With nearly 40 per cent of Canadians seeking to incorporate more plant-based products into their diets, the federal government says it is launching nationwide consultations to provide “greater clarity” for consumers and industry when it comes to production and marketing… »
Highlights / Marie-Claude Bibeau
Ottawa announces details of $50M surplus food program
The federal government announced Thursday details of a program designed to redirect to food banks and community organizations millions of kilograms of perfectly good food that would otherwise be thrown out. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said the $50-million program aims… »
Warning delivered about more COVID consequences
A Public Safety Canada briefing note obtained by CBC News spells out what could happen if a labour shortage takes hold as the number of COVID-19 cases multiplies. Consequences could include shortages in the food supply chain, problems obtaining needed… »
Economy, Health, Immigration & Refugees
Ottawa will help employers defray COVID-19 costs for seasonal workers
Last month, when the federal government flirted briefly with barring temporary foreign workers from coming to Canada as part of the fight against COVID-19, it sent shockwaves through the country’s agriculture and fishing industries. Under the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program,… »
Canada is unlikely to help UN food agency in Palestine, says Bibeau
Ottawa would be hard-pressed to step in and help fill part of a funding shortage that has forced the United Nations to scale back its support programs to vulnerable families in Palestine, says Canada’s international development minister. The World Food… »
Immigration & Refugees, International
Canada provides $62.5M to support Palestinian refugees
Canada will contribute up to $50 million over two years to the beleaguered UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees after the United States cut its aid, International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced Friday. Ottawa will also provide up to $12.5… »
Canada names former ‘dragon’ to champion women entrepreneurs
International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau named Tuesday a well-known Quebec entrepreneur and media personality Daniele Henkel as Canada’s representative to a World Bank group that works to promote women entrepreneurship in developing countries. The Morocco-born self-made millionaire and the former… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics
Canada pledges $300M to Rohingya crisis, but remains vague on resettlement
Canada is pledging $300 million in foreign aid over the next three years to help the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority fleeing a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing in their native Myanmar, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and International Development Minister… »
Canada provides humanitarian assistance for Venezuelan refugees
Canada will provide $5.3 million in humanitarian assistance to Latin American and Caribbean countries that have sheltered hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan’s fleeing the political and humanitarian crisis being fuelled by the Maduro regime, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland announced… »
Understanding Canada’s feminist international development policy
The Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will mark its second anniversary of coming to power on Nov. 4. Trudeau made the promise of Canada’s re-engagement with the world one of the hallmarks of his new foreign policy. International… »
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