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Pedersen Monitoring Flooding In Southeast Manitoba

Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development Minister Blaine Pedersen is conversing with his colleagues in the southeast about the flooding situation.
 
"Crops have been flooded out and pasture land and the roads are a concern in order to get feed into livestock barns and to check on livestock," he said. "For personal security too, when roads get washed out it can cause some real angst for families."
 
Pedersen says it's still too early to say if financial assistance will be made available.
 
He's considering a trip to the area to assess the situation.
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Dr. Peter James Facchini leads research into the metabolic biochemistry in opium poppy at the University of Calgary. For more than 30 years, his work has contributed to the increased availability of benzylisoquinoline alkaloid biosynthetic genes to assist in the creation of morphine for pharmaceutical use. Dr. Facchini completed his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Biological Sciences at the University of Toronto before completing Postdoctoral Fellowships in Biochemistry at the University of Kentucky in 1992 & Université de Montréal in 1995.