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Editor’s Take: The technology tipping point

By Gord Gilmour January 20, 2022

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” That snippet of dialogue from Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises is a handy summation of the nature of change. Things go along for a while — often a good long while — in a certain mould, and

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Editor’s Take: The sick man of the Prairies

By Gord Gilmour January 13, 2022

In the mid-19th century, the Ottoman Empire was in trouble. It had controlled much of Southeastern Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa from the 14th century onward, but had now entered a period of decline and contraction. Emperor Nicholas I of the Russian Empire coined the phrase ‘the sick man of Europe’ to describe the

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Morriss: From bad to verse

By John Morriss January 6, 2022

Once again, a year’s passed and for better or worse We start a new one in doggerel — that’s badly rhymed verse We review the last year (which you could say was a hexed one) And give you some tips on what to do in the next one Now I’ve heard all the stories while

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Editor’s Take: Getting with the times

By Gord Gilmour December 23, 2021

I have many memories, when I was a kid, of trips to the elevator. We’d roll up the driveway and earthen ramp, into the building and over the pit. The man on duty that day — and back then it was always a man — would greet my father as we stepped off the scale.

If you combine an unpleasant job with low, and easily replaceable wages, you shouldn’t be shocked that you’re not exactly getting a lineup at the barn door.

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Editor’s Take: Poverty wages

By Gord Gilmour December 16, 2021

Much has been made of the agriculture labour shortage throughout the country. Committees have been struck, task forces created, reports authored and strategies presented. But it has been to no avail. The gap between open jobs and available workers just keeps growing. Lately, amidst the so-called ‘Great Resignation,’ this trend has appeared widely throughout the

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editorial: ‘Recipe shopping’ trend is trickling back through the value chain

By Laura Rance-Unger December 9, 2021

When it comes to deciding what’s for dinner in this house, we often refer to recipe books collected over the years via family hand-me-downs, fundraisers, or interest in our ethnic roots, health or ethics. It’s easy to spend an hour or more flipping through these collections, comparing notes and ingredients from one recipe or another.

An ammonia and nitrogen fertilizer plant in Russia. (Saoirse_2010/iStock/Getty Images)

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Editor’s Take: Why so high?

By Gord Gilmour December 2, 2021

When the goal is creating nitrogen fertilizer, the first thing you need to start with is a lot of natural gas. Everyone understands natural gas is one of the largest inputs — most estimates say about 70 per cent of the price you pay for nitrogen can be traced back to natural gas prices. But

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Editor’s Take: New towns and old farms

By Gord Gilmour November 25, 2021

With so many living in cities it seems there’s plenty of appetite for urban living. But it’s not for everyone. There’s also a solid subset that’s willing to swap a reasonable commute to jobs in the city for the pastoral countryside. As our Alexis Stockford documented, there’s been substantial demand for new housing here in

Do you know what it costs to make a batch of cookies lately? A popular meal-kit company took a look at exactly that. So, where does Canada stack up compared with countries around the world, and why?

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editorial: Cookie context

By Laura Rance-Unger November 18, 2021

The folks at HelloFresh, a meal-kit company, probably didn’t intend to wade into the latest dairy debate in Canada when they released their global Christmas Cookie Price Index Study this week. The company compared the cost of ingredients — flour, eggs, butter, sugar and baking powder to bake a standard batch of Christmas cookies in

Improving access to broadband connectivity is fundamental to the future of rural Canada.

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Editorial: Rural connectivity gap widening

By Laura Rance-Unger November 15, 2021

For some reason, the release of yet another report highlighting the deepening disconnect between urban and rural Canada over internet connectivity made me think of telephones. Growing up in rural Manitoba, where our telephone “party line” was shared by six large families, connectivity was often a topic of discussion. Sometimes the line was in use

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Editor’s Take: The technology tipping point

Editor’s Take: The sick man of the Prairies

Morriss: From bad to verse

Editor’s Take: Getting with the times

Editor’s Take: Poverty wages

Editorial: ‘Recipe shopping’ trend is trickling back through the value chain

Editor’s Take: Why so high?

Editor’s Take: New towns and old farms

Editorial: Cookie context

Editorial: Rural connectivity gap widening

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