The invention has proven it can successfully reduce rodent populations, but a cash injection is needed to scale it up
An Arizona-based company has developed a rat-control product that could spell the end of the adage, if you have one rat, there are probably more. “I call it rat-o-pause,” SenesTech CEO Loretta Mayer told a crowd at the annual Agri Innovation Forum in Winnipeg last month, explaining the compound her company has developed essentially causes
A marketing strategist warns local leaders of what comes from rejecting change and acting ‘dumb’ so less is expected of them
Revised, Dec. 13, 2013 — All small-town coffee shops should have a designated ‘be happy’ section, says Chris Fields. Coffee shop critics with all their “nattering and chittering” are part of what’s killing rural communities, says Fields, a senior marketing strategist with the Alberta-based Twist Marketing Firm. “Coffee shops are horrible places for that. They’re
Gerry Ritz says rail performance, which is being monitored, is adequate given the big crop to move
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says he has yet to see conclusive proof that the railways aren’t doing an adequate job moving this year’s bumper crop to market. “I hear a lot of anecdotal evidence and I follow it up and say, ‘give me the car numbers… give me the dates,’ and nobody can, nobody has,”
Curricula used to teach classes such as family studies and foods and nutrition in Manitoba schools has remained unchanged since the late 1980s
Manitoba home economists are applauding a provincial plan to give the home economics curriculum a long-overdue update. The current one is 25 years old, said Alison Delf-Timmerman, a board member of the Manitoba Association of Home Economists, which has been asking the province to freshen up the curriculum. “It definitely needs updating,” she said.“We’re very
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