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)

Cross-border supply chains still may face disruptions from vaccine mandates

CLARIFIED, Jan. 13 — Ottawa/Washington | Reuters — COVID-19 vaccine requirements for foreign truckers at the U.S.-Canada border still could cause supply-chain disruptions if both countries do not decide to allow exemptions, the head of the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) said Thursday. Canadian truck drivers who aren’t vaccinated may enter Canada by right — but […] Read more

Crop Production Show rolls out next week

More than 20,000 visitors expected to four-day event in Saskatoon

After sitting out the 2020 tradeshow and conference season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Saskatchewan’s Crop Production Show is full steam ahead this January, with doors opening to a live tradeshow and conference schedule in Saskatoon next week. All systems are go for the Jan. 10-13, 2022, event, which was first launched nearly 40 years […] Read more





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AgriCommunication plan to seek farmer-consumer dialogue

Ag exhibitions among expected beneficiaries

The federal government has put up new funding toward improving consumers’ awareness of the “strengths” of Canada’s ag sector — and to improve farmer awareness of what those consumers want and expect. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on Thursday announced an $8 million, three-year funding envelope for the first of two streams of what’s now called […] Read more

Dairy producers Michael and Jessica Lovich of Balgonie, Sask., were named Saskatchewan’s Outstanding Young Farmers for 2021.

Nominees lined up for national Outstanding Young Farmer awards

Plans and dreams of dairy, beef, poultry and vegetable producers featured in December program

For the second year in a row, Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers (COYF) national awards program planned for early December 2021, for the most part, will be a virtual event again, although the actual awards presentations will be live. While the information workshops and social networking during the awards program, being held Dec. 1-3, will be […] Read more


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)

U.S. border reopens to Canadian land travelers

Travel business sees 'tremendous pent-up demand'

Toronto | Reuters — A steady stream of Canadian visitors, particularly retirees headed to U.S. sun spots, crossed the U.S. border by car on Monday for the first time in 20 months as Washington lifted travel restrictions. Traffic was heavy at times at some U.S. border posts such as Bluewater Bridge, Michigan near Sarnia, Ont., […] Read more




File photo of the Port of Montreal. (Guy Banville/iStock/Getty Images)

Canada concerned about supply chain issues, watching ports ‘closely’

Reuters –– Canada is concerned about the challenges facing global supply chains and is watching the country’s ports very closely, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Thursday. Freeland, speaking to reporters in Washington after meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, said she was broadly optimistic about the strength of Canada’s economic recovery […] Read more