Category Archives: Food
Conservation group says regulatory gaps in Canadian seafood supply chain pose threat
HALIFAX — An ocean conservation organization says Canada's “poorly regulated” seafood supply chain has hampered the fisheries sector and put ocean health in jeopardy. In a report released Thursday, Oceana Canada says the regulatory gaps are unwittingly...
More suicide, less education, slower internet: A look at Nunavut’s infrastructure gap
A report commissioned by Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., the land-claim organization that represents Inuit in the territory, outlines ways in which the region falls behind the rest of Canada. Here are some of the highlights: — Nunavut has the fewest hos...
Focus on innovation, not alcohol, key to survival for restaurants: experts
VANCOUVER — The pandemic may serve as an opportunity for the restaurant industry to innovate in order to avoid closures as public health measures limit the sale of booze and erode already thin profit margins, say addiction and business experts. Dr.
First wave of funding doled out to help food processors with COVID-19 upgrades
The federal government has started providing cash for food processors across the country to help them deal with COVID-19. A $77.5-million emergency fund was announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in May to help food process...
Demonstrators gather to protest treatment of migrant workers amid pandemic
TORONTO — Activists staged a demonstration in front of a government immigration office in Toronto on Sunday to protest what they say is unjust treatment of migrant workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was organized by the Migrant Worker...
B.C. reports 80 new COVID-19 cases, outbreak at Loblaws distribution centre
VANCOUVER — A Loblaws distribution centre in Surrey is the latest community outbreak of COVID-19 in British Columbia. The Fraser Health Authority says nine staff members have tested positive and their close contacts have been instructed to self-is...
Manitobans losing sight of fundamentals in COVID-19 fight: chief doctor
WINNIPEG — Manitoba's chief public health officer says people are losing sight of the fundamentals that previously kept the number of COVID-19 cases low in the province, as a cluster connected to a pork-processing plant grows larger. The province ...
Chicken, eggs both go first as feds roll out COVID-19 food surplus program
OTTAWA — More than 12 million eggs will be redistributed via an emergency federal program designed to help farmers faced with too much food and nowhere to sell it due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced Thursday...
N.L. considering program that would allow wild game donations to food banks
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Food banks in Newfoundland and Labrador are being surveyed on a long-discussed proposal to allow hunters to donate moose meat and other game to those in need. Eg Walters of the Community Food Sharing Association, ...
Quebec farms facing lost profits and rotting harvests due to migrant worker shortage
MONTREAL — Nineteen-year-old Florence Lachapelle was among hundreds of Quebecers who tried their hand at planting seeds and harvesting produce this summer, replacing migrant workers who were unable to leave their countries because of the COVID-19 pande...