The cost of losing food sovereignty
CWBA presentation to rural Alberta NDP (April 23, 2017) A few weeks ago I was invited to the annual general meeting of the Alberta NDP Party’s Rural Caucus to give a 20 minute presentation on issues facing agriculture which you can read here. The meeting was held in Camrose, Alberta, in the heart of some of the most productive farm land in Alberta. The audience for this meeting consisted of...
Read MoreOptimism for 2016
(January 1, 2016) This Canadian New Year brings much hope for western grain farmers. The Prime Minister has promised to demolish the Harper legacy “brick by brick” and has already started to do so by un-muzzling Federal scientists. His administration is even looking at re-opening the prison farms which the Harper Conservatives closed with their typical contempt for cooperative rural...
Read MoreAlberta experience demonstrates need for De-Harperfication
Broken bond of trust between rural Alberta and government not healed by NDP election (December 1, 2015) Readers from outside Alberta may be amazed at the tempest being generated over the Alberta NDP government’s move to protect Alberta’s farmers and ranchers from ambulance-chasing lawyers and private disability insurance providers. What could there possibly be to dislike about...
Read MoreAlberta goes orange
– and reasserts its cooperative heritage (May 6, 2015) Watching last night’s Alberta election results were at once surprising and inspiring – surprising because of the scale of the upset after 44 years of the same party in power. Inspiring because the NDP victory under Rachel Notley builds on an Alberta tradition of cooperation and community development much deeper than the more...
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