Apiaries Abuzz Over Ruling Against Widening Cross-Border Trade in Live Honeybees

Apiaries Abuzz Over Ruling Against Widening Cross-Border Trade in Live Honeybees
A beekeeper tends to her hives near Bowmanville, Ontario on July 10, 2021. The Canadian Press/Doug Ives
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The dismissal of a class-action lawsuit over rules governing the cross-border live bee trade is casting a spotlight on political division within Canada’s beekeeping community.

A federal judge has ruled against awarding commercial beekeepers damages from a decades-old partial ban on shipping live honeybees across the Canada-U.S. border, which is in place out of concerns that could bring in aggressive pests and diseases.