CHARLOTTETOWN—The federal government will spend $28 million to help Prince Edward Island farmers deal with a growing surplus of potatoes as an almost month-long export ban to the United States continues. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau told a news conference on Monday the funding will be used to create more potato processing capacity in Canada and…
Ottawa Announces $28 Million to Help PEI Potato Growers Cope With Export Ban
December 21, 2021
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Tenacious Belgian Immigrant Pioneered Canada’s Mussel Industry in the 1970s
CHARLOTTETOWN—When Joe Van Den Bremt first floated the idea of producing cultured mussels on P.E.I. in the 1970s, the local fishermen laughed at him. “They were all telling me, ’We use that stuff for fertilizer,’” he said in 2017. “’Nobody is going to eat those dumb things.’” Today, almost half of North America’s succulent supply…
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