WATERLOO, Ont. — While Ontarians have been enjoying Maritime beer like Alexander Keith’s and Moosehead for quite some time, the Waterloo Ont.-based Brick Brewing Company is set to return the favour. The company has recently announced a sales agent agreement with AMCA Sales & Marketing for Atlantic Canada, which will continue to December 31, 2012.

Under the sales agent agreement AMCA will represent Brick brands like Red Barron, Red Cap and Formosa Springs Draft in Atlantic Canada.

STEPHENVILLE, N.L. — In another round of economic stimulus from the Government of Canada’s Economic Action Plan, the Feds are providing $400,000 to upgrade the Newfoundland Feed Grains Society facility in Stephenville. The funding comes from the Community Adjustment Fund (CAF).

The announcement was made Monday by Senator Ethel Cochrane on behalf of Keith Ashfield, minister of National Revenue, minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) and minister for the Atlantic Gateway. “The CAF program is specifically designed to help communities build through the current economic downturn by seizing new and sustainable development opportunities,” said Senator Cochrane. “This project has significant support from the farming industry and is expected to have a positive and lasting impact on the Stephenville area. [It] will help generate immediate local economic activity by supporting direct and indirect employment opportunities during the installation of the new equipment.”

It seems Newfoundland and Labrador MP Gerry Byrne thinks that the pie PETA-activist Emily McCoy threw in the face of Fisheries and Oceans Minister Gail Shea on Monday, is reason to consider giving the animal-rights group a terrorist label.

"There has to be a review whether or not PETA has crossed the line now by attacking a federal minister of the Crown for the purpose of public intimidation of an office-holder," Byrne told CBC News.

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Food writer Karl Wells has just made the search for a good restaurant in St. John’s a little easier with his recent round-up of the Top 10 eateries of 2009 in The Telegram.

This year a couple of winning restaurant re-locations and ethnic influenced mainstays made the list, along with good culinary exposure for the city with the Gold Medal Plates Olympic Gala dinner hosted in St. John’s featuring eight local chefs.