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Here's how bears and farmers can live in harmony

It’s easy to see why farmers and grizzlies might not get along: the bears love dining on cornfields, silage silos and compost piles — and once they’re used to an easy meal, they can be dangerous.

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By Marc Fawcett-Atkinson | News, Food Insider | October 9th 2020

A 1930s-era federal agency helped farms recover from an ecological crisis. It's time for a replacement, advocates say

Environment Canada predicts the upcoming decades will transform Canada’s climate, forcing farmers to re-evaluate everything from which seeds to buy to which pastures their livestock graze. That’s a huge challenge for farmers with no time to pore over scientific studies and models charting how the climate crisis will transform their land.

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By Marc Fawcett-Atkinson | News, Food Insider | October 5th 2020

B.C. seed growers reaping sales surge thanks to the pandemic

COVID-19 has had unexpected beneficiaries: B.C.’s small-scale seed growers. The B.C. Eco-Seed Co-op, a co-operative of roughly a dozen seed farmers in the province, saw its sales skyrocket.

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By Marc Fawcett-Atkinson | News, Food Insider | October 1st 2020

B.C. imported $9.6M of vegetable seed last year — but that's not all bad, farmers say

Brent Harris’ bean crop relies on South American seed. He’s not alone. Commercial vegetable growers in the province like Harris — who owns an organic bean, pea, barley and potato farm in Delta, B.C. — depend on seed from around the world. And despite a pandemic-induced global rush on seed, that might not change.

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By Marc Fawcett-Atkinson | News, Food Insider | September 1st 2020

Where in the world do B.C. farmers get their seed?

Brent Harris’ farm holds a world map — a map that grows. That’s because the Delta, B.C., pea, bean and potato farmer’s seeds were grown on farms from Chile or China — and places in-between.

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By Marc Fawcett-Atkinson | News, Food Insider | September 1st 2020

Yukoners turn to farming to build self-sufficiency

Yukoners are turning to farming to boost self-sufficiency and build the market for local food, a trend local agriculture experts say is being reinforced by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Coronavirus in Canada

By Brenna Owen | News, Politics | July 27th 2020

Weed, not food, drives record sales for B.C. farmers

Cannabis — not food — was the most profitable use of B.C.’s arable land last year.

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By Marc Fawcett-Atkinson | News, Food Insider | July 24th 2020

Polluter bailouts and lobbying during Covid-19 pandemic

From tar sands oil to aviation, global business sectors have called for suspension of environmental protections

Coronavirus in Canada

By Damian Carrington | News, Politics | April 19th 2020

Trudeau government considering relief for farmers who need extra fuel to dry out soggy grain

The Green Party added its voice to the chorus calling on the government to give farmers an exemption for the tax on the natural gas or propane used in grain-drying machines.

By Carl Meyer | News, Energy, Politics | January 20th 2020

A Canada apart: why rural Canadians rejected the things urban Canadians voted for (mostly)

Canada’s federal election in mid-October laid bare fractures between different parts of the country - resurgent separatists in Quebec joined by disgruntled provinces out west. And that division out in the prairies seemingly only got worse once the votes were counted. Talk of western separation and Wexit followed the new minority Liberal government back to Ottawa.

Election 2019

By Morgan Sharp | Analysis, Politics | November 12th 2019

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