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Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Four migrants working as fruit pickers in slave-like conditions in southern Italy were burned to death …
Read More »P.E.I. farm income dropped sharply in 2025 as historic drought and rising costs hit hard
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Prince Edward Island farmers made significantly less money in 2025 as a historic drought and rising …
Read More »Her family hid his father on their farm during WW II. They just met for the 1st time
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. When Dina Van Dommelen-Samson and Nico Peltenburg met for the first time earlier this month, it …
Read More »My country has been ‘ripped apart,’ Jamaican farm worker says as people in Niagara call out for help
Rohan Thompson was keeping a close eye on Melissa from St. Catharines, Ont., where he works as a temporary farm worker, as the Category 5 hurricane approached his homeland earlier this week. The seasonal farm worker from Jamaica’s Clarendon parish has been in Canada since April, and is scheduled to …
Read More »CFIA confirms death of ostrich with ‘pre-existing condition’ at B.C. farm
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says an ostrich that was part of a B.C. flock that was recently issued a last-minute stay of a cull order by the Supreme Court of Canada has died. The agency says the bird at Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, B.C., had a previous injury and a pre-existing condition that impacted …
Read More »B.C. ostrich farm loses appeal to save birds from cull in case that attracted White House attention
A B.C. ostrich farm has lost its case to save its birds from a cull order issued by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) in January. But the farm’s owners say they will not be giving up, and have called on supporters to gather with them this weekend to “stand …
Read More »This Canadian ‘content farm’ topped the politics charts on YouTube — before it was taken down
A YouTube account that was the most popular Canada-based news and politics channel during much of the 2025 federal election has been taken down by YouTube, following inquiries from CBC News’s visual investigations team and Radio-Canada’s Décrypteurs. Real Talk Politiks regularly published confrontational, partisan video clips about politics that have …
Read More »How the Dutch built the world’s largest freshwater wind farm
Viewed from above, 89 wind turbines form a striking hexagon of white pinpoints against dark blue water. What makes Windpark Fryslân unusual isn’t just its shape, but the fact that the offshore wind farm isn’t far out in the ocean. It’s just six kilometres from a shore dotted with villages in …
Read More »These former farm workers won a standards case in B.C. They told CBC about their working conditions
Stephanie Ramirez says she worked 15-hour shifts and drank up to three Monster Energy drinks a day to keep herself going. Until one day, her body gave out and she collapsed on the job. Ramirez is a Guatemalan farm worker whose story Canadians might not ordinarily hear. But CBC News …
Read More »The Israel-Hamas war has wiped out most of Gaza’s farm land. The environmental costs are adding up
The Israel-Hamas war has devastated Gaza in ways that may be irreversible — and a picture of the environmental harm is only just beginning to emerge, as violence spreads across the region. Israel has dropped thousands of bombs, wiping out most of Gaza’s tree cover and agricultural land in addition to …
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