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A new study suggests that companies should commit to pricing healthier foods the same or lower than less healthy foods.
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Comment: Healthy food needs corporate support

Big food companies can do more to create healthier food environments

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Canada’s food environment makes it hard to eat healthy. Delicious, attractive but unhealthy foods are promoted, priced and placed for easy access and consumption. Meanwhile, companies and their shareholders have legally mandated profit-driven interests — interests that may not align with a desire to support public health and healthy eating among Canadians. We studied the
Manitoba Food History Project researchers invited people aboard their converted food truck to cook and talk about food in their family.
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Adobo, manomin and the illegal perogy lady

Local food history book tells the stories of many cultures that call Manitoba home

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Many small-town Manitobans have had a “perogy lady” in their lives. For me, it was a perogy couple. They were older, of Ukrainian heritage, and had a deal with my dad. He would trade half a deer’s worth of venison for butchering services. Sometimes the meat would come back with perogies, and those were the
An algae bloom photographed in 2017.
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Opinion: Agriculture is part of the solution for Lake Winnipeg

Laying blame on farmers fails to capture nuance of the problem

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It is not your great-granddaddy’s farm anymore. While some may have nostalgia for the old farm with a little red barn that housed a few chickens, a couple of pigs and a dairy cow, it is better for both the environment and the economy that agriculture has modernized. Today’s farmer has taken, and is taking,
A large pothole down the centre of a lane on PTH 244 north of Manitou, Man.
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Editorial: The bill’s coming for bad roads

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It’s been a good spring for bad road stories. To be fair, it’s prime time for it — the season of frost boils, weight restrictions and ruts from vehicles and machinery on gravel roads that are still firming up. Even by the standards of spring, though, it feels like it’s been hard to drive any
We need a new research model to address the problem of accurately comparing protein sources whether they be of natural, or manufactured processes.
Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Our protein problem

Sources should be evaluated head-to-head on a lifecycle basis and include contribution to human nutrition

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Glacier FarmMedia – The world has a protein problem. To be more precise, it has a protein shortage problem. Once digestibility and amino acid balance are considered, there is actually less protein than what’s needed to satisfy human requirements. This shortage can only get worse in coming years with rising populations, a desire by a
Editorial: Grain business consolidation and concentration
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Editorial: Grain business consolidation and concentration

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Press releases are often notable because of what they don’t say. Then again, sometimes they unintentionally speak volumes. For example, consider the official statements coming from the Glencore team related to their role in the continuing consolidation and concentration of the grain handling business in Canada.  In 2012, when Glencore announced it was acquiring Viterra,
The average increase in value of cultivated Canadian farmland was 11.5 per cent in 2023, and there is clear evidence that the cost of owning land in some areas now outstrips its income generation ability.
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Opinion: Diversity may buffer risk of farmland buys

Should farmers consider ecological diversity as a risk management tool?

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Glacier FarmMedia – It’s the time of year that farmland often changes hands. This spring, there is an increase of sales in certain sectors, driven by land stress and owners’ inability to weather another financial or literal storm. Many of these properties are monocultures or singularly focused production units and highly dependent on one source
A farmer might not think this is an important issue, but if processors, retailers and consumers do, that farmer will have to meet the standard, regardless of their own feelings.
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Editor’s Take: Accounting for change

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A life of spreadsheets might not be for everyone, but accountancy is important work. It’s how we measure success, track expenses, and how we hold people and organizations accountable. A new report from one of Canada’s major accounting firms, Deloitte Canada, proposes a different application for accounting principles, one that farmers may not be accustomed
Canada’s fire season is expected to begin earlier and last longer this year.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Canadians left high and dry on water management issues

Federal budget 2024 misses the mark on water-related investments

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Canadians are worried as they look ahead to summer. Forest fires in British Columbia are expected to begin earlier and last longer this year and the Prairies are still expecting continued drought. Other Canadians are also bracing for or are already experiencing extreme flood conditions. In the lead-up to the federal government’s 2024 budget, there
Deciding where to remove animals requires careful planning based on where CWD has been found.
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Managing CWD means some deer have got to die

Animal removal, including hunting, will be key to nipping chronic wasting disease at the bud

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British Columbia, like Manitoba, is in the early days of its fight against chronic wasting disease. Things are moving quickly, and they must. On March 13, the British Columbia government announced it would harvest deer in the Kootenays. The word came six weeks after CWD, a fatal prion disease in deer, elk, moose and caribou,

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