What the battle over cattle traceability reveals about Canada’s regulatory regime and innovation gap
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What the battle over cattle traceability reveals about Canada’s regulatory regime and innovation gap
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14 MAY 2026
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Two decades after the mad cow disease (BSE) crisis devastated Canada’s cattle industry and exposed major weaknesses in how farm animals are tracked and monitored, a former Alberta oilpatch IT project manager is trying to modernize the system with a rugged handheld computer designed for muddy corrals and remote pastures with no cell service.
Instead, he has found himself in the middle of one of the most politically explosive fights in rural Cana…
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