In one year kernels, which are largely grown in either the US or Iran, have surged from $7.65 a pound to around $10.30 a pound, Giles Hacking, from nut trader CG Hacking, told the Financial Times.

A proposed change to P.E.I.’s Lands Protection Act is getting pushback from a land advocacy group and an MLA who say it doesn’t fix the biggest problems with how land is bought and controlled in the ...