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The Grain Growers of Canada are partnering with Corteva Agriscience as they focus on the 'Road to 2050' climate initiative.

The 'Road to 2050' will propose a path forward that identifies opportunities for the sector to continue reducing its contributions to greenhouse gas emissions.
  
Bryce Eger, President of Corteva Agriscience Canada says they believe climate positive agriculture is the way forward, where collective actions and commitments create a stronger and more productive food system.

Another class has raked in quite a haul of prizes in the MIX 107 Classroom of the Month contest!

Congrats to Mrs. Ekdahl's kindergarten class at St. John XXIII School in Fort Saskatchewan! 

Dreamcatchers Gift & Art Gallery is looking for help to complete a work of art they call their 'masterpiece'.

Their art piece, which displays an Indigenous headdress made from real feathers, was originally made for Indigenous Day at Legacy Park as a quick activity for the kids.

"We were invited maybe two weeks before the event. They said 'You'll have about three hundred students come through. You'll have groups of 30 for about three minutes. What can you do with them in that time?'" said Ellie Lagrandeur, owner of Dreamcatchers Gift & Art Gallery.

Mounties have arrested a man after a six-hour standoff on Wednesday (Oct. 19) afternoon. 

Police say they were initially called to Kingsway Estates in Beaver County just before noon after receiving reports of a man shooting a gun.

Strathcona County RCMP arrived to assist; a shelter in place order was placed, and nearby homes were evacuated to contain the area. 

The Alberta RCMP Emergency Response Team, Police Dog Service, and Edmonton Police Service Air One were also on the scene. 

Delegates from Canada and the U-S, gathered in Mexico this week for the 31st Annual Tri-National Agricultural Accord.

Among the representatives from Canada, Manitoba's Agriculture Minister Derek Johnson, Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister David Marit and Senior Officials from Alberta's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Economic Development.

Johnson says the meetings marked an opportunity for senior state and provincial officials to work collaboratively on agriculture and trade issues.

Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney says a global recession is likely, making it challenging for Canada to avoid a similar economic downturn. 

While testifying before the Senate banking committee on Thursday, Carney said Canada may fare better than others because of mitigating factors such as the country's ties to the U.S. as well as the strong labour market recovery after the pandemic.

A senior Ontario Provincial Police officer is expected to be cross-examined this morning at the federal government's inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act.

Supt. Craig Abrams told the commission yesterday that his officers saw dysfunction in the ranks of the Ottawa Police Service even from the early days of the protest. 

He said Ottawa police failed to come up with an operational plan and were not properly deploying OPP officers sent to Ottawa to help patrol the "Freedom Convoy" protests in February.

A study suggests lower-income and younger people may be more at risk of developing lung cancer long-term because they can't afford to remove radon gas from their homes.

The study, from a multidisciplinary team of cancer researchers at the University of Calgary and University of British Columbia, was published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports at Nature.com.

The researchers interviewed those living in nearly 3,000 households across Canada who had tested for and found radon in their homes.

The "Freedom Convoy" had gridlocked Canada's capital city for more than two weeks before the "floundering" Ottawa police force approved a detailed plan to handle it, senior police officers have told the public inquiry into the Liberal government's use of the Emergencies Act.

Patricia Ferguson, the acting deputy chief of the Ottawa police, said Thursday that the force assumed protesters would not stay longer than a weekend and relied at first on a boilerplate plan that had been used for other downtown events involving big crowds, such as Canada Day celebrations.

Stories about those who lost their homes in last weekend's Woodsmere Close fire continue to pour in. 

Among the six families and people who lost their homes was Greg Brunsgaard, an active-duty officer with the Canadian military. 

Brunsgaard was out of the country on duty when he got the news.

"I was overseas, and in the UK," said Brunsgaard. "I got a phone call from my neighbour and he told me that there was a fire and that I might have a bit of smoke damage."