John Beckham

Beckham is a farmer who writes from Winnipeg. We live in an age of information. Millions are employed in the information technology field. Television channels, radio stations, books, newspapers and the big one, internet, spew out tons of information every single day. But information is only as good as the person or organization dispensing it. […] Read more

Beckham is a farmer who writes from Winnipeg. With a stronger minority but short of a majority, Stephen Harper in his victory speech promised to carry out the things he has committed to. One of those things is the destruction of the Canadian Wheat Board. He will no doubt wait to see the outcome of […] Read more

Beckham is a farmer who writes from Winnipeg. A few years ago, I listened to several lectures by Conor Cruise O’Brien, participating in the Massey Lectures. While a good deal of what he said has become somewhat faded in my memory, some of it has remained clear. The central theme of his lectures was the […] Read more

Beckham is a farmer who writes from Winnipeg. I am old enough to remember what it is like to break up land that has never grown a crop, and to see the burgeoning vigour of new land, the clear disease-free straw, the weedless stubble, the bulging heads of grain. From 1949, when my brother and […] Read more