Category: Opinion
Letters to the Editor: February 13, 2025
If CUPW and the federal government don’t reach a contract settlement before May 22, we may experience another postal strike.
Trump tariffs further complicate beef markets
North America’s beef cow population remains lower than at any time since 1961. That’s because of drought in some cattle-growing areas and relatively high feeding costs in recent years. Total beef cattle population has never been smaller in 74 years. The bottom-line analysis of U.S. Department of Agriculture economists appears in their Jan. 1 cattle […]
For interprovincial trade barriers, the devil is in the details
As a child, I had to have two smallpox vaccinations before entering Grade 1. You might wonder why. The reason is directly related to the place we find ourselves in Canada, with respect to the 47th President of the United States. When I began school, many decades ago, we lived in Quebec. But my doctor at […]
Letters to the Editor: February 12, 2025
This year our taxes went up an additional $705 for the year. This amounts to about six weekly supermarket visits for food alone
