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Editor’s Take: Writing a new story for Canada’s grain sector

By Gord Gilmour May 14, 2020

Ask any writer and they’ll tell you the hardest thing is writing a story without an antagonist. Heroes are a dime a dozen, but it’s the villains who are usually more interesting characters, providing the conflict that drives the plot along and captures the interest of the reader. As our Allan Dawson reports in our

Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Editorial: Agriculture slips through the safety net

By Gord Gilmour May 7, 2020

Canadian agriculture is very proud of its prominence in the national economy, and rightly so. As StatsCan noted in a 2019 report, agriculture and food contributed $49 billion to the nation’s GDP in 2015, or 2.6 per cent of total GDP. That’s been a target of growth too, as various projection and government plans have

Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: Stress cracks but no fractures

By Gord Gilmour April 30, 2020

Now is when the systemic shortfalls are beginning to show. It’s only when a complex system is put under stress that underlying and underappreciated issues start to appear. Think of the 2008 global financial crisis as an example. Prior to it being revealed as the precarious house of cards that it was, housing in the

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editorial: Farmers should tread carefully when seeking more aid

By Laura Rance-Unger April 23, 2020

There is one stabilizing force for agriculture amidst all the uncertainties as the effects of pandemic management ripple through the food chain like an electrical shock to everything it touches. The recently released Farm Credit Canada report on land values, based on 2019 transactions, shows the value of farmland in Canada continues to rise, albeit

Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: COVID-19 is changing the conversation around food

By Laura Rance-Unger April 16, 2020

On one hand, the federal government stated the obvious when it identified the food system as one of the 10 critical infrastructures supporting Canadians during the pandemic crisis. After all, who can survive without food? Nevertheless, the guidance document issued by Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair recently sent an important signal, one

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Other

Editor’s Take: Winds of change

By Gord Gilmour April 9, 2020

The question that landed with a gentle thud on the virtual meeting table during a conference call of Glacier FarmMedia editors this week was a good one: “Isn’t the real question not ‘What’s going to change?’ but rather ‘What should change?’” The topic at hand had been how our publications group will cover the myriad

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Other

Editor’s Take: Who’d have thought?

By Gord Gilmour April 2, 2020

It’s been another week of surprises. Who’d have thought we’d see gasoline prices below 60 cents a litre again? Who’d have thought we’d see the federal government backstopping 75 per cent of the wage bill for the entire country? Who’d have guessed the concept of a universal basic income would suddenly be on the minds

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Other

Editorial: Coronavirus situation offers strange times

By Gord Gilmour March 26, 2020

I’m sure most of us are feeling a sense of other-worldliness these days. It’s like we’re suddenly at war, but against an unseen enemy. The prime minister holds daily briefings outside his residence, while observing his own self-quarantine. The U.S. border has slammed shut for weeks and possibly months to anything but essential traffic. Domestic

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Other

Editor’s Take: We’re all in this together

By Gord Gilmour March 16, 2020

As the March 19 issue went to press, Manitoba has confirmed its first three cases of COVID-19 infections (now expanded to seven). Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had entered a 14-day isolation period after his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, tested positive for the virus after returning from a speaking engagement in the U.K. Parliamentarians had suspended

The Chinese government continues to insist the issue of halting canola imports from Canada is a phytosanitary one.

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: One year later, still no traction on canola issue

By Gord Gilmour March 12, 2020

At times Canada’s trade situation brings to mind the one-hit-wonder of the 1970s, Stealers Wheel, and their song “Stuck in the Middle With You.” Instead of clowns to the left and jokers to the right, however, it’s more like canola bans to the east and indifference to the south. As the international geopolitical ground shifts

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Editor’s Take: Writing a new story for Canada’s grain sector

Editorial: Agriculture slips through the safety net

Editor’s Take: Stress cracks but no fractures

Editorial: Farmers should tread carefully when seeking more aid

Editorial: COVID-19 is changing the conversation around food

Editor’s Take: Who’d have thought?

Editorial: Coronavirus situation offers strange times

Editor’s Take: We’re all in this together

Editor’s Take: One year later, still no traction on canola issue

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