LifeWater fightsMuch of the world is desperately short of fresh water. Are future water wars inevitable?
On CampusUBC farm brings city slickers back to earthUniversity leads the pack in today’s grow-your-own revolution
OttawaIggy and the farmers (II)A bit of video from Michael Ignatieff’s stop today in Kent Bridge, Ontario has been posted to YouTube. The pitch was not unlike...
CanadaCanada to shut down all prison farmsThe farms are the stuff of lore in the U.S., but they’ll be history here
On CampusUGuelph cuts women’s studies and organic agriculture$16-million deficit puts other programs on the chopping block as well
GeneralBursting the dot-corn bubbleBack in August I wrote a piece for the magazine on the inflated value of Potash Corp., the Saskatchewan fertilizer producer that...
OttawaLiveblogging the Agriculture committee - Good things grow in Ontario, and we’re hoping it stays that way.NOTE TO READERS: It turns out that I was - well, let’s just call it what it was: wrong, wrong, wrong, at least as far as my...
OttawaSaved by the bell - the cowbell, evenITQ may have a committee to liveblog this week after all - and a potentially juicy one, too. I forget who it was who first alerted...
GeneralDo we dare eat an American peach?Must-reads: Chantal Hébert on Elections Canada’s risk exposure; Dan Gardner on bisphenol A; Christie Blatchford on the Toronto...