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Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell at the University of Alberta.
Columns, Hart Attacks

The wacky world of decision-making

Hart Attacks: When there is too much information, there must be an app for that

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Here’s one “flypaper” email list you want to avoid — the Conservative Party of Canada. I made the mistake back in Stephen Harper’s days as prime minister — it might have even been during his first term — but I sent a donation to the Conservative Party. The pitch was if I sent even a […] Read more
How good or bad is that unharvested crop?
Canola, Columns, Hart Attacks

How good or bad is that unharvested crop?

Hart Attacks: Farmers and processors won’t really know until quality is tested

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I am sensing a muffled drum roll in parts of Western Canada right now as a few thousand farmers across central and northern B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan are waiting to see what this unharvested crop looks like, when they do have a chance to get it combined. There were several thousand acres — about 10 […] Read more
Just for the record, I do have three readers
Columns, Hart Attacks

Just for the record, I do have three readers

Hart Attacks: And if you need a climate change speaker call Bruno for a good time

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My walk down memory lane through the pages of a 1938 Country Guide magazine (in the Feb. 7, 2017 issue of Grainews), and my deep analysis of the climate change/global warming issue (Jan. 24 issue of Grainews), drew some feedback from several readers. I figured this update would show just how this column can change […] Read more
We Canadians cannot control our ducks.
Columns, Hart Attacks

Mallards next on the U.S. no-fly list

Hart Attacks: We Canadians cannot control our ducks, and what they carry with them

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With a Twitter-happy president south of the border, I predict it is just a matter of time before Canada — and migrating Canadian ducks specifically — receives nasty tweets for pooping out weed seeds on U.S. farms. That would almost be a joke except that President Trump appears to be such an unpredictable character, with […] Read more
This is an image of a four-week old chimera — a pig embryo that has been implanted with human stem cells. The objective of this biotechnology is to determine if scientists might one day be able to use pigs as hosts to produce human organs that eventually will be harvested and used in human organ transplant programs.
Columns, Hart Attacks

Human-pig chimeras! Who knew?

There’s never a dull moment around the old biotech R & D table

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Ever since I met my first computer in about 1980, I’ve had this sinking feeling that science and technology is slipping away from me. There I was as a new kid in the Lethbridge Herald newsroom. I had used a typewriter all during my early career, and here I was sitting in front of a […] Read more
I remember the Gillette Lye tin with the lion on the label being in the barn.
Columns, Hart Attacks

In praise of old tractors and horses

Hart Attacks: It’s been a long journey from horses to tractors to aerial drone technology

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I was just catching up on my reading, going through the January 1938 issue of Country Guide magazine and I’m sorry I missed out on a contest to win a brand new Massey Harris tractor in a contest sponsored by Gillett’s Lye. All you had to do is to get every family member, friend, neighbour […] Read more
The federal carbon tax is already working!
Columns, Hart Attacks, Weather

The federal carbon tax is already working!

Hart Attacks: It's a miracle. I haven't been feeling any global warming on the Prairies this January


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I don’t know what the country is whining about. Alberta’s Climate Change Leadership program (I love that label), also known as a carbon tax, IS WORKING! As I pointed out to my inner circle in an earlier Facebook post, January 2017 is already much colder than it was in late December 2016, so just having […] Read more
Columns, Hart Attacks

The pros and cons of a head transplant

Hart Attacks: I have my doubts about whether or not this old brain can do a new body justice

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As the New Year kicks off, I have been giving some thought to getting my name on the head transplant waiting list — I just have to decide whether I want to be a donor or a recipient. Yes, that’s the new boundary that medical technology dares to be pushing as an Italian neurosurgeon Sergio […] Read more
Columns, Hart Attacks

Remembering farm “pool” perils

Hart Attacks: You no sooner move away from a place and they start making changes

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It was just 45 short years ago I left the farm in Ontario. I drove by the old house on a recent visit to the East to discover the new owners — a young farm family — had installed an aboveground pool. Man, a pool would have been great during those hot humid, eastern Ontario […] Read more
Columns, Hart Attacks

Why not a closed-for-business wall?

The Canada-EU trade deal (nearly) crumbles, leaving seven years of negotiation in its wake

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I think if Prime Minister Trudeau had any gumption at all he would build a wall to keep Americans and Belgians out of Canada. If they don’t like our trade deals we’ll just keep our scenery, oil and hockey players to ourselves. With this issue of Grainews being published on U.S. election day, I am […] Read more

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