Take a litre carton of milk out of your fridge. Pour it down the drain. And then repeat – at least 6.8 billion times. That’s the volume of raw milk that Canadian dairy farmers dumped between ...

Photo by Ottawa Fire Services Capital drivers are crying over spilled milk Saturday as a tractor-trailer jacked and spilled a full load of milk containers on Highway 416 near Roger Stephens Drive.

And in another blow, the flow of milk to Nova Scotia — where roughly 25 per cent of local milk is shipped — practically stopped because the market in that province has also seized up.