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Farmers are not bargaining chips in rail labour disputes
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Field Notes
Looking upstream at the farmer mental health crisis in Canada Download 1.12 MB47 pages Across Canada, farmers are experiencing declining mental health. Producers have higher…
Some Canadian lawmakers want to go after whistleblowers in agriculture
Agricultural gag or “ag-gag” laws have slowly gained a foothold in Canada, putting animals, workers, the public and the planet at risk
AFB 2024: Food security
Alternative Federal Budget: what the federal government could achieve on food security
AFB 2024: Agriculture
Alternative Federal Budget: what the federal government could achieve in the agriculture sector
Canada and the U.S. are using free trade rules to attack Mexican food sovereignty
Ongoing USMCA case will test the agreement’s bias in favour of biotech companies and genetically modified foods
Farmers can’t rely on corporate-controlled GM crops for climate solutions
It’s theoretically possible to us GM as a climate solution—but in reality, it will worsen corporate industrial agriculture.
Growing farmland inequality in the Prairies poses problems for all Canadians
First published in The Conversation February 28, 2023 Real estate is a hot topic in Canada. Most Canadians are acutely aware of how home prices…
Three amigos or fair-weather friends?
This week’s North American Leaders’ summit is soured by dubious challenges to Mexican food and energy sovereignty
Why farmers are not celebrating CETA’s five-year anniversary
CETA cannot and will never deliver on the promises made to the beef and pork sectors. It will, however, continue doing serious harm to our dairy farmers.
Learning to raise and cook food from nana, not a book
Bress ‘n’ Nyam and the Black farmers who are returning to the countryside to steward the land.
The farmers’ protests and the looting of India
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