Amendments would exempt propane, natural gas from carbon pricing if used to heat farm buildings or dry grain
Amendments to the federal greenhouse gas pollution pricing legislation are heading back to the House of Commons after they were passed at the standing agriculture committee. Farm organizations urged parliamentarians to adopt the legislation. The all-party committee studied Bill C-234, a private member’s bill sponsored by Ontario Conservative MP Ben Lobb, and amended it to […] Read more
Karen Briere
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Sask. wheat merger takes another step
The next step in the amalgamation of two Saskatchewan crop commissions has begun. Sask Wheat and the Saskatchewan Winter Cereals Development Commission are holding another round of online consultations on the potential amalgamation, as they promised last summer. The two commissions have carried out previous online consultations and found overwhelming support for the merger. After […] Read more
Sask. govt rejects food price investigation
The Saskatchewan Party government has dismissed an opposition NDP request to investigate food and meat pricing. Agriculture minister David Marit said the federal standing committee on agriculture already planned to look at the matter and he said federal policies such as the carbon tax are mostly to blame. NDP leader Carla Beck and agriculture critic […] Read more
Food systems must transform: COP27
Feeding eight billion people requires transformation of food systems, delegates to COP27 heard. Four initiatives to do that were announced at the most recent climate change conference held in Egypt. The conference noted the past year has been challenging. Thirty-seven million people face starvation in Africa after four consecutive droughts. Floods in Pakistan devastated that […] Read more
Climate framework must be more transparent: think-tank
New report says the federal government should develop common measurements as a way to develop better climate policy
A recent Canada West Foundation report validates what Saskatchewan has said all along about a national climate policy, said the province’s environment minister. The report by CWF vice-president Colleen Collins and Herb Emery, the Vaughn Chair in economics at the University of New Brunswick, used Saskatchewan as a test case regarding transparency of the pan-Canadian […] Read more
RCMP questions new marshals service plan in Sask.
SARM says key would be to have all police officers and services working together for better enforcement in rural Sask.
Saskatchewan RCMP assistant commissioner Rhonda Blackmore said she wants to know why the province plans to establish a marshals service rather than provide the existing police force with needed resources. Blackmore told the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities midterm convention last week the RCMP had asked the government for more money. Instead, during the recent […] Read more
Sask. RMs want financial help to hire officers
Rural municipalities that want to work together to hire a community safety officer say the provincial government should make that process easier. Last spring delegates to the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities passed a resolution asking for financial assistance for RMs to hire CSOs. Last week at the midterm convention, delegates heard that the response […] Read more
VIDEO: Sask govt rejects opposition request to investigate food prices
The Saskatchewan Party government has dismissed an opposition NDP request to investigate food and meat pricing. Agriculture minister David Marit said the federal standing committee on agriculture already planned to look at the matter and he said federal policies such as the carbon tax are mostly to blame. NDP leader Carla Beck and agriculture critic […] Read more
Sask. wheat commission merger takes another step
The next step in the amalgamation of two Saskatchewan crop commissions has begun. Sask Wheat and the Saskatchewan Winter Cereals Development Commission are holding another round of online consultations on the potential amalgamation, as they promised last summer. The two commissions have carried out previous online consultations and found overwhelming support for the merger. After […] Read more
Supply management help explained
Federal agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced further details Nov. 14 about compensation for supply-managed sectors affected by the renegotiated North American free trade deal. This should be the last compensation package for lost market share due to trade agreements. “Promise made, promise kept,” she said. “I would like to reiterate our government’s commitment not to […] Read more
