Grandpa said: “take a look back, before you take any big or small step ahead”. For years, I was envious of our great neighbour south of the border. Now when I look south, I feel more sorry than envious. How

Too often, we see some level of government forcing citizens to do this or that because they can stir up hatred between people which allows that fraction of government to divide and conquer more votes. Both in the west and

Never in my entire life did I think that I would write about this. Each morning at school, when I proudly stood up, saluted the flag and sang O Canada, I was thinking “how lucky we are to live in

We no longer live in Grandma’s world. We all know thousands of great, honest, people that we would trust with our life. But there are a few out there who would scam or take advantage of anyone not watching. Several

Winston Churchill once said democracy was the absolute worst way to run a country, but any other way was unthinkable. The richest one per cent of the world’s population owns more than the poorest 95 per cent of the world’s

Christmas gifts were different this year. But the animals still came first. Seventy-five or 80 years ago, when I got up, I knew that Santa had been here because the milk and homemade cookies were gone and the second-cut hay

When a young Canadian was told, “you can’t build something that can fly,” that just made the challenge even greater for J.A.D. McCurdy in the Silver Dart designed by an association founded by Alexander Graham Bell. He just proved that

When I started ag college almost 60 years ago, the extensive use of chemicals on the farm was just becoming the norm. Grandpa had used a little commercial fertilizer on fields far away from the barn. Horses were used to

At a recent AGM of the Quebec Farmers’ Association, the subject of AI (artificial intelligence) came up. As I looked around the room, the majority in attendance had that deer-in-the-headlights look on their face. After we had talked about AI