Ending the Wheat Board’s marketing monopoly and competition would not mean its demise. To believe that is to ignore history.
Rolf Penner
Deal or No Deal? WTO Deadline Nears
Where’s Howie Mandel when we really need him? Canada should abandon its misguided position and take the WTO deal before it’s too late.
A Phony Study Deludes the Nation
The newly named Canadian Environmental Defence Fund bangs the bushes for money with another scary “study.”
Alligator Eats A Crow
Ag Policy Fellow Rolf Penners eats a Crow
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Our Health Ministers Need to Take a Lesson from Hockey Coaches
Those of you who are tired of my rants about the demise of our once great health system will be pleased to know that this is my last editorial. I am retiring from the BCMJ Editorial Board; currently, I am the longest-serving member (more than 20 years). I have been a...
Zinchuk: Oilpatch Only Spending Half What It Spent in 2014
Back in the lofty, pre-Justin Trudeau government days of 2014, back when oil was booming, pipelines were planned to east and west coasts, and Alberta and Saskatchewan were swimming in money, around $81 billion was spent in capital expenditures (CAPEX) in the Canadian...
Pesticides on Prairies a Plus
Junk scientists and their media allies can rail all they like about the alleged dangers of chemicals that protect crops, but without them the farm belt would collapse.
Board-Boosting Blues
A new study suggests the Canadian Wheat Board unnecessarily suppresses the barley market.
The Divine Right of Stagnation
Opponents of genetically modified grains claim that their property rights are transgressed when a neighbour’s crop migrates onto their land. Manitoba farmer and writer Rolf Penner examines their case.
Pesticides and Pumpkinheads
Has objectivity been replaced by anti-pesticide bias?