University of Guelph to lead national network focused on agri-food innovation

Jean-Marc Crevier, a municipal councillor in Saguenay, Que., can feel his constituents’ anxiety.Mr. Crevier’s district encompasses Rio Tinto’s sprawling, century-old Arvida aluminum smelter. It is one of four such facilities – in addition to one refinery – in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region, which produces a third of all Canadian aluminum thanks to abundant, cheap hydroelectric power.