The Corby Board of Directors is pleased to declare a dividend of $0.21 per Voting Class A Common Share and Non-Voting Class B Common Share of the Company, in excess of the Company's dividend policy and normalizing to pre-pandemic levels. This dividend is payable on June 6, 2023 to shareholders of record as at the close of business on May 23, 2023.
In the past 24 hours alone, 16 new fires have ignited in Alberta, Wildfire Information Unit Lead Christie Tucker said during a Sunday evening news conference. Fighters across the province are still battling 98 wildfires, 27 of which were burning "out of control," according to Alberta officials.
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April is BC Wine month and that means it's officially wine season, with wineries across the South Okanagan reopening their doors to welcome locals and tourists-alike.
The deal, which is being described as a natural alignment and shared vision between the Blue Grouse team and the next generation of the Jackson family, has been heralded as a "dedication to environmental stewardship".
On April 3 through 5, 2023, fifteen esteemed professional wine judges from Western Canada gathered in Penticton to participate on a blind tasting panel for the British Columbia Lieutenant Governor's Wine Awards competition to choose the best wines in our province.
British Columbia's wine industry is projecting a significant reduction in wine grape production this year because of a prolonged cold snap over the winter that damaged vineyards right across the Okanagan Valley, the province's main wine producing region. Initial projections by Wine Growers B.C. forecast a 39 to 56 per cent drop in wine and grape production this year as a result of a two day-long dip in temperatures below minus 20 C across the region in late December last year, according to CEO Miles Prodan.
Sumac Ridge served as a hub for the B.C. wine industry after it was opened as the first operating estate winery in the province by wine pioneers Harry McWatters and Lloyd Schmidt in 1980.
Nova Scotia's wine industry is worried the province is not acting fast enough to bring in a new policy to replace a special tax break for local growers.
Other municipalities have embraced it. Now, a city councillor says it's time for Vancouver to allow B.C. wine to be sold on grocery store shelves, and checked out at regular cashiers. "We think Vancouverites are ready to have this," said Coun. Mike Klassen. "Vancouver is really just trying to catch up with what all of its neighbours have been doing."
Mission Hill Family Estate is excited to announce the artists for its highly anticipated summer concert series. For the first time, the series includes five concerts of award-winning Canadian and American artists.
"Mack" gained a great deal of infamy when it was discovered that hundreds of wine reviews on her website had been lifted from other websites and wine reviewers. In a new book, she's painting it as, "an online mob of rivals comes for her career."
Ontario's VQA Wine and Grape Industry's newly released 2030 Vision anticipates substantial growth in this important sector of the provincial economy, fueling increases in investment, market share, jobs and related tourism.
Canadians appear to be losing their taste for alcohol, according to findings in a new report that showed beer and wine sales at historic lows. Wine sales decreased by 4 percent from 2021-22, the largest decrease ever recorded by Statistics Canada.
The federal government is set to raise its excise tax rates on alcohol by 6.3 per cent, thanks to legislation passed in 2017, which automatically raises excise tax rates annually by the rate of inflation.
On Saturday, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) said they are issuing a recall of certain lots of Louis Latour Pinot Noir after the supplier said glass particles may be present in the wine. The affected product is 375 millilitres, and the CFIA noted that the Pinot Noir's vintage is from 2021.