RecipeSwap New rules for labelling help those with allergies Reading the label on food products just got easier for those living with allergies or celiac disease — and squinting at the fine print. Last week Health Canada unveiled new rules for what must be declared on food labels so you can tell at a glance
Recipe Swap, Aug. 9
Recipe Swap: The benefits of barley
How often do you add pot or pearled barley to your soups or stews, or bake with barley flour? Canadians don’t eat much barley — we consume it as beer, mostly — but that’s going to change as our perceptions of the food value of this crop start to shift, thanks to a new health
Proponent of Brandon med school pans new report
Hopes for a medical school for Brandon were quashed last week with the release of a long-awaited study recommending undergraduate studies remain in Winnipeg with more medical residencies created in Brandon and other rural hospitals. The Brandon Medical Education Study in 2011 began studying options for training more doctors for rural and northern practice. The
Retirement looms for many rural self-employed
Statistics Canada analysis shows many lawyers, accountants and other key service providers will be at retirement age in next decade in rural Canada
The wave of retirements expected to roll across rural Canada in the next decade won’t just affect the farmers in your community. Rural and small-town Canada could have fewer lawyers, accountants, doctors and funeral directors too, according to a recent analysis of the ages of those self-employed outside bigger centres. About one in every fourHealth Canada gives barley permission to boast about its health benefits
Forget the apple — a few grams of barley will keep the doctor away. Health Canada has given its stamp of approval to the grain after years of research established that beta-glucan, a type of fibre found in barley, can reduce blood cholesterol, which is a risk factor for heart disease. “A health claim really
Recipe Swap: Chill, separate, clean and cook
Many of us have a memory of a must-have food at family picnics. Ours was a particular sandwich made with Klik, lettuce and tomatoes, which we called “by the highway” sandwiches because they were usually eaten seated somewhere next to the open trunk of Dad’s Super ’88. They were always soggy by the time we
Deaths by drowning rise in July
The tragic death of a little girl from the Poplar Point Hutterite colony last week is a reminder of how quickly innocent water play can turn deadly. An initial RCMP investigation said Becky Waldner, 11, had been with a group of children who were swimming and playing on an inner tube near the shore of
Prairie agriculture about to turn 200 years old
The Red River settlement was the beginning of one of the most important movements in Canadian history and the establishment of the farming system of the Prairie provinces
They were poor, landless farmers going to an unimaginably remote land — and forever changing it. The Selkirk settlers’ arrival at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers 200 years ago this fall led to the opening of the Canadian West and the beginning of Prairie agriculture. Later this summer, Manitobans will celebrate RedFarm accident results in $50,000 fine
A Carberry-area potato farm has been fined nearly $50,000 following an investigation into a serious farm accident on Sept. 18, 2010. The 15-year-old girl, a seasonal worker at ShellMark Farms Ltd., had attempted to straddle a moving conveyor belt by placing her foot on the north-side lip of the conveyor when she lost her balance.
Recipe Swap, July 19: Make the rhubarb last!
Some people have heirloom peonies or other perennials from the old farm or their parents’ gardens; I have rhubarb growing from a crown taken from my mom’s original patch. I love making a pie with a few stalks from it and my sister and I get a bit silly about the taste of it. We
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