Someone dropped the ball last week when Canada’s new food guide was unveiled. They forgot about farmers. The guide, which tells you what to eat to be healthy, was rolled out at two grocery stores, not far from Ottawa....
Read MoreIn the two weeks since U.S. President George W. Bush pronounced his enhanced commitment to biofuel, momentum for it — and hysteria surrounding it — has switched into high gear. When Bush gushed about biofuel in his...
Read MoreCanada appears to be getting greener all the time. Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently announced the federal government will put more than $1.5 billion into funding for alternative energy technologies. That’s great for...
Read MoreGood for Toronto MP Olivia Chow. She’s leading a new initiative for affordable food for school kids. And while she needs to put some meat on the bones of her plan, which was unveiled last week at a news conference in...
Read MoreHuffing, puffing, pounding his chest and waving the flag, International Trade Minister David Emerson has said Canada will stop being a "Boy Scout" when it comes to international trade. Last week, he showed his moxy by...
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Owen Roberts is a faculty member in the Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications program at the University of Illinois. As an agricultural journalist, he is the past president of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and a lifetime achievement award recipient from the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation. His programs and research papers have been recognized nationally and internationally through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence, and others.