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While grocers have long supported food banks and various charitable causes, these endeavours often lack conspicuous promotion. Conversely, fair trade stands out as a visible, transparent, trusted and trustworthy option…
Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Consumers still shelling out for fair trade

Fair-trade products are typically less popular when food prices rise but this time, it’s different

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October marks Fair Trade Month even as the cost of food remains high, so the question arises: why celebrate fair trade when many of its products come with a price premium? Given our collective concerns on sustainability and social justice for the globe’s farmers, however, it is imperative that we talk about it. While fair-trade
Now is the time to start thinking about what the next five-year partnership will look like when it begins in 2028.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: ‘New deal’ does not mean good deal for Canadian agriculture

Research funding has changed a lot in the last 20 years, and not necessarily for the better

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I started my career in Manitoba’s agriculture industry with the provincial government in February 2001. There I was introduced to the five-year funding structure used by Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial governments to support the Canadian agriculture industry. Early in my career, it was called the Agricultural Policy Framework. This was followed by Growing Forward,
Comment: We must respect Mexico’s food sovereignty
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: We must respect Mexico’s food sovereignty

Mexico has a right to determine its corn policy, even if the U.S. and Canada don’t like it

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Sept. 29 was Mexico’s national day celebrating the central place corn has in Mexican society and history. This year, there is a new threat to its future. Corn as we know it today was developed from an ancient plant called teocinte by Indigenous peoples over thousands of years, making Mexico the crop’s biological and cultural
Comment: How the food subsidy system is failing northern Canada
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: How the food subsidy system is failing northern Canada

Grocery retailers are benefiting from food subsidies and that’s a problem

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Soaring food prices, growing profit margins and record-high profits in the food industry have severely impacted the lives of many Canadians. According to Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s largest grocery chains recently agreed to work with the federal government to stabilize prices. But for Canadians living in remote northern communities, food affordability
Editorial: Crown lands on uncertain ground
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editorial: Crown lands on uncertain ground

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Agriculture didn’t get a lot of airtime during the recent election, except at events hosted by the Association of Manitoba Municipalities or the Manitoba Farm Writers and Broadcasters Association. However, one burning issue got a surprising lack of play, given its heat over the course of the outgoing government’s last term. There were very few
It has been a tough time for beekeepers, the broader beekeeping community and the growers of crops relying on honeybees for pollination.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Australia has officially given up on eradicating varroa mite. Now what?

Australia has, until recently, held the line against the endemic headache faced by North American beekeepers

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The Australian government body in charge of pest control has announced the country will abandon efforts to eradicate the varroa mite. This parasitic mite lives in honeybee colonies, feeding on pupae and adult bees. The mites spread viruses, impair the bees’ ability to fly or communicate and makes them more susceptible to pesticides, eventually causing
Commodity markets, however, wait for no one and, like American politics, grain futures have been slipping and slouching since early summer.
Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: The pileups start to pile up

U.S grain marketing is looking as messy as its politics

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It’s looking like today’s political and grain market pileups will be bigger and messier than first thought. Here’s how New York Republican Representative Mike Lawler described his colleagues’ never-to-pass federal budget demands to CNN Sept. 19: “This is not conservative republicanism. This is stupidity.” There’s little wonder that Congress has spent most of 2023 shooting
File photo of a great black-backed gull standing on a fortress wall at the port city of Saint-Malo in northern France. (Sjo/iStock/Getty Images)
Op/Ed, Opinion

France stacks the deck against bird flu but risks issues

France has launched its bird vaccination scheme amid fears of repeat H5N1 outbreaks

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Of all the emerging and potentially pandemic viruses, the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus H5N1 is one of the fiercest. First found in Hong Kong in 1997, it has a 60 per cent mortality rate when transmitted to humans. As of August, the World Health Organization has counted 878 human cases and 458 deaths
(PamWalker68/iStock/Getty Images)
Comment, Op/Ed

COVID-19 isn’t over for white-tailed deer

The virus mutates rapidly in white-tailed deer, but here’s why we don’t need to worry — for now

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At some point during the pandemic, Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spread from humans to white-tailed deer in North America. In 2021, scientists revealed that 40 per cent of white-tailed deer sampled in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois and New York state in the U.S. had antibodies for the virus. Surveillance of these deer continues, and
‘Canada’s self-image, accurate or not, is that it’s a nice country, full of nice folks. Shake that identity enough and, at some point, the results might not be pretty if you need to hire a foreign worker.’
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: The downside of TFW over-reliance

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Typically, when one hears ‘Canada’ and ‘slavery’ in the same sentence, it’s because the country is fighting it internationally. For example, the country intends to implement the Modern Slavery Act in January, aimed at fighting forced labour and child labour in global supply chains. That’s why the recent words of a UN special rapporteur were

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