Canada-U.K. free trade talks comatose

Canada-U.K. free trade talks comatose

TRADE | Upcoming U.K. election offers little short-term hope for revived negotiation

The two countries have been trying to negotiate a revised U.K.-Canada free trade agreement that would replace the temporary deal established in light of Britain’s exit from the European Union. “Brexit” cut the U.K. out of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the EU. That three-year deal was based on Canadian principles and the wording of CETA.




Private Dollars Needed To Increase Ag Research

More private dol – lars need to be invested in agri – culture research if governments are not willing to step up, a University of Manitoba agribusiness professor told the recent Special Crops Symposium in Winnipeg. It is hard to get governments and MPs to listen to producers’ need to increase funds to research because,

Food Price Spike Shows Reform Urgent

The current spike in food prices is a repeat of the 2007-08 crisis and indicates urgent reforms are needed to a stressed global agricultural system, John Beddington, the U.K. government’s chief scientist said on Jan. 24. “In 2007-08 everyone said this was just a one-off because we have been looking at price declines for 30

Could We Have One Too?

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR “Pickles, no garlic.” That was one of the items on the shopping list, an unusually long one before Christmas when those of us blessed to live in Canada need to worry about having too much food, not too little. Among the brands was one which was almost a dollar cheaper, which


Organic Farming May Help Meet Climate Goals

The conversion of all U. K. farmland to organic farming would achieve the equivalent carbon savings to taking nearly one million cars off the road, the Soil Association said Nov. 26. Britain’s largest organic certification body, issuing results of a research project, said on average organic farming produces 28 per cent higher levels of soil