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David J. Climenhaga
| Problems marketing Canadian oilseeds in China are not the result of Chinese politics. They have their origins in the politics of the former Harper government, right here in Canada. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Agricultural institutions are just some of the items on the long list of co-operative and cost-sharing mechanisms Harper hopes to destroy -- including our public health-care system. |
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Karl Nerenberg
| The Canadian Wheat Board must privatize itself by 2017. It rejected an offer from a farmers' group and now may be planning to "give" its assets to a U.S. corporation. That makes some MPs very angry. |
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Ole Hendrickson
| Problems in getting wheat to market may not be a top-of-mind issue for Canadians living east of the Prairies, but could have a significant impact on the next federal election. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| As a result of the Harper Government’s decision to kill the farmer-controlled single-desk Wheat Board, grain prices paid to farmers are plummeting in Canada. |
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Bernadette Wagner
| Earlier this week, the regina mom and her friend, Cherie Westmoreland, had a conversation about the prairie grasslands in anticipation of the talk Grasslands in Peril by Candace Savage. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Wildrose leader to Twittersphere: The peasants are rioting because they have no rib eye? Let them eat tainted chuck steak! |
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David J. Climenhaga
| In addition to whatever caused E. coli contamination inside XL Foods' plant in Alberta, the key participants in this fiasco have provided a textbook example of how NOT to handle a PR crisis. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| The XL Foods catastrophe keeps getting worse. But from our governments, all we hear is bland assurances that there’s nothing to worry about and complaints about "too much" regulation. |