June 11, 2019

My company’s email address has been active for just over a year. In that span, I have received an extraordinary array of messages that echo the so-called “Nigerian scam.”...

June 5, 2019

The Star Wars Facebook page posted a photo on May 19 noting that on that day, 20 years earlier, The Phantom Menace came out. And I couldn't see it until my honeymoon. The...

May 29, 2019

It appears agriculture could once again be headed to a time when government policy determines the market for commodities with little consideration given to supply and ...

May 28, 2019

Today, at plus 24C, it seems like spring finally arrived. The green thumbs must be in their glory. A bit of rain last night, warm weather today, ah! What more could a ...

May 22, 2019

Scott Moe has lost the carbon tax fight, although this may be a temporary setback as the Saskatchewan Premier suggests. There will be similar court challenges in Manitoba...

May 21, 2019

I watched an interesting video the other day on Facebook. It was one of Canada’s new maritime helicopters, a Lockheed Martin (formerly Sikorsky) CH-148 Cyclone. The chopper...

May 15, 2019

In December 2017, the federal and provincial governments agreed that provinces would receive 75 per cent of the cannabis excise tax revenues instead of a fifty-fifty split....

May 8, 2019

You know, it’s kinda odd. Jason Kenney hasn’t even taken office yet as premier of Alberta, yet the feeling I get both in the media and online is that he has already taken ...

May 1, 2019

It was in February I wrote about the swine sector appearing to be under the threat of what would be its version of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), at least in terms...

April 24, 2019

It wasn’t all that many years ago that the focus for agriculture in Saskatchewan, at least from a provincial government perspective, was diversification. There was a ...

April 22, 2019

Over the past few weeks, Research Co. has taken a look at etiquette in Canada. We learned that Canadians are hearing colourful languagein public, and sometimes using it, ...