Politics & Science

Beijing is preparing to allow more sources of imported meat in an effort to overcome potential pork shortages as African swine fever curbs domestic hog herds, according to the China…

The Canadian Meat Council (CMC) and the North American Meat Institute are working together to smooth trade, the leaders of the two organizations said during a panel discussion at CMC’s…

Canadian scientists are working to standardize the collection of data related to sow mortality in an effort to more fully understand the cause by Bruce Cochrane –

Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced‎ that the Government of Canada has implemented the new regulations necessary to strengthen the Advance Payments Program On May 1, 2019, the Government…

China plans to boost inspections of imported Canadian meats and meat products as bilateral trade relations deteriorate, Canadian government officials said on Tuesday (June 4), a move meat industry executives…

Chris Bittle, Member of Parliament – St. Catharines, on behalf of Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, announced an investment of up to $1,072,335 to the Canadian Meat Council…

Canada took a first step toward ratifying a new North American trade agreement on Monday just three days ahead of U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s trip to Ottawa to discuss…

Justin Trudeau has been advised by senior business figures to engage in the same pressure politics in Canada’s dispute with the Chinese government that are being used against it —…

Maintaining and expanding market access for Canada’s high-quality agricultural products means greater export opportunities, the creation of good, middle-class jobs, and more money in the pockets of Canadian farmers Building…

Food insecurity in Nunavut has gotten worse since the introduction of the Nutrition North program in 2011, according to a study published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal by…

Canada has lifted a long list of tariffs now that the United States has scrapped its 25 per cent tariff on steel and 10 per cent on aluminum Mexico has…

The same week U.S. President Donald Trump announced sweeping increases on tariffs against Chinese goods, Chinese buyers dropped orders for 3,247 metric tonnes of U.S. pork – the biggest cancellation…

Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says she used a G20 ministers’ meeting in Japan to press her Chinese counterpart for the evidence behind Beijing’s bans on Canadian canola by Mike Blanchfield…

The agricultural pedagogy of a global trade disruption. It’s a lofty, detached way of talking about the current conditions that are affecting lives and testing the fiscal thresholds of many…

Agriculture ministers from the countries who make up the G20 traveled to Niigata, Japan, this week, including Canada’s Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau The purpose of the meeting for…

The Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry heard Thursday morning from witnesses with expertise in soil health The Honourable Robert Black, who joined the Senate last year after a…

The Vice President of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute suggests it is now unlikely the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement will be ratified by all three countries until some time next year…

The federal agriculture minister says that department officials have told her the Chinese government has suspended the export permits of two Canadian pork exporters, both based in Quebec by Rod…

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s whirlwind visit to Ottawa this weekend has offered the Liberal government a rare chance to trumpet a strong international alliance in the face of unyielding…

Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, and Raj Saini, Member of Parliament (Kitchener Centre), announced a repayable contribution of up to $10 million to Conestoga Meats under the Canadian…