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Alberta Town In Crisis Mode Following Beef Recall Layoffs

Alberta Town In Crisis Mode Following Beef Recall Layoffs

Mary Jo Laforest, The Canadian Press  10.17.2012
Weeks of worry and uncertainty in a southern Alberta community turned in a single moment to a wave of optimism with word that a U.S. company...
B.C. Residents Sue XL Foods

B.C. Residents Sue XL Foods

10.17.2012
A 15-year-old boy from Nanaimo and a Vancouver woman are suing XL Foods, which owns the Alberta-based meat packing company at the centre...
Workers Laid Off AGAIN As Recall Expands

Workers Laid Off AGAIN As Recall Expands

10.17.2012
EDMONTON - Workers at an Alberta plant at the centre of a beef recall and E. coli scare have been laid off again as food safety officials...
Laid-Off Workers Meet To Discuss Crisis

Laid-Off Workers Meet To Discuss Crisis

10.16.2012
Roughly 800 workers returned to the job Tuesday processing meat at the XL Foods plant in Brooks, Alta., so Canadian Food Inspection Agency...
XL Foods Plant In Alberta Could Reopen This Week

XL Foods Plant In Alberta Could Reopen This Week

10.15.2012
The Alberta meat plant at the centre of an international meat recall because of an E. coli outbreak could reopen as soon as the end of...
Unaffected Alberta Meat Plant Steps Up Production In Light Of Massive Recall

Unaffected Alberta Meat Plant Steps Up Production In Light Of Massive Recall

John Cotter, The Canadian Press  10.15.2012
EDMONTON - As questions remain about when or if the packing plant at the centre of an E. coli outbreak and beef recall will reopen, another...
XL Foods Recalls 800 Employees

XL Foods Recalls 800 Employees

10.14.2012
XL Foods management has asked 800 of the 2,000 workers that were laid off Saturday to return to work to the meat processing plant in Brooks,...
Inspections Grind To A Halt

Inspections Grind To A Halt

Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press  10.14.2012
OTTAWA - The meat processing company at the centre of an E. coli outbreak is recalling 800 workers it laid off only a day earlier, breaking...
Union Surprised By XL Foods Layoffs

Union Surprised By XL Foods Layoffs

10.13.2012
Staff and union officials attached to the embattled XL Foods meat processing plant in Alberta expressed shock after the company said Saturday...

XL Foods Announces Temporary Layoff Of 2,000 Employees

10.13.2012
XL Foods, the chain behind the biggest beef recall in Canadian history, announced Saturday that it is temporarily laying off 2,000 workers...
New E.Coli Cases Confirmed In B.C.

New E.Coli Cases Confirmed In B.C.

The Canadian Press  10.12.2012
VANCOUVER - Two new cases of E. coli connected to the massive beef recall at the XL Foods plant in Alberta have been confirmed in British...
Quebec E. Coli Cases Linked To Beleaguered Alberta Plant

Quebec E. Coli Cases Linked To Beleaguered Alberta Plant

Lina Dib, The Canadian Press  10.12.2012
OTTAWA - Some food-safety experts are calling the recall of tonnes of meat produced by XL Foods unnecessary — the result of what one...
Uh-Oh: U.S. To Audit Canada's Food Agency

Uh-Oh: U.S. To Audit Canada's Food Agency

John Cotter, The Canadian Press  10.12.2012
EDMONTON - The federal agency responsible for protecting Canadians from food safety hazards will itself soon be under the microscope.The...
Canadian Beef Is Safe, Says Alberta

Canadian Beef Is Safe, Says Alberta

10.12.2012
Alberta Premier Alison Redford says a government program to help beef producers should be enough to get them through the temporary shutdown...
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