February 27, 2019

Last week I drove the kids to school almost every day, as opposed to Spencer walking three blocks to school, or Katrina walking half that distance to the bus stop. Are ...

February 20, 2019

In recent weeks, being just a little bit of a latecomer to the party, I have discovered eBay. I made three purchases in one evening, for a total of four over the last 12 ...

February 19, 2019

Trying to fully understand the intricacies of the economics of world trade is not surprisingly like figuring out how to unravel the Gordian Knot. So much of trade is ...

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. ...

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 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 ...

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 ...