A plan to curb a venerable monopoly
Agriculture
Facts and Fiction in the Wheat Board Debate
Those who support the single desk argue in circles. Is the Wheat Board or corporation? Who owns it?
For a Grain Boom, End the Monopoly
Only a few months ago, the Canadian Wheat Board was rarely discussed outside Western Canada. Now, it looks set to become one of the top national political issues of 2007. Debate about the wheat board's usefulness and practices has been percolating for years, but,...
Dairy Farmers Make Suckers of Consumers
The dairy consumption is down but the farmers are still making money. How is this happening?
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Military Conquest is Meaningless Without True Social Renewal
The hasty, defeatist and craven withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan in August has compelled the so-called “civilized” Western nations and their leaders to confront the failures and errors of the past 20 years, which resemble those of earlier conflicts....
What Life Looks Like Outside COVID-19 Hysteria
Travel and work over the past two years have brought me to many different jurisdictions. What continues to strike me is the way the responses to COVID-19 have been varied, arbitrary and often draconian. I look back at Canada and see raging debates over mask mandates,...
Bottom-Up Change At The Australian Wheat Board
Changes to the Canadian Wheat Board Act contained in Bill C-72 died on the order paper when an election was called.