iPolitics By Kelsey Johnson. Published on Mar 12, 2021 11:18am Cows in a field in Joyceville, Ont., in June 2018. iPolitics/Matthew Usherwood
Good day and welcome to the Sprout, where it’s National Baked Scallops Day. Your host, who is not a seafood fan (#SorryNotSorry), thinks she might just skip ahead to tomorrow’s holidays: National Gingerale Day and National Coconut Torte Day.
For those of you more in the snacking mood, Sunday is National Potato Chip Day.
Here’s today’s agriculture news.
The Lead
The Scientific Commission of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) has determined Canada’s application to change its bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) status from a controlled-risk country to one of negligible risks meets the necessary requirements and has sent its recommendation to the broader OIE delegation, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada says.
Saskatoon girl s PB+J toy design to be manufactured by IKEA What could be better than PB&J? I know that this raises the big question does this get us any closer to an IKEA in Saskatoon?
Author of the article: Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Publishing date: Mar 10, 2021 • March 10, 2021 • 1 minute read • Nine-year-old Audrey from Saskatoon is among the winners of the annual IKEA Family Soft Toy Drawing Competition. Sandwich Friends will be one of five designs turned into a real life soft toy that will be available for purchase in the fall. Photo from the IKEA Canada Facebook page.
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A Saskatoon girl’s drawing of two slices of bread slathered in peanut butter and jelly and holding hands will be turned into a soft toy and sold by IKEA later this year.