WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Dec 30 (Reuters) – A man dressed as Santa Claus robbed an Alberta jewelry store at gunpoint on Christmas Eve, before dashing away in a Hummer, police said on Wednesday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the red-and-white-garbed robber entered a jewelry store in Stettler, Alberta, in late afternoon last Thursday. He demanded […] Read more
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Bad Santa pulls Christmas eve heist, escapes
Profit-taking undercuts CME live cattle futures
CHICAGO, Dec 29 (Reuters) – Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures sagged for a second straight session on Tuesday, after participants took profits in the year’s final week of trading, traders said. Spot December and February each closed 0.650 cent per lb lower, at 130.200 and 135.500 cents respectively. Traders adjusted positions while awaiting the […] Read more
Bees used to defeat crop pests
Mainstream television networks and news magazines don’t normally report on innovations in pest management. However, MacLean’s, Global News and other media outlets have reported on a Canadian company with a unique method for defeating crop pests. BVT, a Mississauga firm specializing in bee vectoring technology, has developed a system that uses bumblebees to deliver microbial […] Read more
Grain flows smoothly; export volumes up sharply
The amount of grain that has moved from prairie farms to export terminals so far this year is well-above average, according to figures from Canada’s federal Grain Monitoring Program. The data show total grain car unloads at port of 14.2 million tonnes so far in the 2015-16 shipping season, including nearly 3.9 million tonnes at […] Read more
Making a case for wetland inventory
Finding a wetland in North Dakota is easy — a lot easier than in Saskatchewan. In North Dakota, one can visit the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service website at www.fws.gov/wetlands/Data/Mapper.html and find the map that colour codes wetlands in the United States. Someone who wants to identify wetlands on a specific quarter section of land […] Read more
Manitoba First Nations eye Port of Churchill
OmniTrax will consider offer to buy the 400 kilometre Hudson Bay Railway and Canada’s only deep water Arctic port
First Nations groups in northern Manitoba are interested in buying the Hudson Bay Railway and the Port of Churchill from OmniTrax Canada. OmniTrax officials confirmed Dec. 18 that the company has accepted a letter of intent from an undisclosed number of northern Manitoba First Nations. The company announced last month it was seeking a buyer […] Read more
Canadian canola has carbon advantage
Studies have found canola increases soil organic carbon, resulting in a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
The recent Paris climate accord will likely increase world attention on the carbon footprint associated with crops. This could be good news for Canadian canola producers, who produce lower amounts of greenhouse gas than producers in other canola and rapeseed regions. “Canola is unique in terms of the amount of soil organic carbon (SOC) that […] Read more
Producers cheer end of COOL
It’s not going to be a COOL winter, and that pleases Canadian cattle and hog producers. The U.S. Congress repealed country-of-origin labelling legislation Dec. 18 as part of a larger omnibus bill, averting a potential trade war in the form of more than $1 billion in retaliatory tariffs about to be imposed by Canada and […] Read more
Chicken also excluded from COOL repeal
Last week’s repeal of U.S. country-of-origin labelling legislation excluded chicken as well as sheep and lamb. Mike Dungate, executive director of the Chicken Farmers of Canada, said Dec. 22 that chicken’s continued inclusion under COOL is less of an issue because no live chickens are typically shipped to the United States. The National Chicken Council […] Read more
Sask. producers plan capture of bison on the lam
Roaming bison were still on the loose in northeastern Saskatchewan as of press time, but producers in the Tisdale area were drawing up a capture plan. The animals appeared to have moved away from the Highway 35 area Dec. 18, where they were sighted several times on the weekend of Dec. 11-13. Estimates have placed […] Read more
