Cereal Research Centre: Robyn Benson

University Of Manitoba Dept: THE federal government is closing the Cereal Research Centre at the University of Manitoba as part of a wide range of job cuts across the civil service, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Its closure will occur in April 2014 after it finishes existing contracts, said Robyn Benson, vice-president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada for the Prairie region and mIKE DEAL / archives Cereal Research Centre to close. The centre, one of a network of 19 national research centres of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, focuses on wheat and oats breeding, improving cereal quality and the resistance to diseases and insects. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.