Tag Archives: agriculture

Canadian livestock groups say producers are suffering since COVID-19 outbreaks have caused closures and slowdowns at meat-processing plants across the country. A backlog of animals...

HIGH RIVER, Alta. - A moment of silence to honour a worker who died of COVID-19 was held at a southern Alberta meat-packer Wednesday as news broke that the father of another plant ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced more than $77 million to help keep workers in the food-processing industry safe, but at least one union says the cash doesn't address the real problem....

OTTAWA - Add chickens, mushrooms and potatoes to the ever-longer list of products being purchased by the federal government to combat the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. A program being heralded as t...

OTTAWA - The federal government moved Tuesday to ease multiple pressures in Canada's agriculture industry created by the COVID-19 pandemic with the promise of a $252-million aid package. The funds fal...

HIGH RIVER, Alta. - The husband of a meat-packing worker who died last month remembered her as "a wonderful wife" who indulged him as he expressed his grief at a memorial Monday, the sa...

CALGARY - Workers are to return Monday to a beef processing plant south of Calgary that was closed for two weeks because of a COVID-19 outbreak. Cargill said in a statement Wednesday that it...

WASHINGTON - The federal government has betrayed Canada's dairy processors by allowing the United States to activate the new North American trade deal on July 1 - a month earlier than t...

Organizers of Canadian Western Agribition say this year’s show will go ahead. In an open letter posted on Twitter on Saturday, they say the show has weathered recessions, droughts and other vari...

CALGARY - An organization that works with immigrants says the temporary closure of a large slaughterhouse in southern Alberta has left many among its largely Filipino workforce fea...