Agropur buys Scotsburn

Nova Scotia dairy company Scotsburn Co-operative Services has sold its business to the Quebec dairy giant Agropur Co-operative.

Scotsburn says Agropur will continue to employ the company’s 260 full-time and part-time unionized employees in the Maritimes and Quebec…but there’s no word on the fate of 100 non-union employees. The selling price hasn’t been disclosed.

Another billionaire appointed by Trump

A prominent critic of NAFTA has been appointed by Donald Trump to be in charge of the commerce Portfolio in the cabinet.

79 year old Wilbur Ross, a billionaire investor condemns foreign sales taxes as a backdoor tariff on American goods.  Ross is just the latest in a number of billionaire businessmen appointed by Trump.