Your Editorial Notebook, “Canadians deserve reliable weather service” (WP, April 7) was first rate. There is an important extension to the picture you presented. You pointed out cuts in service were made in the mid-1990s and have not been restored. To restore services money is needed. Many other programs also need to be bolstered. Governments […] Read more
Stories by John S. Burton
Viterra jobs
Twenty-one Viterra jobs have gone to Calgary, allegedly so they could be closer to the leadership. I thought this was a Saskatchewan-based organization. Why the president had to go to Calgary, he will have to explain for himself. The board of directors has ultimate responsibility for deciding where the chief executive officer is located. Mind […] Read more
Clean dirt
I must complimentThe Western Produceron its excellent December 30 special feature issue on soils. When I was a boy, my parents told my two brothers and myself that there were two kinds of dirt. There was clean dirt and there was dirty dirt. I took my first soils class from John Mitchell. The dedication and […] Read more
