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Potato wart outbreak leads to Canada stopping its spuds from heading to U.S.

by Lily Jamali
Dec 24, 2021
Every year, Canada ships enough potatoes to starch up about 9 million Americans.
A potato wart outbreak has lead to an potato export ban from the Canada to the U.S.
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Pandemic highlights poor conditions for some of Canada's farmworkers

by Emma Jacobs
Aug 10, 2021
The country is starting to beef up inspections and is looking at a process to set standards for housing farmworkers who are in the country on temporary visas.
The pandemic has highlighted the poor living and working conditions some temporary farmworkers in Canada experience.
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Canadian businesses prepare for more U.S. visitors

by Matt Levin
Jul 16, 2021
It’s been a tough year and a half for Canadian border towns dependent on U.S. tourists.
The gates at an Ontario, Canada, crossing site are closed, but the border could reopen as soon as mid-August.
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Canada's agricultural worker program is under scrutiny amid the pandemic

by Emma Jacobs
Jun 14, 2021
COVID-19 raised questions about the working and living conditions for some of the country's immigrant workers.
Farm workers fill up bins in the back of a truck with zucchini.
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Maple syrup season brings challenges for Canada's "sugar shacks"

by Emma Jacobs
Apr 7, 2021
The shacks that traditionally offer an indoor, communal dining experience have had to go to a "take-home" model during COVID.
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For some U.S.-Canadian couples, the pandemic has meant unwanted separation

by Emma Jacobs
Sep 29, 2020
Travel restrictions have resulted in some couples having to choose between keeping jobs and seeing loved ones.
Canadians can still fly to the U.S. But to do so could mean risking one's health or job.
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Trump brings back tariff on Canadian aluminum, one month after USMCA takes effect

by Nova Safo
Aug 7, 2020
The president says Canada is flooding the U.S. with imported aluminum and undercutting American companies.
President Donald Trump speaks to workers at a Whirlpool manufacturing facility on Aug. 6, 2020 in Clyde, Ohio.
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Canada's iconic maple syrup may face climate change challenges

by Emma Jacobs
Jul 1, 2020
It's made with sap harvested from sugar maple trees — and those trees may be threatened by rising temperatures.
Délices Érable & Cie, in Montreal, carries 360 different maple-based products. A changing climate changes the long-term prospects for Canada's sugar maples.
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Some communities feel the pinch as U.S. and Canada close border to nonessential travel

by Emma Jacobs
Mar 27, 2020
Some businesses seeing fewer customers from the other side of the border.
The U.S.-Canada border is closed to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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Moving away from carbon, with help from Canada

by David Brancaccio
Mar 3, 2020
Wind and solar resources in New England and New York fluctuate. One way to manage this uncertainty is trading with Quebec.
Several states in the northeast of America have committed to decarbonizing their electricity grids in the next 20 to 30 years.
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