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Crops

Saskatchewan pushes crop insurance deadline to mid-April

'Logistical challenges' led to extension

By Dave Bedard March 15, 2022
Saskatchewan farmers will get an extra couple of weeks to apply for, cancel, reinstate or change their crop insurance contracts for 2022, due to holdups in the delivery of their […] Read more

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Livestock

JBS to help fund home purchases for Brooks staff

Company offering zero-interest loans for down payments

By Dave Bedard March 4, 2022
One of the biggest beef packers operating in Canada is pledging $1.7 million for a one-year pilot program to help employees buy or upgrade homes. JBS Foods Canada, which operates […] Read more

Photo of an RCMP vehicle attending the blockade at Emerson, Man. dated Feb. 11, 2022. (Photo courtesy Manitoba RCMP)
Livestock, Markets

Manitoba border blockade expected to end Wednesday

'Resolution' reached, Mounties say

By Dave Bedard February 16, 2022
Another protest blockade of a key Canada-U.S. trade corridor is expected to wrap up by Wednesday. Manitoba RCMP on Tuesday reported they “are now confident that a resolution has been […] Read more

An image created by Nexu Science Communication, together with Trinity College in Dublin, shows a model structurally representative of a betacoronavirus, the type of virus linked to COVID-19. (Nexu Science Communication via Reuters)

Canada to ease travel requirements as COVID cases decline

By Steve Scherer February 15, 2022
Updated — Ottawa | Reuters — Canada will ease entry for fully vaccinated international travelers starting Feb. 28 as COVID-19 cases decline, allowing a rapid antigen test for travelers instead […] Read more

RCMP on Feb. 14, 2022 reported seizing the guns, ammunition and other items shown here during a search of three trailers "associated to" a group involved with the Coutts, Alta. border blockade. (An earlier version of this caption incorrectly quoted RCMP as saying the trailers were at the blockade.) (Photo courtesy Alberta RCMP)
Machinery, Markets

Alberta border blockade expected to disperse Tuesday

Decision comes amid arrests, reported violence at blockade

By Dave Bedard February 15, 2022
Amid reports of violence involving a farm tractor and trucks — and seizures of weapons — the protest blockade that shut Alberta’s busiest U.S. trade corridor is reported to be […] Read more


A man and a child ride away from a protest site at Windsor, Ont. on Feb. 12, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Osorio)
Machinery, Markets

Windsor-Detroit trade corridor reopens after police clear protesters

Prairie premiers oppose use of Emergencies Act

By Chris Helgren, David Morgan, Kayla Tarnowski February 14, 2022
Windsor/Washington/Ottawa | Reuters — North America’s busiest trade link reopened for traffic late Sunday evening, ending a six-day blockade, the Canada Border Services Agency said, after Canadian police cleared the […] Read more

File photo of a view near the Canadian end of the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor and Detroit and is considered one of North America’s busiest trade routes. (Steven_Kriemadis/iStock/Getty Images)
Machinery, Markets

U.S. urges Canada to use federal powers to ease border protest disruption

Disruptions force automakers to reduce operations

By Carlos Osorio, Ismail Shakil, Steve Holland February 11, 2022
Windsor/Washington | Reuters — Canada should use federal powers to ease the growing economic disruption caused by the blockage of a vital U.S.-Canada trade route by protesters opposed to coronavirus […] Read more

Protestors’ vehicles block the route leading from the Ambassador Bridge, linking Detroit and Windsor, on Feb. 8, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Osorio)
Markets

More government action likely as border blockades hit trade

Manitoba's main crossing now also blocked

By David Shepardson, Ismail Shakil February 10, 2022
Reuters — The shutdown of a vital U.S.-Canada trade route is knocking out automakers’ operations as the business impact from the two-week-old protests against Canada’s pandemic measures ramp up pressure […] Read more


File photo of the Canada-U.S. border crossing connecting Sarnia, Ont. and Port Huron, Michigan. (Eyfoto/iStock/Getty Images)
Markets

Canada, U.S. fear economic damage from border crossing protest

Headway in one area, another protest elsewhere, minister says

By Blair Gable, Carlos Osorio, Jarrett Renshaw February 9, 2022
Windsor/Ottawa/Washington | Reuters — Truckers blocking U.S-Canada border crossings risk hurting the auto industry and agriculture, the White House said on Wednesday as Ottawa urged an end to the 13-day […] Read more

File photo of a view near the Canadian end of the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor and Detroit and is considered one of North America’s busiest trade routes. (Steven_Kriemadis/iStock/Getty Images)
Machinery

Pandemic border protests strand cattle and car parts

By Julie Gordon, Rod Nickel February 8, 2022
Ottawa | Reuters — Protests in Canada against vaccine mandates have disrupted two key U.S. border crossings, and are snarling hundreds of millions of dollars daily of trade, ranging from […] Read more

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