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Canada can produce its own sugar. But it doesn’t.
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Editor’s Note: Sugar shortage makes for sticky business

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How can a strike involving 138 workers at a single refining operation in Vancouver affect the availability of sugar for 11 million Canadians in the four western provinces — and what does this situation tell us about our national food system as a whole? It certainly suggests that our sweet tooth has become too dependent
Some ag sectors will probably be less than kind toward a new film that looks at modern agricultural practices.
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Editor’s Take: Finding ‘Common Ground’

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This year’s Manitoba Forage and Grasslands Association Regenerative Ag Conference had something different on the schedule — a movie night. The association was granted Manitoba’s first screening of the documentary “Common Ground,” a follow up to “Kiss the Ground,” which debuted on Netflix in 2020. Like that one, “Common Ground” marketed itself as a hopeful
It’s amazing to think that the work of two plant breeders at publicly funded universities transformed a machine lubricant into an edible oil.
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Editor’s Take: Setting research priorities a complex puzzle

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[UPDATED: Nov. 24, 2023] It’s often observed that from tiny acorns, mighty oaks grow. Nowhere in the western Canadian agriculture scene is this truer than in the canola sector. When one pauses to reflect, one can only marvel at what has happened. A relatively obscure crop, grown largely as a machine lubricant, was transformed into one of
‘As urban populations cry for housing, there’s a long list of rural communities that have watched their populations shrink for decades.’ – Alexis Stockford.
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Editorial: The rural housing solution

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Canada’s housing crisis is getting a lot of attention. In September, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre introduced a private members bill that would tie the infrastructure funding the federal government provides to municipalities to a stated threshold of extra homes built in that municipality per year. On Nov. 7, federal Public Services and Procurement Minister Jean-Yves
How data is compiled, analyzed and managed serves to magnify its impacts, be they good or bad.
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Editor’s Take: The dark side of data sharing

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Data is a big part of our lives. It is built into the cell phone plan we pay for every month, our credit score and every part of every supply chain that brings us the things we use and consume. It can be used to spot patterns, optimize operations, save money and create better end
Much of our past investment in water management infrastructure has been dedicated to either keeping water at bay or getting rid of it as quickly as possible.
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editorial: Division or unity on water?

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Wab Kinew wouldn’t be the first Manitoba premier who came into office vowing to represent all Manitobans or to preach the politics of unity. However, he may be looking at a steeper slope. He comes into office as post-pandemic discord has created deep societal polarization and faces a quagmire of intersecting crises, including the escalating
A federal grain dryer exemption bill did not pass in 2021, but the concept was revived in Bill C-234.
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Editorial: Waiting game on Bill C-234

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Mother Nature has thrown the federal government a bone on Bill C-234. Manitoba’s weekly crop reports show harvest 2023 ran ahead of the five-year average pretty much from the get-go. There were still some soybeans, corn and sunflowers to come off as of Oct. 17, as well as regional patches of canola. But, for the
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
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Editor’s Take: Removing barriers

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My Glacier FarmMedia colleagues and I have been contemplating how to mark Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30. One idea was a special edition of our electronic newsletter highlighting some of the work we’ve done over the past year to cover Indigenous issues in the agriculture sector. If you subscribe to
‘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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