Local egg production in Whitehorse is ramping up now that the territory has an egg-grading station in operation. The Farmer Robert's store set up the grading station earlier this year and in Octobe...

Amid a groundswell of demand from consumers and offers from rivals to serve antibiotic-free meats, McDonald’s Canada announced Monday that it will phase out chicken treated with antibiotics used on hu...

McDonald’s recent announcement that it will buy eggs for its Canadian restaurants from producers using free-run barns is a sign that the focus of animal welfare is not only on suffering but on animal ...

Canadian restaurants aren't holding out much hope that the massive new Pacific Rim trade deal will boost the availability of the antibiotic-free chicken their customers are increasingly craving. Th...

This week’s Trans-Pacific Partnership deal is a good one — indeed, it’s essential — if Canada is to continue to prosper through trade. But one narrow aspect of this broad deal the Conservatives are...

A Canadian businessman hopes to purchase a Bradley Street building owned by Renzi Foodservice and expand his chicken packaging business there. For about a year, Midway International Logistics LLC h...

Fire destroyed a poultry barn Sunday morning in Belmont. The chief of the Miscouche fire department said they were called to the scene at around 6 a.m. Jason Woodbury wasn't sure how many chicke...

Chickens are most commonly found in the cities of Waterloo Region after being pan-fried, deep-fried, baked, broiled, boiled into soup or chopped up and turned into nuggets. The domesticated fowl ar...

The top U.S. diplomat in Canada is wading into the debate over whether Ottawa is negotiating in good faith at major Pacific Rim trade talks, saying this country must come to the table as soon as possi...

The quarantine on 25 Oxford County poultry farms has been lifted after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency discovered avian flu on three farms in the area last April. A second quarantine remains in...

A Liverpool, N.S. man who's fighting city hall for the right to keep some chickens on his property is getting support from people in the community. And if beeping horns are a measure of that suppo...

Negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement are once again heating up, and as the historic deal nears completion, Canada is facing a tough decision. The U.S. Congress recently gra...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says several frozen uncooked breaded chicken products made by Sofina Foods Inc. are being recalled due to possible Salmonella contamination. The agency says ther...

Health Canada are releasing a statment on Sunday, reminding Canadians to take proper safety precautions when cooking frozen chicken products. The statement comes after the Public Health Agency trac...

The province’s 1,000-plus chicken farmers will be the first in Canada to use a shared online business system for transactions and records

Canada’s protected dairy and poultry industries are in the crosshairs of the United States and other farm export powers as momentum builds toward a massive Pacific Rim trade deal. Negotiations on t...

Some people have been crying foul over the lack of ethnic chicken in Canada. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz got an earful from customers who couldn't find particular poultry, a newly released docu...

Loblaw says it will “act quickly” in reviewing its ties with an Ontario poultry producer if the supplier is found to have lied about the origins of certified organic chicken sold in Loblaw and other s...

If you are what you eat, there’s no shortage of Canadians seeking eco-salvation through their stomachs. Walk through just about any grocery store and you’ll see ads for “local” produce, “free-run” ...

The Public Health Agency of Canada is investigating 41 cases of human illness in Western Canada that are believed to be tied to a single, undisclosed, Alberta poultry supplier. According to the Pub...

A farmer in Freetown, P.E.I. is offering chickens for rent for the summer. Sally Bernard of Barnyard Organics is offering customers a chicken coop and either two or four hens from June to October. ...

The pace of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations has accelerated over the past few weeks and they are entering their most critical phase to-date. We appreciate the Canadian government's on...

Canadian health authorities are investigating after 34 people became sick with salmonella infections after contact with live baby poultry, the country's Public Health Agency said on Monday. The age...

Some people have been crying foul over the lack of ethnic chicken in Canada. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz got an earful from customers who couldn't find particular poultry, a newly released docu...

City council has once again balked at the idea of allowing Calgarians to raise hens in their yards. The proposal to permit the chickens in 20 backyards for one year was scratched in a 9-6 vote on M...

An outbreak of bird flu in Southwestern Ontario that hit one part of its massive poultry industry has now surfaced in a larger one, with another quarantine slapped on an Oxford County chicken farm. ...

The business of getting the humble egg to the breakfast table is in flux across North America. In huevo-loving Mexico, which consumes more eggs per capita than anywhere in the world, the governmen...

The Feather Board Command Centre has issued a biosecurity advisory for Ontario poultry producers. The Centre points out the highly pathogenic avian influenza strain which recently infected a turkey...

With 10,000 turkeys dead due to the avian flu, and a further 35,000 euthanized as a result, other poultry farmers in Ontario are paying even more attention than usual to their own birds. “We’re all...

Federal regulators have expanded the containment zone after an outbreak of deadly bird flu in Southwestern Ontario’s poultry belt, putting 20 more poultry farms under quarantine. Sunday’s move by t...