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Traditional or patriarchal social values can still exist in rural communities, which can lead to silence about abuse amongst victims and community members who suspect or know about the abuse.
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Rural women and violence: What we don’t talk about

Women in rural settings face unique challenges in unhealthy relationships

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Why doesn’t she just leave? It’s a question many may ask themselves about a woman they know or suspect is in an unhealthy or violent relationship. Concern over safety, housing and finances are just some of the barriers women in unhealthy relationships have to overcome in order to leave. And for women living in rural […] Read more
Competition for available investors dollars is fierce in the Canadian agri-tech space.
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Entries accepted to Ontario agriculture innovation pitch competition

Competition has helped many innovators commercialize their products

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Entries are now being accepted for the second annual Ontario Agri-Tech Pitch Competition. The event offers promising early-stage Ontario ag innovation start-ups the opportunity to pitch their innovations to a panel of judges, connect with potential investors and use coaching and mentorship services to hone their business strategies. Why it matters: Competition for available investors […] Read more
Terry Youzwa, a Saskatchewan farmer, volunteer and Ukrainian cultural ambassador, with two members of his extended family.
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Ukrainians in Canadian Agriculture: Terry Youzwa

Saskatchewan farmer and volunteer shares his heritage and culture

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Terry Youzwa’s family has been farming in Saskatchewan for generations and they’ve been sharing their Ukrainian history and culture the entire time. Youzwa is the third generation of his family to farm on the Canadian Prairies. His son Zak is the fourth and grandson Andriy a potential fifth. Now growing canola, wheat, oats, peas, faba […] Read more
“Our goal is to increase the labour and talent pipeline to our agri-food sector.” – Akosua Alagaratnam.
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Employment program aims to fill agri-food sector labour gap

Ontario’s First Work organization focuses on connecting young workers with potential employers

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The First Work organization has a mission to expand Ontario’s agri-food workforce and fill the current labour gap, and for the first time, it is focusing on farm, agriculture and agri-food employment opportunities. First Work connects young job seekers with more than 100 community-based employment agencies across Ontario. The organization works as a conduit to […] Read more
File photo of an Alberta wheat field. (ImagineGolf/E+/Getty Images)
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Coalition seeks farmers, ranchers to join climate change forum

Farmers for Climate Solutions aims to gather diverse viewpoints

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A farmer-led group is hoping to cut through the politics surrounding climate issues by bringing together a diverse group of Prairie farmers and ranchers for discussions around sustainability. “There’s a number of loud voices that tend to dominate the conversations,” says Ian McCreary, a grain and cattle farmer from Bladworth, Sask. McCreary is co-leading the […] Read more
Ari Westhaver of the NFU demonstrating on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Nov. 22, 2023. (Jonah Grignon photo)
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NFU takes demand for ban on investor ownership to Parliament Hill

Organization's youth caucus concerned amid ‘transition crisis’

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Members of the National Farmers Union (NFU) gathered on Parliament Hill Wednesday to demand a ban on investor ownership of farmland. The demonstration was organized by the NFU Youth Caucus and Farm Workers’ Working Group. The goal was to demand protection of food sovereignty and help farmers, especially young ones, gain more access to farmland. […] Read more
High schoolers from Iowa got hands-on journalism experience interviewing producers at Canadian Western Agribition. Pictured: Jake VanderHeiden, Hannah Grantz, and Katlin Truelsen, with Lexie Girodat of Rocking G Land and Cattle out of Gull Lake, Sask. (Becky Zimmer photo)
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At Agribition: Iowa school group looks in on Prairie ag

Media program students, alumni gather participants' stories

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Fresh faces and new blood were injected into the usual cadre of journalism veterans this week at Canadian Western Agribition. Students from Iowa’s CAC Media Group ventured to Regina for hands-on agricultural journalism experience. Hannah Grantz, Jake VanderHeiden and Katlin Truelsen, students from high schools across Clinton County in eastern Iowa, interviewed, photographed and videotaped […] Read more
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Feds plan to ease Underused Housing Tax reporting load

New exemption also proposed for employee housing outside cities

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Federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s latest Fall Economic Statement offers to take some of the reporting burden off certain farmers and other Canadians when filing for exemptions from the national Underused Housing Tax (UHT). The federal finance department on Nov. 16 posted its legislative and regulatory proposals for changes to the UHT online and has […] Read more
Lisa Thompson, Ontario Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, left, and Lawrence MacAulay, federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, announce $25 million in Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership funding for projects that improve production capacity and energy efficiency within the agriculture and food sector.
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$25 million program aims to boost agri-food innovation in Ontario

The program’s first intake starts on Feb. 15, 2024 and will pay up to $100,00 per project

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The Agri-Tech Innovation Initiative will disperse $25 million of Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership funding to drive agriculture and food sector production capacity and energy efficiency. “These investments will allow established and emerging businesses to speed up efforts to optimize their operations and help in achieving the ambitious goals we have set out for the agriculture […] Read more
Mike Swidersky and his family’s sheep operation Riverview Ranch Meat Co. in Melancthon were awarded the Mapleseed Pasture award at the recent OSF annual meeting.
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Alblas replaces Hemsted as chair of Ontario Sheep Farmers

Three new directors join OSF board

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Ontario Sheep Farmers announced Art Alblas as chair Oct. 27 during the organization’s first in-person annual general meeting since the pandemic. “I am very pleased to be elected as chair of such a great organization with such a bright and prosperous future,” said Alblas, in a news release. “I look forward to the industry coming […] Read more

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