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It pays to live in Pipestone

By Lorraine Stevenson November 15, 2012

It pays to live in Pipestone — literally. Any renter or homeowner who has lived in the rural municipality for a year or more will pocket $500 this fall, thanks to a grant program created by the RM. It’s the second year in a row the local municipal government has decided to share its oil

News

Manitoba government defends oilpatch oversight

By Allan Dawson November 15, 2012

Companies caught dumping oilfield waste in ditches are responsible for cleaning it up, a Manitoba government official said in an email to the Manitoba Co-operator last week. The official was responding to Cromer farmer Carlyle Jorgensen’s complaint, reported in the Nov. 1 Co-operator, that the province’s Petroleum Branch isn’t doing enough to discourage improper waste

Country Crossroads, News, Oilseeds

Nutrition and your vision

By Julie Garden-Robinson November 15, 2012

Vision acuity is measured on a 20/X basis, where the first number is the standard distance of 20 feet between the eye being tested and the eye chart. A person with 20/40 vision can see clearly at 20 feet what a person with normal vision would see at 40 feet. Eyeglasses and contact lenses can

News

Somaliland hopes oil will replace goat dependence

By Ed Stoddard November 15, 2012

Reuters / Wanted: investors for small African nation with good oil and mineral potential — no seat at the United Nations but history of independence in rough neighbourhood. The breakaway nation of Somaliland is a tough sell but the recent announcement that serious hydrocarbon exploration is about to kick off there shows that oil talks,

News

Farmer complains about oil spills

By Allan Dawson November 9, 2012

The provincial government is turning a blind eye to southwestern Manitoba oil-drilling companies dumping saltwater and oil in municipal ditches, a Cromer-area farmer says. Carlyle Jorgensen, who farms near Cromer, told the Keystone Agricultural Producers meeting here last week the government is fearful of discouraging oil well development in the province. “From December (2011) until

Crops, News, Oilseeds

Heat-damaged canola crop creates supply shortages

By Rod Nickel November 9, 2012

Reuters / Supply worries about Canada’s disappointingly small canola harvest this year are compounded by the oilseed’s reduced oil content, crimping profits for crushers and leaving food companies to scramble for other vegetable oils. Expectations were high early in the crop year that a record-large canola crop in Canada would compensate for some of the

Beef cattle, Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: Meat recall is a wake-up call

By Lorraine Stevenson November 9, 2012

Just days after the Food and Agriculture Organization’s report how one-third of all food produced for human consumption is wasted every year, the XL Foods scandal began. Now we’re hearing that at least two million pounds of beef, the equivalent of about 6,000 to 7,000 cattle, is heading to Alberta landfills. It’s the largest E.

News

Nigeria president says floods won’t cause hunger

November 9, 2012

Reuters / Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan sought to allay fears Oct. 26 that the nation’s worst floods in at least five decades would trigger a food crisis because of damage to crops. Jonathan, who this month toured some parts of Africa’s most populous nation that have been submerged by floods he has described as a

Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: How we cook(ed) in Canada

By Lorraine Stevenson October 26, 2012

Unless we keep journals or blog, few of us ever write our own story — our mothers and grandmothers certainly didn’t have much time to do so. So written records of their life’s experiences can be hard to find. But often their cookbooks have tales to tell. In the late 1990s, Ontario librarian and archivist

Country Crossroads, News

Cooking from…“speed scratch?”

By Julie Garden-Robinson October 26, 2012

Some days you can’t get the food on the table fast enough. On those days, consider “speed scratch” cooking methods when time is short and your family members are sitting at the table with their knives and forks in hand. Speed scratch is a term used when you combine ready-to-use fresh foods (such as salad

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It pays to live in Pipestone

Manitoba government defends oilpatch oversight

Nutrition and your vision

Somaliland hopes oil will replace goat dependence

Farmer complains about oil spills

Heat-damaged canola crop creates supply shortages

Recipe Swap: Meat recall is a wake-up call

Nigeria president says floods won’t cause hunger

Recipe Swap: How we cook(ed) in Canada

Cooking from…“speed scratch?”

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