As I write this at 7:30 on Monday morning, before the final day to cast our ballot, not even the best pollsters, newspapers, radio or TV anchors will predict who will guide the ship after all our votes are counted

Centuries ago, before trains, automobiles, airplanes, tanks or other armored vehicles, ships took a major position in international trade, exploration and the security of a country.  The choice of a captain who would guide the ship was not taken lightly.

Before I go any further, I must state that during my lifetime, I have voted for most of the various political parties but my decision was based on my trust in the candidate and view on their party policy rather

Sometimes it’s just time to sit back and think about why things happened. August 29, was one of those days for me. I was sitting in a comfortable lawn chair in the back of the old drive shed where the

We have been recently reminded of the extreme danger of a state, political party or province using oppressive tactics to take control of a country when the Taliban forcibly took over Afghanistan.

Majority control of government? Recovery of the economy? How our government dealt with COVID-19? Climate change? Or control over language? Many successful countries in the world have worked with minority governments for decades. Every political party wants a majority government

Fifty years ago, nobody specialized in environmental science because there were no jobs when you graduated. I can remember when the first classes were offered at McGill on environmental problems and they were not very popular. Now most universities offer

Twenty-five years ago I wrote a series of articles: “The seven bank accounts of a farmer”(Soil, seed, continuous education, the “team,” neighbours, politics, and money). After twenty five years; I still realize that “soil” is still the most important “bank

I am writing this article because over my lifetime of farming I have been asked many times “why can we no longer buy: many herbicides, insecticides, mouse killers, etc.?” Many of the poisons that have been removed from sales, except

When Canada was first settled, most immigrants came to Canada for the opportunity to get free land and farm. Whether they came from Germany, Prussia, France, England, Scotland, Ireland, USA, or any other country, freedom from political strife, and the