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Agriculture disruptions caused by war in Ukraine could ‘escalate food insecurity globally,’ UN agency warns
Chinese candidate Qu Dongyu delivers his speech after being appointed as the new Director General of FAO during the 41st Conference in Rome, Sunday, June 23, 2019. China's agricultural deputy minister Qu Dongyu has been elected as the new director general of the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Qu is the first person from a Communist country to hold the FAO director-general's chair. (Riccardo Antimiani/ANSA via AP)
canada
Provincial watchdog estimates Ontario subsidies to cost nearly $120-billion over 20 years
Electricity pylons in the hydro corridor that runs through the Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood in Toronto, are photographed on Oct 14, 2021. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail. Metrolinx’s proposed Ontario Line will run adjacent to the corridor when completed.
canada
Ontario deficit expected to be smaller than projected, financial watchdog says
Ontario Financial Accountability Officer Peter Weltman answers questions in Toronto on Monday December 10, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
international business
World food prices jumped 28% to hit 10-year high in 2021
FILE - In this May 10, 2020 file photo, a shopper pushes his cart past a display of packaged meat in a grocery store in southeast Denver. U.S. wholesale prices edged up a slight 0.1% in November 2020 as weak demand caused by the pandemic has kept inflation at extremely low levels. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
canada
Ontario didn’t spend any money from COVID-19 response program in first quarter, fiscal watchdog says
Exteriors of Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario on May 31, 2018. Photo by Deborah Baic / The Globe and Mail
world
UN warns hunger is expected to rise in 23 global hot spots
international business
World food price index surges in May to highest level since 2011, UN agency says
A meat counter at a grocery store in Montreal, on April 30, 2020.
canada
Ontario two years behind goal of 15,000 new LTC beds by 2024, fiscal watchdog says
Crosses laid out on a lawn near the Camilla Care Community, a long term care home in Mississauga, Ont., are photographed on April 13 2020. Fifty residents of the facility have died of the coronavirus.
canada
COVID-19 news today: Ontario’s stay-at-home order may be extended past May 20, Elliott says
Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott speaks during the daily briefing at a mass vaccination centre in Toronto on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
opinion
Housing costs are a gaping hole in Canada’s social safety net – and it’s getting bigger
David Parkinson
canada
Ontario on track for years of postpandemic deficits barring a change in policy, fiscal watchdog says
The Ontario and Canadian flags fly at the Ontario Legislature Building, Queen's Park, in Toronto.
economy
Global food prices rose for the seventh consecutive month in December, UN agency says
A customer wearing a protective face mask shops inside a grocery store in Beirut, Lebanon December 7, 2020. Picture taken December 7, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
canada
Massive budget shortfalls projected for Ontario municipalities into 2021
Ontario Financial Accountability Officer Peter Weltman answers questions in Toronto on Dec. 10, 2018.
world
Ethiopian farmers battle worst locust invasion in 25 years
Ahmed Ibrahim, an Ethiopian farmer, attempts to fend off desert locusts as they fly in his khat farm on the outskirts of Jijiga, Ethiopia, on Jan. 12, 2020.
canada
Ontario’s fiscal watchdog warns second COVID-19 lockdown could slow province’s economic recovery
Empty retail businesses are seen on Queen St. East in Toronto, on Aug. 31, 2020.
canada
Wait-list for autism services grew to 27,600 children in Ontario last year: FAO
Hundreds of parents, therapists and union members gather outside Queen's Park, in Toronto, on March 7, 2019, to protest the provincial government's changes to Ontario's autism program.
international business
Food price index posts first monthly increase of 2020
A combine drives over stalks of soft red winter wheat during the harvest on a farm in Dixon, Ill., on July 16, 2013.
world
Second wave of locusts causing havoc in East Africa
In this photo taken Tuesday, March 31, 2020, desert locusts swarm over a tree in Kipsing, near Oldonyiro, in Isiolo county, Kenya. Weeks before the coronavirus spread through much of the world, parts of Africa were already threatened by another kind of plague, the biggest locust outbreak some countries had seen in 70 years, and now the second wave of the voracious insects, some 20 times the size of the first, is arriving. (Sven Torfinn/FAO via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT
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At least 32 African nations close borders, raising fears about critical aid deliveries
A Gauteng Health Department Official adjusts her gloves before collecting samples during a door-to-door COVID-19 testing drive, in Yeoville, Johannesburg, on April 3, 2020.
world
Somalia hit by worst desert locust invasion in 25 years
A desert locust feeds on crops in Laghouat, Algeria, in a July 29, 2004, file photo.