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'... we are all actively pursuing special offers, forsaking national brands, and gravitating towards more affordable stores.' – Sylvain Charlebois.
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Comment: Interest rates affect food choices

Food and shelter are bare necessities and when the cost of one goes up too quickly, consumers cut back on the other

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The Bank of Canada has once again increased its benchmark interest rate. Concurrently, a growing number of financial experts express apprehensions about the potential impact of yet another rate hike on consumers. Their concerns are not unfounded. Let us examine the evidence. Undoubtedly, food and housing constitute the fundamental necessities of life. Pertinent data reveals
Ford’s F-150 Lightning Lariat. (Ford.com)
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: The rural problem with EVs

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Electric vehicles have a chicken-and-egg problem in rural Canada. Until there are enough charging sites that drivers feel no constraints on travel, electric vehicle purchase will be a hard sell. And until there are enough electric vehicles to create demand for those charging stations, there isn’t an urgent push to install them. When Western Canada’s
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Editor’s Take: Reconciliation roadmap

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I recently attended the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists annual conference. This year it was at Olds College in rural Alberta. As one might expect, agriculture in all its forms was front and centre. From autonomous sprayers to crop-scouting drones and everything in between, the future of agriculture on the Prairies was on full display.
Comment: ‘Appeasing hardliners’ all but promises Farm Bill failure
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: ‘Appeasing hardliners’ all but promises Farm Bill failure

The next U.S. Farm Bill, due by the end of this year, will profoundly impact the ag sector of Canada’s biggest trade partner for the next five years

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Members of the U.S. Congress are facing down two enormous tasks, with little time to complete them. As of Sept. 30 of this year, the 2018 Farm Bill will expire. Simultaneously, the American government needs a new budget in place to open its doors Oct. 1. It will take a mighty effort for either to
Current regulations and by-the-kilometer pay discourage and penalize drivers from resting when they feel tired or stopping when road conditions are bad.
Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: Semi safety needs a wider scope

A safer trucking industry is more than just driver training

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Details are still emerging about the recent collision between a bus carrying seniors and a semi in southern Manitoba. It is now clear that the truck had right of way. However, police have not yet determined cause or potential culpability. What we know for certain is that this is one of the worst road accidents
Learning more about plants’ circadian clocks could significantly increase yield and control the timing of plant flowering to adapt to climate change.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Hacking the biological clock can push production

Understanding plant body clocks could help transform how crops are grown

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Have you ever had a bad case of jet lag, when you get off a long flight and your body is telling you it’s time to go to sleep, but the outside world is telling you it’s time for breakfast? That’s the biological effect of your inner body clock, also known as your circadian clock.
'The success of Canada’s economy doesn’t truly rely on a few favoured firms that are able to capture regulators and curry favour with politicians.' – Gord Gilmour.
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editorial: Checks and balances needed

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There’s a deepening need in Canada to increase oversight into competition in our economy, as evidenced by the latest food-related scandal. Canada Bread, an arm of the Mexican multinational Groupo Bimbo, just agreed to pay a $50-million settlement for its part in a bread price-fixing scheme. It was a conspiracy that ran for 14 to
Genes are not Lego blocks. An individual gene can control multiple aspects of an organism’s development and its response to different environmental conditions. Gene editing is therefore likely to change more than just one trait.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Science in the back seat on gene-editing decision

Gene-edited seed now stands on largely the same footing as traditionally bred plants in Canada, and there are problems with that

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Even though they have no history of safe use in Canada or elsewhere, Agriculture Minister (Marie-Claude) Bibeau announced on May 3 that Canada will exempt gene-edited plants from the regulations faced by genetically modified crops and mandatory public notification unless they contain foreign DNA or if they are herbicide tolerant. For all other changes in
Most importantly is not the issue of whether bread should be classed as ultra-processed, it’s the levels of salt that could be more of a problem.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: In defence of bread

Store-bought bread might be considered ultra-processed, but that doesn’t mean it’s all bad

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Today’s sliced bread often contains so many more ingredients than what our ancestors ate that it is now considered an ultra-processed food. This doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad for us. There are many definitions of what makes a food ‘ultra-processed.’ The most common is the Nova classification, developed by researchers at the University of Sao

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