What U.S. flooding could mean for Canada’s Prairie farmers | CBC News
Some of the greatest concern is over corn and soybeans.
PCs’ policy on fish processing cost the industry millions, says Gerry Byrne | CBC News
In 2013, negotiations between
Canada and the European Union over the Comprehensive Economic and Trade
Agreement, or CETA, included talks on how Newfoundland and Labrador
might be compensated for losses once the deal was implemented. The
provincial PC government of the time insisted on a $400-million
compensation program, noted Byrne.
“I can certainly understand why they’d take that position,” Byrne said.
But
that fund never materialized, and Byrne today blames the loss of
millions in compensation on the province’s minimum processing
requirements — or MPRs — which were established in 2001 to prevent
processors from bypassing fish plants and sending whole fish directly to
market.
“They effectively torpedoed their own arguments,” he said.
RCMP violently remove and arrest citizen at public meeting about gold mine
And I mean spectacularly.
Not only were most of the people who spoke up strongly opposed to
Atlantic Gold’s proposed mine in Cochrane Hill on the banks of the St.
Mary’s River in Guysborough County, and very vocal about their fears of
what the proposed open pit gold mine would do to the river and their
community, the event also resulted in the brutal arrest of an innocent
citizen.
Andrew Scheer wants an energy corridor across Canada. Here’s how the decades-old idea could work
He
said planning for the route would be done up front, in consultation
with provinces and Indigenous communities. A right-of-way would make it
easier to lower environmental assessment costs, improve certainty for
investors and increase the chances more projects will be built, Scheer
said.
$15M fund created to clean up contaminated Harrietsfield salvage site | CBC News
The
province will put $8.3 million into the fund, with the remaining $6.7
million chipped in from the federal government. Halifax MP Andy Fillmore
and Halifax Atlantic MLA Brendan Maguire made the announcement on
Thursday.