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Manitoba Municipalities Receive Green Project Money

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Twelve Manitoba municipalities will split $112,000 in grants to develop plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preserving the environment. The municipalities will use the funds to develop action plans to conserve energy through municipal services. That could involve redesigning municipal buildings for energy efficiency, converting to geothermal heating or simply switching to low-energy light
Crops

Manitobans Urged To Buckle Up

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RCMP surveys of seatbelt use in rural Manitoba show a percentage aren’t bothering to buckle up. Visual surveys done by police officers in unmarked cars find as many as one in three rural residents in some locations fail to fasten their seatbelts. Survey numbers show where 92 per cent of motor vehicle occupants were wearing
Livestock

Manitoba Cattle Dealer Under Investigation

AManitoba livestock broker is being investigated by the RCMP after the company abruptly ceased operating last month and told producers it could not pay them for their cattle. G&M Livestock sent a letter dated Feb. 23 to producers saying it “has ceased operations and is unable to pay any of its unsecured creditors.” The letter
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Private Farming Lifts Output In Cuba Rice Province

Cuba’s most important rice-producing province should more than double output this year as new private farms and service cooperatives, improved organization and higher local prices kick in, a senior provincial official told Reuters March 1. President Raul Castro’s cash-strapped government has embarked on a program to cut food imports, and rice, which is a Cuban
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National Science Agency Axes Food Research

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Agricultural scientists and farm groups are expressing dismay at a decision by a federal research agency to stop funding food research. The decision by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council sends a negative message, both at home and abroad, that Canada is not interested in research which a hungry world urgently needs, say researchers
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Easter Wants Transport Canada At Ag Committee

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If Transport Canada declines another invitation to appear before the House of Commons’ agriculture committee, it will be subpoenaed to appear, according to Liberal Agriculture Critic Wayne Easter. “The fact of the matter is when a parliamentary committee invites a department to come before it they’re expected to come,” Easter told reporters Dec. 13 during
Grain Markets

Rice Prices Stay Relatively Low

SINGAPORE/REUTERS Ample rice supplies from top exporters Thailand and Vietnam should keep prices in check through the first quarter, sparing Asia’s staple food from the rally in other commodity prices. Benchmark Thai rice dropped 13 per cent in 2010, while U.S. wheat futures climbed around 50 per cent as adverse weather hit key producing regions.
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In Brief… – for Jan. 6, 2011

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Road language:Manitoba will be one of the first provinces to begin using standardized terms to describe winter driving conditions, Infrastructure and Transportation Minister Steve Ashton has announced. New standardized definitions and colour schemes are now being used on the province’s road information website along with other improvements. The new colour schemes on maps were chosen
Livestock

Man Shot In Butchering Incident

St. Pierre Jolys RCMP have been investigating a shooting incident involving three Winnipegarea men going to butcher livestock in the La Barriere Park area east of La Salle. According to RCMP, the three men, all well known to each other, were at a shop Nov. 20 on Waverley Road in the R.M. of Ritchot, preparing
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U.S. Bill Boosts School Lunch Funding

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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed and sent to President Barack Obama a bill that boosts funding for the school lunch program by $4.5 billion through 2020 and bans “junk” food from school buildings. Backers said it would be the first real increase in reimbursement rates for schools in 30 years and a step

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