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Business needs to communicate sustainability better

Companies that have embraced sustainable practices also tend to be better performers

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Canadian businesses must learn how to better communicate their progress in sustainable development, according to Blair Feltmate, head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation in the University of Waterloo’s faculty of environment. Feltmate was in Winnipeg November 19 to deliver his keynote address, “Emerging sustainable development challenges and drivers,” at the Manitoba Environmental Industries
Federation of Canadian Municipalities ‘road map’ identifies needs
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Federation of Canadian Municipalities ‘road map’ identifies needs

Infrastructure, housing, safety, and environment highlighted

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Canadian municipal leaders want the next federal government to commit resources that directly benefit communities, and are tracking the commitments party candidates make on that front. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) rolled out its wish list last spring, titled A Roadmap for Strong Cities and Communities, which identified the key needs and issues facing
News, Opinion

Surface water management strategy a sustainable development imperative

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It sure would be great to have access to the agricultural nutrients carried away 
by flood waters, as fertilizer prices continue to climb

What a difference a year makes. Last year at this time all of southern Manitoba was in various stages of panic as forecasts revealed just how bad the 2011 flood might be. Ultimately our traditional flooding hot spot, the Red River Valley was mostly spared with a combination of manageable flows and decades of preparation.
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KAP, WRAP And APAS Deliver Election Wish List

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Bread-and-butter issues for Prairie farmers top provincial farm associations’ election priorities as the federal campaign nears the home stretch. Keystone Agricultural Producers, Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan and Wild Rose Agricultural Producers last week listed four main issues they want the newly elected government to focus on after the May 2 election. The priorities emerged
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AMM Lends Support For Ecological Goods And Services Program

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Manitoba municipalities have put their support solidly behind an ecological goods and services program that would pay farmers to protect natural lands. At their November convention leaders backed a resolution in support of seeing what’s known as the ecological goods and services program, rolled out by KAP back in 1999, implemented province-wide. The resolution came
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The “Transition Town”

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“Transition builds a positive vision. It’s about people coming together as a community and supporting each other in the changes that we have to make, and not feeling like we’re losing, but that our life is actually being enriched.” – MICHELLE COLUSSI, CANADIAN CENTER FOR COMMUNI TY RENEWAL AND TRANSITION (CCCR) For further information To
Opinion

Green Box Subsidies Can Also Distort Trade

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Efforts to overhaul agricultural support in rich countries are increasingly under challenge for failing to remove the unfair distortions in global trade that they purport to eliminate, a new study says. The study by agriculture and trade economists, published by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), questions the thrust of farm negotiations
Opinion

Finding Common Ground

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Farm organizations and rural advocacy groups haven’t exactly been tripping over themselves to sign on to the Manitoba Food Charter. In fact, the Manitoba Women’s Institute – once a fearless advocate for similar values – voted almost unanimously a couple of years back against a resolution to support it. Likewise, mainstream farmers have been noticeably

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