The BSE crisis is tough, but could prompt better trade relations.
Robert Sopuck
Welcome to the New Rural Pioneers
Rural communities should develop marketing strategies to attract high-tech information professionals and businesses.
The Lone Eagles
Executive Summary The development of instantaneous, rapid and reliable communications systems is transforming the rural areas of North America. The exponential expansion of the necessary infrastructure to the most remote regions, often expressed as the “death of...
Food Security and Property Rights
Private farms are the key to global food security.
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Timeless Wisdom – The Politics of Successful Structural Reform
It’s a well-known pattern in public policy – profligate politicians damaging their economies with out-of-control spending, massive borrowing and higher taxes – inevitably leading to fiscal crisis, sharp declines in growth and ultimately rapidly falling currency value...
Canada’s National Hysteria in the 21st Century
Mass hysteria is the spontaneous manifestation of a particular behaviour by many people. There are numerous historical examples: Middle Age nuns at a convent in France spontaneously began to meow like cats; at another convent, nuns began biting one another. In...
Federal Fisheries Program Creating Problems for the Prairies
The new Fisheries and Oceans Canada (FOC) fish habitat enforcement program has serious deficiencies that threaten the growth and development of the prairie economy, concludes a policy analysis released today.
The Federalization of Prairie Freshwaters
The federal and provincial governments share jurisdiction for the management of some natural resources and the environment.
Rural Communities Benefit from Free Trade
Trade is back in the news with the recent World Trade Organization (WTO) talks and, of course, our very own softwood lumber dispute with the United States.
Red Tape and Rural Life
You probably think that all of us country folk are as free as the proverbial birds, doing whatever we like, since there is no one out here to worry about it. Well, the reality is much different.
The Real Animal Rights Agenda
Now the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) want our kids to stop drinking milk. Presumably, we are cruelly exploiting dairy cows who deserve a life of frolicking in meadows.
Dipping Toes into Water Policy
Mark Twain said, “Whiskey’s for drinkin’ and water’s for fightin’ over.”
Manitoba Beef Sector Sizzles
Amid all of the bad news in the grain industry and the conflicts over expansion in the hog industry, one segment of farming, the beef business, is doing quite nicely, thank you very much.
Farm Chemicals can Benefit our Environment
This means that our soil resources will be tightly tied to the earth and our lands protected from spring floods and winds. In addition, the wholesale adoption of winter wheat may reduce flooding overall as the spring runoff is captured very early in spring by crops that have spent the winter under the snow. Throw in newer, better, and less toxic herbicides and the future looks bright.
Don’t Throw out Biotech Baby with Environmental Bathwater
We’ve been hearing a lot of guff about “Franken-foods”, the anti-science crowd’s moniker for Genetically Modified Organisms. They claim that foodstuffs improved in the laboratory will turn us all into creatures from the Black Lagoon.