Ian Aftermath Even Harder to Fix With Supply Chain Tattered September 30, 2022 By Jen Skerritt and Olivia Rockeman The difficult job of rebuilding communities pummeled by Hurricane Ian is expected to be made even worse by a problem...
Canada Crop Land ‘Deteriorating’ as Heavy Rain Hinders Planting May 19, 2022 By Jen Skerritt Farmers in parts of Canada’s Prairies are struggling to get crops in the ground as heavy rains continue to wallop...
Extreme Weather Threatens Global Wheat Crops – With One Notable Exception May 12, 2022 By Megan Durisin, Kim Chipman, Jen Skerritt and James Poole As Russia’s invasion chokes off Ukrainian wheat exports, pushing up bread and noodle prices, the global harvest faces an added...
Farm Workers Getting Sick, Spreading Coronavirus As Peak Produce Season Begins May 29, 2020 By Mike Dorning and Jen Skerritt All of the roughly 200 employees on a produce farm in Tennessee tested positive for Covid-19 this month. In New...
Meat Workers Taking Leave, Quitting as Plants Reopen Amid Coronavirus Scare May 6, 2020 By Jen Skerritt and Lydia Mulvany America’s meat-processing plants are starting to reopen but not all workers are showing up. Some still fear they’ll get sick...
Canada Delays Sales of Recreational Cannabis in Retail Stores as Legalization Looms August 14, 2018 By Kristine Owram and Jen Skerritt Canada’s largest province is delaying the launch of private marijuana sales in bricks-and-mortar stores until April 2019, nearly six months...
Some Recreational Cannabis Products to Remain Banned Under New Canada Law July 18, 2018 By Jen Skerritt and Josh Wingrove A key segment of Canada’s marijuana industry will remain banned for up to a year after the drug becomes legal...
Legal Marijuana Worries Canadian Oil Companies with Strict Drug Testing Regimes February 1, 2018 By Jen Skerritt and Kevin Orland Once recreational marijuana becomes legal in Canada, Garnet Amundson says it will get a lot harder to find the workers...
British Columbia’s Wildfires Threaten Lumber Supplies, Force Mine Closures July 18, 2017 By Jen Skerritt Wildfires sweeping across British Columbia, the world’s biggest exporter of softwood lumber, sent timber prices surging and forced the closure...
300-Plus Canadian Wildfires Force Closures of Lumber Mills, Natural Gas Facility July 12, 2017 By Danielle Bochove, Natalie Obiko Pearson and Jen Skerritt More than 300 wildfires in British Columbia have forced Canadian lumber mills and an Enbridge Inc. natural gas compressor station...