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F.A.R.M.S. President reflects on 2023 growing season, readying for 2024

While the 2023 Canadian growing season has come and gone, farmers and leaders in the agricultural sector are taking stock of the season and making preparations for the coming year. Ken Forth currently serves as the President of the Foreign Agricultural Resource Management Service, a program that facilitates temporary migrant workers from Mexico and the Caribbean being employed in Canada.

“It was a weird year for outdoor guys,” Forth shared in a recent sit-down with The Niagara Independent. “It was really wet, not particularly warm at times, either… but it ended up not going too badly, all things considered,”

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Crombie Wins – Yawn

In a very lacklustre race for the Ontario Liberal leadership, this past weekend Bonnie Crombie – the consistent frontrunner throughout the leadership contest…

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Toronto Maple Leafs and Buffalo Sabres at the quarter pole of NHL season

The 82-game, per team, National Hockey League schedule has reached the quarter pole.

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Ontario Premier and Toronto Mayor Forge Landmark $9B Deal

The impression often left by Toronto city council over the years is that it always seems to be looking for ways to obstruct the free flow of traffic, as far as car drivers are concerned.

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Ford’s five-year report card

It’s time to grade Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s record after half a decade in office.

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Canada at COP28: The Burning Ring of Fire

Last week, the biggest United Nations climate conference, Conference of Parties (COP) 28, kicked off in the United Arab Emirates.

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Trudeau’s perversion of justice: Deconstructing Canada (part 3)

Justice in a post-national state is at the behest of the country’s Leader. Not that the country’s legal system has yet devolved into a totalitarian chokehold on justice…

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Heddle Shipyard investing $107 million in St. Catharines manufacturing operations

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Heddle Shipyards, the biggest ship repair and construction company located on the Great Lakes, has announced a $107 million investment into advancing initiatives at Port Weller Dry Docks in St. Catharines. The investment is projected to create thirty additional positions for Niagara workers.

“The Port Weller Dry Docks have a long and rich history of building and repairing ships in St. Catharines,” Niagara West Member of Provincial Parliament Sam Oosterhoff said. “This investment by Heddle Shipyards, with support from the province, will grow local manufacturing and create more good-paying jobs for workers and families in Niagara.”

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Local spots to pick up a fresh cut Christmas tree this holiday season

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Choosing a fresh Christmas tree to bring home to decorate is a tradition for many families in Ontario.

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St. Catharines awarded 2024 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship

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The Canadian Mixed Curling Championship is returning to Ontario for the first time in eight years in 2024…

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Is Diversity Our Strength?

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Canada has long been known as a multicultural nation which has always welcomed immigration.

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Google and Canada end dispute over online news payments

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Google has agreed to pay Canadian news publishers for their content, ending a months-long standoff over the Online News Act…

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Poilievre sparring with another journalist is much ado about nothing

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Much to the mainstream media’s chagrin, it turns out 2023 was not the year civility returned to political discourse.

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How the Media Distorts Biden v Trump

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Ronald Reagan once observed, “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”

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