Speciality cheeses have been cast aside in favour of more basic foodstuffs during lockdown

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After a drop in dairy demand, Dairy Farmers of Manitoba and Bothwell Cheese are turning excess milk into thousands of kilograms of cheese for Winnipeg

After weeks of refusing to introduce measures to boost food security, the province has issued a bold request for proposals from Manitoba businesses able to provide five-day meal packages to 15,000...

Commercial fishers on Lake Winnipeg's southern basin — already suffering from a pandemic-induced drop in demand for their catch — want Manitoba to put off a rule change requiring them to catch...

Forty meat plant inspectors in Canada — 21 of them in Alberta — have contracted COVID-19, according to their union, prompting a senator to call for workers and the integrity of the food safety system...

by Benjamin Selwyn (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, May 2020)

Are food donations “fit for nutritional purpose”?…

It might have seemed like a simple gesture but it won’t be soon forgotten by residents of a remote Indigenous community in British Columbia. Those in the ‘Namgis First Nation in Alert Bay have been...

COVID-19 outbreaks have shown that foreign workers are paying the price for our food choices.

As the pandemic wreaks havoc on the meat industry, hog farmers anticipate they'll soon be forced to euthanize millions of pigs unable to be sent for processing.

Workers share Covid-19 fears over lack of social distancing, crowded accommodation and being forced to buy their own PPE

A couple of First Nations commercial fishermen in northern Manitoba are glad federal relief is on its way for the struggling industry.

Manitoba restaurants are trying to adapt to the new reality of takeout or delivery only.

Africa has so far escaped the worst health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the continent looks like it could be the worst hit from the economic fallout of the crisis.

“Only when the tide goes out,” Warren Buffett observed, “do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” For our society, the Covid-19 pandemic represents an ebb tide of historic proportions, one that is...

Above-normal wildland fire potential is predicted by midsummer for Northern California

Why is food being destroyed while people go hungry? It’s complicated.

With lobster processing set to begin Sunday, desperate New Brunswick seafood plants are turning to high school and even middle school students to fill the gap left by temporary foreign workers.

A Mucho Burrito in Acadia has been ordered to close after an employee continued to work despite testing positive for and exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19.

Canadian fruit and vegetable growers are bracing for "the worst year in history" — not because of the quality of their crops but because they don't have enough people to pick them. Theirs may be an...

Two problems in Vermont — food insecurity and dairy surplus — converged Friday afternoon in a St. Albans parking lot, where Franklin County farmers gave...

"They didn’t want to believe that I was sick.”

"Emancipation never really came to agriculture, in the sense that we still don't pay the full value of the labor that's required."