COTA has a large presence at SIAL Canada taking place this week in Toronto. COTA is part of the “Expert Hub” featuring organic experts from our staff and Board at Booth #1752. In addition, COTA has coordinated two great conference sessions. Today, COTA’s Executive Director Matthew Holmes and OTA’s Associate Director of International Trade Monique [...]
CFIA has announced the next phase of its consultation on the proposed Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (SFCR), with a special focus on the impacts for micro and small businesses. This will supplement the previous two rounds of consultations held in 2013 and 2014 on a new regulatory framework and approach for bringing the Safe [...]
COTA’s 2015 Annual Fund is in its final phase, but we are still 25 percent short of our $110,000 goal. COTA’s Annual Fund directly supports our work not covered by member dues alone: to promote and protect organic in the media, with government, and with consumers. 2015 will see massive change and challenges for the Canadian sector as new organic [...]
The City of Montreal has announced it plans to transform an abandoned park into an organic farm as part of a collaboration to feed the poor. By 2019, organizers are hoping to transform up to 24 hectares, to produce 250,000 bags of vegetables. Half of the harvest will be sent to food banks, and the [...]
SIAL Canada is right around the corner, and COTA has coordinated two great conference sessions. On Tuesday, April 28, at 1:30 p.m., COTA’s Executive Director Matthew Holmes and OTA’s Associate Director of International Trade Monique Marez, will speak on “The Canadian and U.S. organic markets: statistics and emerging trends,” covering their trade relationship as well as market [...]
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