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Editor’s Rant: Get lost, grandkid

If we don’t talk openly about scams we’re condemned to have them repeated on us

By Dave Bedard March 11, 2025

It’s not like I marked the exact date or time on the calendar, but otherwise I still clearly recall the day I officially got old. It wasn’t while having to catch my breath after taking the stairs. It wasn’t from the first time my feet got sore standing in line, being asked if I wanted […] Read more

Columns, Editor's column

Editor’s Rant: We’re all Phil now

By Dave Bedard February 27, 2025

It’s been a long time since I’ve watched the movie Groundhog Day, where Bill Murray plays a weatherman doomed to live out the same day over and over again, but I’d say that to see pundits talking — on and around Groundhog Day, of all days — about the suddenly urgent need to diversify Canada’s […] Read more

Viterra’s Coulter Avenue elevator in Winnipeg on Jan. 22.

Columns, Editor's column

Editor’s Rant: Canadian graffiti

The government's conditions for a Bunge/Viterra marriage left much to be desired

By Dave Bedard February 11, 2025

I’ve got to admit, I’ve never fully understood the geometry behind federal regulators’ decisions on which assets a company has to sell in exchange for clearance on a big merger or takeover. There may well have been a solid reason why, after Husky sold off its retail gas stations in 2022, our neighbourhood wound up […] Read more

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Editor’s Rant: Lights out

Thoughts on green policy-making ahead of Justin Trudeau's departure

By Dave Bedard January 30, 2025

Up on the shelf where we keep light bulbs of assorted sizes and wattages, I just happened across an old compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) — remember, those bulbs that looked like an Arby’s curly fry wrapped in thin white glass? Talk about a relic from a bygone time in western civilization when, it seemed, the […] Read more

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Editor’s Rant: The price tag on progress

Points to ponder as a seed company announces a hybrid wheat breakthrough

By Dave Bedard January 4, 2025

All things considered, the announcement is more of a surprise than it should have been. Corteva Agriscience in mid-November said it’s made a “revolutionary breakthrough” with which it expects to produce hybrid hard red winter wheat for the North American market “as early as 2027” and add other hybrid wheats to the product line over […] Read more

Columns, Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Rant: Cinquante!

By Dave Bedard January 2, 2025

I can’t help it. I’ve watched enough French-language beer commercials that anytime I see the number 50 out in the wild, my first thought is to exclaim “Cinquante!” in an outside voice. My second thought is to not do that, because that would just make the birthday or anniversary party weird. With that earworm now […] Read more

Workers on a paint assembly line at Deere and Co.'s seeding equipment manufacturing plant at Moline, Illinois in 2016.

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Editor’s Rant: Next order of business

By Dave Bedard December 3, 2024

Given all that’s known so far about the guy, I’m not optimistic. Whether you or I like him or not, though, by this time next month, he’ll again be president of the United States. To anyone suggesting Canadians should just clam up about this development south of the border and mind our own business, I’d […] Read more

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Editor’s Rant: Doing their best to adjust

By Dave Bedard November 9, 2024

After reading through all the stories Lee Hart has compiled for you about Canada’s latest crop of Outstanding Young Farmers, I’m more convinced than ever of the OYF program’s value — not just to its immediate participants and alumni but to other farmers and everyone else. If you’d rather read them right away, I won’t […] Read more

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Editor’s Rant: The message of the medium

By Dave Bedard October 9, 2024

I’ve certainly lived in enough places where the FM options on your car radio all fade away before arrival. So even if it’s not my first choice in the car or anywhere, if you’re worried about the potential disappearance of AM radio service, you won’t need to work hard to convince me. My own personal […] Read more

Columns, Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Rant: The traveller’s dilemma

By Dave Bedard September 25, 2024

I note with interest that the organization formerly known as the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association has picked a venue for its next annual convention. I mean “with interest” as in “I’ll be interested to see if they get the same blowback they got 25 years ago, but I’m betting not.” The group, which recently […] Read more

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Editor’s column

Editor’s Rant: Get lost, grandkid

Editor’s Rant: We’re all Phil now

Editor’s Rant: Canadian graffiti

Editor’s Rant: Lights out

Editor’s Rant: The price tag on progress

Editor’s Rant: Cinquante!

Editor’s Rant: Next order of business

Editor’s Rant: Doing their best to adjust

Editor’s Rant: The message of the medium

Editor’s Rant: The traveller’s dilemma

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