its part in a bread price-fixing scheme. It was a conspiracy that ran for 14 to
Ripe haskap berries ready for the picking at Haskap Prairie Orchards.
Crops, News

Local haskap growers launch national event 

Haskap Berry Days aims to educate the public about the crop and will run July 3-9

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Haskap berries will have their national moment in the spotlight this July, and a couple of local growers are spearheading the effort. Trena and Wayne Zacharias of West St. Paul have taken the lead on establishing Canada’s first national Haskap Berry Days. The event is designed to educate the public on the berry, which is
Most importantly is not the issue of whether bread should be classed as ultra-processed, it’s the levels of salt that could be more of a problem.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: In defence of bread

Store-bought bread might be considered ultra-processed, but that doesn’t mean it’s all bad

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Today’s sliced bread often contains so many more ingredients than what our ancestors ate that it is now considered an ultra-processed food. This doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad for us. There are many definitions of what makes a food ‘ultra-processed.’ The most common is the Nova classification, developed by researchers at the University of Sao
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Crops

Feds lift ‘pause’ on increases in crop chemical MRLs

New set of rules also calls for 'cosmetic' pesticide use to be banned on federal lands

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Proposals to increase a crop chemical’s maximum residue limits (MRLs) on foods and food crops in Canada can again seek federal approval, after being put on temporary hold two years ago. Among several other changes, a planned new package of federal regulatory amendments will put a gradual end to a “pause” imposed in August 2021
File photo of the produce section at a Canadian grocery store. (FatCamera/E+/Getty Images)
Markets

Canada retools inflation baskets with more focus on food, gas

Snowblowers and barbecues in, DVD players out

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Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s national statistics agency on Tuesday revealed new weights for the basket of goods and services in its Consumer Price Index, giving more prominence to changes in the prices of food and gasoline. The reweighting, which Statistics Canada carries out every year, has historically had only a marginal impact on the
At a time when food insecurity affects almost one in five Canadians, the latest funding presumes that food-insecure households are accessing food charities and that doing so resolves their food insecurity. Both assumptions are simply untrue.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Food charity will not fix food insecurity

Canada’s national food policy is at risk of enshrining a two-tiered food system

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Just two days after the release of the latest statistics on household food insecurity in Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced a new phase of the Local Food Infrastructure Fund. Launched in 2019 as part of Canada’s food policy, this program funds infrastructure and equipment for local food charity programs and is the only federal
Company executives argued that food price inflation was due to problems with global supply chains in the aftermath of the pandemic.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Grocery Code of Conduct should benefit Canadians and food industry

The code was promised following concerns over grocery inflation

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The cost of filling your grocery cart in Canada increased by 10.3 per cent in 2022 and is projected to increase by an additional five to seven per cent this year. In response to this and other concerns, the House of Commons standing committee on agriculture and agri-food initiated studies on food price inflation and
Arun Alexander, Canada’s deputy ambassador to the U.S.
Livestock, News

Proposed meat label bad news for North American livestock, meat supply chains: industry

If consumers wanted a voluntary label, they would already exist, Manitoba Pork’s Cam Dahl says

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Washington, D.C. — Canada doesn’t want a proposed American rule for voluntary meat labelling to disrupt North America’s integrated meat and livestock industry, and thus damage Canada’s meat sector. “While we, of course, support efforts related to truth in labelling for consumers, we are concerned about the potential real-world consequences of the proposed rule on
Letters: Burgers are not ‘junk food’
Comment, Letters

Letters: Burgers are not ‘junk food’

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In response to the Manitoba Co-operator article, ‘Rural kids fall short on nutrition,’ I have a few questions for the writers and editors of the May 4 edition:  1. How could anyone describe a meal that includes a modest amount of healthy bread, a proper serving of healthy beef and several fresh vegetables as “junk

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