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iPolitics By Kelsey Johnson. Published on Apr 16, 2021 11:19am Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole in Ottawa in February 2018, announced his climate plan on Thursday which includes a carbon levy. (Matthew Usherwood/iPolitics) Good day and welcome to the Sprout, where it’s National Day of the Mushroom and National Eggs Benedict Day. The weekend brings with it National Cheese Ball Day on Saturday and National Animal Crackers Day on Sunday. Looking for a fun agriculture fact that may just get the conversation buzzing? This TicTok video about bees’ time perception won’t leave a stin...

From: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Hog producers in Prince Edward Island (PEI) have been impacted by COVID-19 outbreaks and disease control measures at processing plants, and many producers are being forced to keep hogs on-farm beyond their standard lifecycle. This has resulted in extraordinary feed and maintenance costs which have put a financial strain on their operations. Hog producers in Prince Edward Island (PEI) have been impacted by COVID-19 outbreaks and disease control measures at processing plants, and many producers are being forced to keep hogs on-farm beyond their standard li...

Today, the Member of Parliament for Kings-Hants, Kody Blois, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development and Member of Parliament for Long Range Mountains, Gudie Hutchings, the Member of Parliament for Malpeque, Wayne Easter, and the Member of Parliament for Miramichi-Grand Lake, Pat Finnigan, announced details of two new programs designed to help drive innovation and market development for Canada's 4,800 chicken, turkey and egg farmers, including the over 250 such farmers in Atlantic Canada. These programs, totaling more than $...

  TORONTO -- Members of a federal government committee that regulates Canadian banking say they want the big banks to provide consumers a faster avenue to shut down fraud on their accounts — or face further action. The moves come after a CTV News Toronto investigation into a widespread fake taxi scam that showed how cunning fraudsters duped Torontonians wanting to help others during the pandemic — and then exploited weaknesses in fraud detection system to make off with thousands per case. In one case, a Toronto woman realized she’d been scammed, phoned her bank to cancel her card, ...

MONTREAL -- The Quebec government won't be overseeing its tax returns just yet. A Bloc Quebecois bill which would have allowed the province to do just that was defeated at committee on Tuesday. Liberals on the finance committee voted against all the clauses of the bill, which was introduced by Bloc MP Gabriel Ste-Marie. The Conservatives, who favoured the idea, abstained from voting. Only Bloc and New Democratic Party MPs voted in favour of the bill. Even the title of the bill was defeated in a vote. Committee chair Wayne Easter must, in principle, submit the committee's report, with th...