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Good day and welcome to the Sprout. Did you enjoy Canadian beer day? A little too much, you say? We’re just going to leave this piece from Bustle, here.

Here’s today’s agriculture news.

The Lead

On the attack on the campaign trail, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer told a group of journalists from ethnic media outlets that Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau further damaged Canada’s relationship following the SNC-Lavalin affair.

Scheer made that argument while he fielded questions, including several about Canada’s strained relationship with China, from a dozen journalists in Toronto.

“I believe that Trudeau really did weaken our position with China as it relates to the SNC-Lavalin scandal,” Scheer said.

“On the one hand, his message to the government of China with the case of the Huawei executive was that he could not interfere in the court case, that we have an independent proceeding when it comes to criminal-court proceedings. And then he turns around and attempts to interfere in a criminal court case for his own political purposes.”

Scheer’s comments are similar to those that came from a spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry in March, in response to a question from a journalist in a regular briefing.

A spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry suggested the same thing in March, in response to a question from a journalist in a regular briefing, according to Global News.

Around Town

The Canadian Mushroom Growers’ Association Canada on Wednesday released its election package asking the federal political parties to make economic immigration and access to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program a priority for farmers in rural Canada. Read their list of asks here.

In Canada

CBC News reports on criticism made by farmers toward the Manitoba government for changing the length of Crown land leases from a maximum of 50 years to 15 years. The Manitoba Beef Producers says it will make life harder for young farmers.

The overall trade deficit between Canada and the EU continues to increase two years after the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) came into force, according to a new study from the left-leaning Montreal-based research group Institut de recherche et d’informations socio-économiques, reported The Logic.

Internationally

Chemicals that are resistant to heat and don’t easily degrade are used in non-stick cookware, stain-resistant or water-resistant fabrics, and firefighting foams. They are now also found in soils, waterways and animals, and studies of U.S. adults and children have found these synthetic chemicals in the bloodstreams of 97 to 100 per cent of the population.

Diet is thought to be a key factor in how they end up in the body, prompting Laurel Schaider at the Silent Spring Institute in Massachusetts to investigate the effect of eating habits on PFAS levels in blood, which found that concentrations were lower in people who ate more meals at home, and higher among those who ate out or ate more fast food, reported New Scientist.

Noteworthy

Kicker

It’s a bit early for Halloween, but Kate McCormick had a bit of a scare when she found an egg in her bed. Her bed!

After calling all her friends to make sure it wasn’t a prank, Kate McCormick did some detective work and found the culprit.

“I realized, in fact, a chicken had come into the house that day, all on her own, and had not only laid an egg in my bed but had visited multiple rooms in my house,” McCormick told CBC News.

Until next time.