Sylvain Charlebois- Farmers pay the price for Ottawa’s electric vehicle obsession
Betting billions on a speculative EV industry while leaving Canadian farmers and seafood harvesters to pay the price is proof that in this trade war, agriculture is just collateral damage
Have they pulled Chinese booze off the shelves yet?
China fucked western CANADA late Friday with a 100% tariff on canola oil and peas.
Don’t think it’s serious Richardson last night late sent out a statement that they were pulling all bids for Canola effective immediately.
Cargill and all others will follow today.
All this to save a few electric car jobs that don’t even exist in eastern CANADA.
Were fucked and not a peep from any news outlet of the damage or liberal NDP politician.
@KenKluz – So much seed and chem is in our sheds, so we are stuck seeding canola, regardless what do you switch to as of rotation and other commodity prices. Far worse than 1970 or 1986
A very good read.
The Food Professor- Canada Keeps Losing at Geopolitics—And Our Farmers Pay the Price
“Canada keeps picking fights it can’t win—now our farmers are paying the price for Ottawa’s reckless trade policies.”
Francisco- So are we taking Chinese booze off the shelves? Asking for a friend.
Is China adding a 100% tariff to canola oil god that can’t be true?
What the fuck did Trudeau do now.
This can’t be true. pic.twitter.com/xbXs3LI79R
— Kotylak (@Kotyjo) March 8, 2025
…retaliating against levies Ottawa introduced in October on Chinese-made electric vehicles, steel and aluminum products.
We have the worst negotiators.
You don’t know where it’s been: $346,654 to help “genderqueer farmers to overcome barriers to participation in the agriculture sector
And it’s just the drippy tip of the iceberg.
$333,865 to “decolonize the food system.”
Half a million dollars to achieve gender diversity in agricultural bodies.
Creating inclusive signposts by “compiling a collection of texts by sexually diverse immigrant women.” – $258,505.00
$319,491 to address colonial barriers of the gender binary and heteropatriarchy in Yellowknife.
$542,487 to address persistent, harmful gender norms in Canada’s electricity industry.
$200,000 of your money to “advance equity and decolonization in large, urban parks.”
Half a million dollars to support gender diverse musicians in Winnipeg.
$341,052 to provide outdoor-based rite of passage programming for non-binary youths in Burnaby.
$53,800 to “ensure the growth of 2SLGBTQI+ French-speaking minority communities in the Acadian Peninsula
Three-quarters of a million dollars to support the arts and culture industry for non-binary Francophones in New Brunswick.
$200,000 in tax dollars over the years to Rubies Apparel to craft trans and non-binary inclusive swimwear by “creating a bra designed for trans and non-binary tweens and teens that have not developed up top.”
These and more, compiled by the unmatchable Andy Lee.
h/t to PhilM: Canada Public Accounts (CSV format)
The Telegraph- Tenth of farmland to be axed for net zero
Solar farms, tree planting and wildlife habitats to replace food production as Labour deals fresh blow to rural life
This is EXTREMELLY painful to watch!
Labour MP Diana Johnson insists the #FarmersProtest will NOT change Labour's stance on taxing farmers out of existence.
She then arrogantly refuses to admit Labour lied.
A truly astonishing interview.
What a car crash! pic.twitter.com/dI3SSbs0hl— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) November 19, 2024
See South Africa. Katie Hopkins gets it.
More on the Westminster farmer protest on X
London Free Press- London cricket plant cuts two-thirds of workforce amid cash-flow crunch
Aspire Foods announced the jobs cuts Wednesday. About 50 workers remain at the plant in southeast London that opened in 2022 and received $8.5 million in federal government funding.
“It has been challenging. The company was ramping up but it became clear we needed to improve yields and we did not have cost structure” to improve production while keeping workers on site, he said.
“The mechanical systems were challenged, they were overloaded harvesting. We had crickets everywhere.”
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and what’s theirs is theirs and what’s yours is theirs.
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have declared war on small family farms like this one in my constituency.
Their inheritance tax raid will destroy rural communities.
We need them to think again. pic.twitter.com/XNovBqaTs9
— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) November 3, 2024
Companies that have paid to source agricultural produce that complies with the European Union’s anti-deforestation law would lose out if the EU decides to delay implementing the legislation by a year, industry groups and traders said.
Deforestation is the second largest source of the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change after the burning of fossil fuels, according to the European Commission. The EU had planned to ban the import of commodities from suppliers unable to prove their goods were not linked to deforestation.
