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INCREASING CONNECTIVITY: WHAT THE FUTURE OF ERP IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY LOOKS LIKE
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
Although ERP systems have long been present in the food industry – at least for large multinational companies – the sector’s increasing competitiveness, and focus on regulation and traceability is really propelling the adoption of these systems. And as ERP systems continue to become an integral part of food sector, experts in the industry are predicting the emergence of certain trends.…
INCREASING CONNECTIVITY: WHAT THE FUTURE OF ERP IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY LOOKS LIKE
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
Although ERP systems have long been present in the food industry – at least for large multinational companies – the sector’s increasing competitiveness, and focus on regulation and traceability is really propelling the adoption of these systems. And as ERP systems continue to become an integral part of food sector, experts in the industry are predicting the emergence of certain trends.…
EXPANDING PRESCRIBING POWERS FOR NURSES IN THE UK AND CANADA
BY KITTY SO, IN OTTAWA
BRITISH nurses are not alone in receiving wider prescribing powers that would include special classes of government regulated drugs, considered prone to greater potential for abuse: Canadian nurses are also gaining similar responsibilities.
The UK government changed legislation in April, to expand the prescribing and drug mixing powers of pharmacists and nurses to cover ‘controlled drugs,’ which the government falling under two legislations: the Medicines Act, managed by the UK Department of Health, and the Misuse of Drugs Act, which is controlled by the Home Office.…
BRITISH COLUMBIA SCRAP EXPORT RULES TO BE TIGHTENED
BY KITTY SO, IN OTTAWA
Scrap metal dealers in the Pacific coast Canadian province of British Columbia will face tighter regulations from July 23, as its government struggles with widespread thefts of high-value metals. Henceforth, British Columbian dealers trying to sell metals including aluminum, bronze, brass, lead, nickel, zinc and magnesium – often targeted by thieves – will need to provide identification.…
PROPOSED CANADIAN GOLD AND COPPER PROJECT, ONE OF COUNTRY'S LARGEST, UNDER SECOND ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
BY KITTY SO, IN OTTAWA
The Canadian minister of the environment has established a three-member review panel to assess, for the second time, the environmental impact of a proposed project at one of Canada’s largest undeveloped gold-copper deposits.
Its probe will consider a proposed 20-year development of the New Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project in British Columbia, located north of Vancouver about 125 km southwest of Williams Lake, by Vancouver -based mining company Taseko.…
CANADA INVESTIGATES ALLEGED STEEL PIPE DUMPING FROM CHINA
BY MJ DESCHAMPS, IN OTTAWA
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is initiating investigations into alleged "injurious" dumping and subsidising of certain steel piping manufactured in or exported from China.
The probe follows a complaint issued by Ontario’s Atlas Tube Canada Inc.…
CANADA'S CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS STIL LPROTECTING MINORITY LANGUAGE EDUCATION
BY LEAH GERMAIN
IT is now 30 years since Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms came into being – and the rights it entrenched for Canadian citizens are still being used to defend minority language communities. Only this year, the Prince Edward Island French language school board has used its language provisions to support a lawsuit it has filed against the provincial government.…
CANADA'S DUAL IDENTITY FINDS ITS PLACE IN THE INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING INDUSTRY; BUT FRENCH LITERATURE CAN TAKE A BACKSEAT
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
IN comparison to larger publishing hubs such as France, the USA or Britain, Canada’s literary market has always been regarded as relatively small in global terms. And at a time when the hard copy publishing industry is struggling as a whole, there have been some concerns that Canada’s two official languages – which effectively split an already undersized book market – could be further exacerbating pressures.…
CANADIAN MYSTERY AUTHOR ENRICHES HER MURDER TALES WITH FRENCH AND ENGLISH CANADIAN CULTURE
BY MJ DESCHAMPS, IN OTTAWA
FOR a stranger living in a strange land, Louise Penny does not feel so out of place – the Toronto-born, Anglophone writer cannot imagine calling anywhere home then Québec’s Eastern Townships.
Penny, the author behind the successful Chief Inspector Armand Gamache mystery series (set primarily in the fictional Québec village of Three Pines) has drawn on her own experience as an Anglophone living in a primarily Francophone community to paint a backdrop for the majority of her works.…
'HIGH STANDARDS' TO BE MAINTAINED DESPITE CANADA FOOD INSPECTOR FIRINGS
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
CANADA’s food industry is putting on a brave face after the sacking of approximately 100 government food inspectors this week due to major federal government budget cutbacks, telling just-food that high health standards will be maintained.
"Our food safety system includes robust screening and monitoring by both government agencies and industry," said Susan Abel, senior director of product safety and trade regulation at industry association Food and Consumer Products of Canada, in response to the cuts.…