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A person shops at the North Mart grocery store in Iqaluit, Nunavut July 28.

Cold and hungry

Northern residents say rising food costs creating new and growing economic challenges

By Rod Nickel August 23, 2022

Reuters – In Canada’s remote north, residents have long paid dearly for food, and rising prices have worsened an already dire situation, exposing the vulnerability of one of the world’s biggest exporters of grains and meat. Communities in Nunavut have no roads to connect them with each other, forcing them to rely on fresh food

File photo of the bridge to Apex, an outlying area of Iqaluit. (Henry Baillie-Brown/iStock/Getty Images)

Other, Weather

Iqaluit declares state of emergency over water shortage

By GFM Network News, Ismail Shakil August 13, 2022

Ottawa | Reuters — The northern Canadian city of Iqaluit declared a state of emergency on Friday after scarce rain this year left water levels in the local Apex River at a four-decade low. Iqaluit warned it may not have enough water in its reservoir to sustain its population of about 7,800 when a freeze-up

File photo of a rainy day in Iqaluit. (Wildnerdpix/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets, Weather

Cold and hungry: Food inflation bites Canada’s North

'It's really expensive to do business here'

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel August 8, 2022

Iqaluit | Reuters –– In Canada’s remote North, residents have long paid dearly for food, and rising prices have worsened an already dire situation, exposing the vulnerability of one of the world’s biggest exporters of grains and meat. Communities in Nunavut — the largest of the three territories that make up Canada’s northernmost region —

File photo of a trumpeter swan in springtime on Marsh Lake, southeast of Whitehorse. (Scalia Media/iStock/Getty Images)

Livestock

Northern egg harvesters cautioned over avian flu

High-path H5N1 found in wild birds in Yukon

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News June 8, 2022

Residents of Canada’s northern territories who harvest migratory wild birds and their eggs this spring are urged to take precautions as highly pathogenic avian influenza makes its way northward. The Yukon government’s animal health unit on May 27 reported confirmed cases of high-path H5N1 avian flu in two wild waterfowl carcasses. “Spring migration is ongoing

A City of Iqaluit worker fills a water truck at the Sylvia Grinnell River after authorities ordered the Nunavut capital’s 7,000 residents not to drink the city’s water due to suspected fuel contamination, on Oct. 14, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Casey Lessard)

Other

Iqaluit confirms ‘exceedingly high levels’ of fuel in water supply

Water not safe for cooking or drinking, city says

By GFM Network News October 16, 2021

Reuters –– The Canadian city of Iqaluit said lab results confirmed that fuel had entered its water supply, officials announced Friday. Analysis of samples from one of the city’s water tanks found “exceedingly high levels of various fuel components,” Amy Elgersma, Iqaluit’s chief administrative officer, said, adding it was likely diesel or kerosene. Residents in

Crops

Churchill shipping resumes but grain still on back burner

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin July 11, 2019

MarketsFarm — The first cargo ship in two years left the northern Manitoba port of Churchill on Wednesday, moving supplies to communities in Nunavut. Rehabilitation efforts at North America’s only deep-water Arctic port are still underway, but there are expectations business through the facility will eventually include grain as well. OmniTrax, the previous owner of

The Port of Churchill in 2015. (CNS file photo by Jade Markus)

Crops

Ottawa budgets $117 million to reconnect Churchill

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff September 15, 2018

The federal government’s latest commitment to restore and maintain rail service from the eastern Prairies up to Hudson Bay will involve $117 million over the next 10 years. Ottawa’s pledge follows the Aug. 31 announcement of a deal for a private/public partnership group to buy the Hudson Bay Railway line, which has been closed since

The Port of Churchill in 2015. (CNS Canada photo by Jade Markus)

Crops

Deal in principle announced for Churchill railway, port

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 30, 2018

The federal government has announced an “agreement in principle” which will see a new partnership fix up northern Manitoba’s washed-out Hudson Bay Railway and take over the mothballed Port of Churchill. Details of the agreement were slim at best in the government’s announcement Wednesday, except to say the buying group slated to take over the

U.S. grains: Corn futures edge up, soybeans sag on improving US crop ratings

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures up, hogs mixed

Meatpackers rethink beef exports to US after Trump tariffs, industry lobby says

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Corn futures edge up, soybeans sag on improving US crop ratings

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures up, hogs mixed

Meatpackers rethink beef exports to US after Trump tariffs, industry lobby says

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Cold and hungry

Iqaluit declares state of emergency over water shortage

Cold and hungry: Food inflation bites Canada’s North

Northern egg harvesters cautioned over avian flu

Iqaluit confirms ‘exceedingly high levels’ of fuel in water supply

Churchill shipping resumes but grain still on back burner

Ottawa budgets $117 million to reconnect Churchill

Deal in principle announced for Churchill railway, port

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