Harper legacy kills another premium wheat market
(June 15, 2018) Japan has announced the (hopefully temporary) suspension of wheat purchases. The suspension followed quickly after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s announcement yesterday of the discovery of genetically modified glyphosate-resistant wheat in southern Alberta. Japan was always one of our Canadian Wheat Board’s customers willing to pay premium prices for quality-assured...
Read MoreThe right to repair your own farm machinery
(March 28, 2017) Most of us have purchased a DVD movie and watched the threats of jail and fines for copying the content on the opening screen. Any farmer who has purchased private sector based canola seed (and paid seven times the cost of publically created Certified Seed) knows about these types of draconian copyright notices and contracts as well. What many farmers may not know is the same...
Read MoreCanola model costs more, delivers less
(November 25, 2015) Last week I was heading to town and saw my neighbour’s two combines and a truck out in the field straight combining some standing canola. This is a relatively new practice and doing so next to the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains near the end of November certainly says something about climate change and so-called technological progress. In this case it is claimed...
Read MoreBurning Bridges to the Future
Ottawa book-burners hit Lethbridge Research Station (August 25/15) The now systematic burning of scientific libraries by Ottawa over the past three years can no longer be seen as just near-sighted policy. It has to be recognized for what it is: the active sabotage of our publically financed research and development capacity by people who do not value or understand knowledge in the public...
Read MoreHarper Government Trashes Another Federal Science Library
by admin on Aug 21, 2015 in Articles and Letters
From the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada OTTAWA, August 21, 2015 – Canadians hoping the Harper government’s “war on science” is at last ended – or at least put on hold for the period of the federal election campaign – will be saddened to learn of the destruction this week of yet another federal science library, this time at the Agriculture and Agri-Food...
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