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A Canada-U.S. Meat War?

CP | Lee-Anne Goodman, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.23.2013 | Canada Business
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WASHINGTON - A Canada-U.S. trade war is apparently looming as Ottawa threatens "retaliatory measures" against the United States in a continuing disput...

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Ottawa Warns Washington

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.08.2013 | Canada Politics
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The Canadian government is warning Washington it may retaliate if the U.S. brings in a new, more restrictive trade rule on how beef and pork product e...

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Tories' Deregulation Scheme Will Cause 'Massive Job Loss': Critics

CBC | Posted 02.19.2013 | Canada Business
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Mayors from across southwestern Ontario met Thursday in Toronto to denounce the deregulation of food packaging and demand the minister of agriculture ...

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XL Foods Beef Is Doing Just Fine

CP | Terry Pedwell, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.20.2013 | Canada Alberta
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OTTAWA - The fallout from a massive tainted-beef recall was still being felt Tuesday as the Harper government passed legislation aimed at making the f...

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Does Tenderized Beef Need Labels? Ritz Speaks

CBC | Posted 12.26.2012 | Canada Alberta
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Canada's agriculture minister is weighing in on the heightened E. coli risk in mechanically tenderized meat and what options are being explored. ...

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Saskatchewan E. Coli Scare Not Linked To Recall

CP | John Cotter, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.09.2012 | Canada Alberta
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EDMONTON - The owners of an Alberta plant behind a massive recall of beef products say they have fixed the problems that forced food safety officials ...

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Read Gerry Ritz's Full Statement On Beef Recall

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 10.03.2012 | Canada Alberta
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Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced in a press conference that the XL Foods plant in Brooks, Alta. won't reopen until the Canadian Food Inspecti...

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Plant Won't Reopen Until Health Not At Risk: Agriculture Minister

CP | Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.03.2012 | Canada Alberta
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CALGARY - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says there was a delay getting information on tainted meat from an Alberta packing plant at the centre o...

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Tories Celebrate End Of Wheat Board

CP | Jennifer Graham, The Canadian Press | Posted 09.30.2012 | Canada Politics
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KINDERSLEY, Sask. - Western Canadian farmers who were convicted in the 1990s for taking their grain across the border to sell in the U.S. have been pa...

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Canadian Wheat Board Law Before Court of Appeal

CP | Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.22.2012 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - The latest chapter in the long and bitter saga of the Canadian Wheat Board played out Wednesday in the Federal Court of Appeal.The court agre...

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Top Spending Tory Defends Expenses

CBC | Posted 06.26.2012 | Canada Politics
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Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, speaking from Morocco, is defending his hefty travel and hospitality expenses. According to information on spendin...

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Feds Misleading Canadians On Food Safety Cuts: Union

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 06.21.2012 | Canada Business
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The federal government is misleading Canadians about the changes it’s making to Canada’s food safety measures and bowing to industry pressure in i...

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Bev Oda's Not The Top Tory Spender

CP | Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press | Posted 06.24.2012 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - Bev Oda may be in hot water for her champagne tastes, but by no means is she the highest-spending member of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's c...

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Tories’ Decision To Stop Policing Food Labels Threatens Canadians: Union

HuffingtonPost.com | Daniel Tencer | Posted 03.30.2012 | Canada Business
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The federal government’s decision to stop policing nutrition claims on food labels threatens Canadians’ health and leaves consumers with little re...

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Judge: Tories Broke Law In Ending Wheat Board Monopoly

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 02.06.2012 | Canada Politics
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Farmer Tossed From House Of Commons Gallery

CBC | Posted 01.25.2012 | Canada
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A Manitoba farmer stood up in the visitor's gallery of the House of Commons to chastise the government over its move to end the monopoly ...

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Farmers Counter Sue Wheat Board

CP | Scott Edmonds, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.27.2011 | Canada Politics
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WINNIPEG - A Western farm group is trying to block the Canadian Wheat Board from going to court over the federal government's plan to strip the board ...

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Minister Says Killing Wheat Board Monopoly To Free Farmers

HuffingtonPost.com | Althia Raj | Posted 12.24.2011 | Canada Politics
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Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says dismantling the Canadian Wheat Board's (CWB) single desk will free farmers from their shackles. He told an aud...

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NDP Targets Seven Tory MPs For Potential Wheat Board Conflict

CBC | Posted 12.24.2011 | Canada Politics
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The government's legislation to make farmers' sales to the Canadian Wheat Board voluntary cleared another hurdle in the House of Commons ...

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Tories Move To End Wheat Board Monopoly

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.18.2011 | Canada Politics
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Western Canadian farmers will be able to market their wheat and barley on the open market as of Aug. 1 next year, if a bill introduced today in the Ho...

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Farmers Vote To Keep Wheat Board Monopoly

CP | Scott Edmonds and Chinta Puxley, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.12.2011 | Canada Politics
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WINNIPEG - Prairie farmers have voted in favour of the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly over wheat and barley sales.Just over 60 per cent of wheat grow...

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Tories Shut Down Wheat Board Before Vote Is In

Ottawa Citizen | Posted 10.12.2011 | Canada Business
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The Harper government is moving ahead with plans to shut down the Canadian Wheat Board, even before the results of a plebiscite on the agency's future...

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