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Veterinarians without Borders/Vétérinaire sans frontièrs is actively seeking 13 Canadian professionals for international volunteer assignments as part of the Volunteers for Healthy Animals and Healthy Communities project. Three of those positions are for veterinarians, but the other 10 cover a wide range of skills and professions including dairy management, public health, financial management, food safety […]

Equine Infectious Anemia – Proposed Risk Management Strategy October 2015 EIA PRMS Follow up – Questions and Answers

Before the federal election, the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association provided the Liberal Party of Canada, and the other federal political parties, an opportunity to confirm its position on a number of priority issues concerning the veterinary profession that pertains to animal health and welfare, public health and food safety. CVMA will use the responses to

Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) has issued a revision to the Canadian Quality Milk (CQM) program’s Workbook and Reference Manual. The new version is dated September 2015, which replaces the June 2010 version. The CQM program is transitioning to the Food Safety component of proAction®, DFC’s quality assurance program, so the new book is titled

There have been rabies positive bats found in the Saskatoon and Rosthern areas in the last couple of weeks. One case involved human exposure as you may have seen on the news or in the paper. Clients should be reminded to bring their pets’ rabies vaccination status up to date. Click for August 2015 Monthly

Yesterday, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) informed the provincial Chief Veterinary Officers that 3 bovines were confirmed to have Bluetongue Disease (BT) in the south western part of Ontario, approximately 100 km from the US border. The first animal was found through the national surveillance program on a sample collected August 7th. On September