February 6, 2019

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did his town hall session in Regina on January 10, you could expect there would be a few nutbar questions, and, indeed, there were. One ...

January 30, 2019

With the new year off and running farmers can begin in earnest to plan what they will plant this spring. Actually in today’s agriculture much of the planning in terms of ...

January 23, 2019

The biggest problem with protests isn’t necessarily the protesters but how we react to them and their message. This has clearly been the frustration for pipeline ...

January 17, 2019

When farmers look back on 2018 there is little doubt one memory will linger longest, at least among prairie producers, and that will be the seemingly never-ending fall. ...

January 3, 2019

Last month, about 200 governments around the world agreed to set newer targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in ...

December 5, 2018

Recently I visited with Bruce Frederickson of Theodore to talk about a project of his to recreate the grand home of Richard Seeman, one of the earliest settlers in the ...

November 28, 2018

In 1984, the Irish Republican Army tried to kill British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with a bomb. They did not succeed, but they did send a message. “You have to be ...

November 21, 2018

Twenty-five years ago, a cop beat on me. Why? I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and it’s all the Blue Jays’ fault, and the team’s home, SkyDome. That year, 1993...

November 14, 2018

Few things are more concerning in business than the possible impact of something new and unknown. And that is exactly what the agriculture sector is facing as the ...

November 7, 2018

So the Cannabis Act came into force on October 18. Depending upon where you live in Canada the reaction has been quite different. In British Columbia the potential for ...

October 24, 2018

The other day I visited a long-time friend of mine, and together we lamented the state of political discourse today. Steve and I have known each other since somewhere ...