ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — The British Columbia government is spending up to $25 million toward the construction of a milk production plant aimed at boosting the supply of locally sourced food products.
The province says the project will boost local production for diary products such as butter, which is currently required to be shipped from Eastern Canada to satiate local demand.B.C. Premier David Eby says in a statement that recent "climate disasters," including the November 2021 atmospheric river event, elevated food prices and showed that the province "must produce more food here.
“This is the time of year where are headed back to Alaska from Mexico.... And sometimes they die.”LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — An agreement to protect a sprawling ranch in southern Alberta from development is the largest of its kind in the country, the Nature Conservancy of Canada says, and will allow the family that owns it to continue raising cattle there. The 22,000-hectare McIntyre Ranch was founded south of Lethbridge, Alta.