'Great opportunity': Alberta's agri-food industry to kickstart economic recovery: report
CALGARY -- While many of Alberta's major industries slowed down during the pandemic, there's one big outlier: Agri-food. A new report from the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy says the province's agri-food producers will play a major part in Alberta's economic recovery. The province has the talent, land and climate to do so, the report says. "There's great opportunity to use those resources and really kickstart back into a growing economy in 2021...and into the future," said Karen Spencer with the U of C's Simpson Centre for Agricultural and Food Innovation. The report s...