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New Executive Director For Agri-food Management Institute

The Agri-food Management Institute has a new Executive Director.

Alison Robertson took over the job this week.

She spent 11 years as the program manager for the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association.

The University of Toronto grad has also been a member of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Horticulture Value Chain Roundtable.

AMI promotes new ways of thinking about agribusiness management.

It gets it's funding from Growing Forward 2.

The AMI board includes representation from the primary agriculture, agriculture business and food processing sectors.

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Scoreboard, Nov. 14

Loads of local hockey action, and Canada punched a ticket to the semis of the IIHF Women's World Championship.