The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) would have impacted imports of cocoa, coffee, cattle, soy, oil palm, timber, rubber and related products such as chocolate and leather.
It was scheduled to come into effect Dec. 30, but the EU Commission recently proposed a 12-month delay, under pressure from industries and governments who said it would cause supply chain disruptions, exclude poor, small-scale farmers from the EU market and drive up the cost of basic foodstuffs because many farmers and suppliers were not ready to comply.
The EU’s vegoil and oilmeal group Fediol said its members, which include trading giants such as Cargill and food processors such as AAK, will suffer losses from a delay after paying premiums to secure raw materials that comply with the law.
“It’s a financial loss they are making by having been ready on time,” Fediol director general Nathalie Lecocq said.
Cocoa processors and chocolate makers face the same scenario with traders saying they had sold deforestation free beans to them at a premium of up to six per cent.
The premium will now likely fall to zero because consumers won’t be willing to pay more for cocoa that complies with a law that has been pushed back.
Related: Trudeau’s Anti-Growth Agenda Chokes the Life Out of Local Economies
By 2050, Britain will be a Muslim nation, so good luck with that, buddy.
Britain must cut its meat and dairy consumption by up to 50pc to meet the latest net zero targets, the Government’s climate watchdog has said.
The Climate Change Committee said in an ideal scenario, meat and dairy consumption should halve by 2050 and products be substituted with plant-based options.
The proposals are part of new net zero targets that have been recommended to Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary.
In a letter to Mr Miliband, the committee said the Government must cut CO2 emissions by 81pc by 2035 when compared to the benchmark year of 1990. This would amount to a reduction of 200m tonnes from the current level of 384m tonnes.
Piers Forster, the CCC’s chairman, said persuading British consumers to change their diets would play a key role in achieving such massive cuts.
Mr Forster did not specify how the UK could reduce meat eating but options could include reducing subsidies for livestock, taxing meat products and a clampdown by regulators on advertising.
One that eats more beef and less soy.
Bill C-293 is arguably the most concerning legislation I've seen in 25 years. Under the guise of pandemic preparedness, it grants the government excessive power to potentially reduce meat consumption in favour of promoting plant-based diets.
My chat with @SenatorWallin. ⬇️ https://t.co/CygnAQfw5D
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) September 29, 2024
International Business Times- British Surgeon Blames Daughter’s Vegan Diet For Her Suicide; Lack Of A Key Vitamin ‘Made Her Psychotic’
Owen maintains that vitamin B12 deficiency can significantly increase the risk of severe cognitive disorders like depression, psychosis, and dementia. Additionally, he asserts that it can lead to diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. Scientific research supports his claims.
Sun- Is Bill C-293 Canada’s ‘Vegan Act’?
Under this bill, public health officials could have the authority to close facilities they consider “high risk,” such as meatpacking plants, during pandemics and even “mandate” the consumption of vegetable proteins by Canadians — measures that border on the absurd. It’s hardly surprising that the private member who introduced Bill C-293 is Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, who is known for his vegan lifestyle.
Blacklock’s- Gov’t Polls On Meatless Diets
In-house Privy Council researchers have polled Canadians’ willingness to adopt a vegetarian diet for the sake of climate change. Only seven percent of people surveyed identified themselves as vegetarian or vegan.
A United Nations report Healthy Diets For A Healthier Planet blames livestock, poultry and seafood production for emitting greenhouse gases. “Red meat, dairy and farmed shrimp are generally associated with the highest greenhouse gas emissions,” said Healthier Planet. “This is because meat production often requires extensive grasslands which is often created by cutting down trees.”
Research out of Tufts University three years ago created the Food Compass—a new guide to what is healthy that rivals the Food Pyramid for sheer lunacy. Advising us that Froot Loops and Pringles are healthier choices than meat and eggs, the authors of that research are now promoting ESG + Nutrition, in which their Food Compass informs governments and private enterprise on how to get the population of the world to follow along.
Blacklock’s- Fear Climate Food Shortages
Canadians fear climate change will lead to food shortages here, says in-house Privy Council research.
Researchers specifically asked focus group participants if they worried about climate change in Canada. Participants were not told the country is self-sufficient in agricultural and seafood production.
Canadian food exports totaled $99 billion last year, by official estimate. Canada is the world’s 8th largest exporter of farm, fish and seafood products. “Canada simply grows more agricultural commodities and produces more food than its population is capable of consuming,” Farm Credit Canada, a federal bank, wrote in a July 26 commentary.