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"It's my role to report. It's your role to press for reforms"

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Ontario finally moving on diseases

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A couple of years after it passed legislation enabling it to tackle outbreaks of highly-contagious diseases, the Ontario Ministr...

Hog farmers alerted about Erysipelas

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  Several veterinarians in the mid-western United States have noticed a marked increase in cases of erysipelas in market hogs, triggerin...

HSUS pressures Tim’s

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The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has bought at least one share in Tim Horton’s and is using that to bring pressure o...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

Taxpayer federation slams tobacco buyout

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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has singled out the federal government’s buyout program for tobacco farmers as the biggest w...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Special foods sector needs help

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  The farmers and companies trying to produce and market specialty foods need help from the government and should organize their...
Monday, March 5, 2012

Beware CFIA powers

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Lawyer Ron Doering, former head of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, says the civil servants who work there have tremendous clout, fa...
Sunday, March 4, 2012

Secrets unveiled

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A friend sent me a batch of information the Canadian Food Inspection Agency released only because somebody had filed an Access-t...
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Jim Romahn
Journalist who has been reporting on agriculture since 1963; winner of more than 100 awards, including two Govenor- General Awards for Public Service in Journalism plus an honourable mention as one of five finalists plus the 1987 Michener-Deacon fellowship to study and report on biotechnology research in agriculture.
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