Canada’s food safety program, CanadaGAP, will be increasing fees by five per cent effective September 1, 2023.
- Canadians are encouraged to celebrate our food and all the hard-working people who make it happen from farms to forks. Food Day Canada is celebrating 20 years of shining a light on Canadian cuisine on August 5, 2023.
- The Canadian Federation of Agriculture welcomes PEI MP Lawrence MacAulay as the new federal minister of agriculture and agri-food. He reprises the role that he held from 2015 to 2019.
- More than $8 million in government funds has been pledged for research and innovation projects through the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance. Four projects relate to horticulture.
- Columnist Owen Roberts describes the values of a free press in mainstream and farm media in Canada, after attending the 2023 congress of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists in Alberta.