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P.E.I. is running out of potatoes

Kevin MacIsaac, right, general manager of the United Potato Growers of Canada, says the amount of potatoes in storage on Prince Edward Island right now is down 30 per cent from where it was last year. Ray Keenan, chair of the same group and a grower in Souris, says on top of that, the province is moving them off the Island far too quickly.

P.E.I. is running out of potatoes

Prince Edward Island is running out of potatoes.

Dave Stewart
January 26, 2012

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Peter Clark

Pacific trade talks challenging

Japan is the key for Canada in asking to be included in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations, says veteran Canadian negotiator and consultant Peter Clark of Ottawa,

Jim Romahn
January 26, 2012

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Howard Selig of Valley Flaxflour with his rice flour-based pancake mix. He’d like to replace the rice flour with locally produced gluten-free corn or soya flour. The idea could benefit local farmers and make use of underutilized land.

Valley Flaxflour Ltd. aims to grow local

A Middleton-based (Nova Scotia) entrepreneur is hoping to take his business idea beyond flax-finding.

Heather Killen
January 26, 2012

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Vaughn Hodgson, the general manager of Hodgson's Chipping Ltd. in East Mountain, Nova Scotia said the decision to close the chipping business wasn't an easy one but he doesn't think pulp mills in the province will survive.

Getting out while the getting's good

 [East Mountain, NS] - About 70 forestry workers will be out of the jobs this spring when Hodgson's Chipping Ltd. closes.

January 26, 2012

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Obituaries

AJ Post Gordon Dickie  

January 12, 2012

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