Mary MacArthur

After 82 years of meetings, the Alberta Women’s Institutes may change the way they’re organized in an effort to attract younger women. A resolution to simplify the four levels of bureaucracy to one was defeated, but a motion was passed to review the women’s institute’s structure. “Our problems are very, very different from when it […] Read more

June 5 was the last day to seed barley around Fort St. John, B.C., according to crop insurance rules, But on that day, Nick Parsons was only half finished seeding his barley, and anything seeded after June 5 cannot be insured. Now Parsons will gamble on a frost-free fall and seed the rest of his […] Read more

LEDUC, Alta. – The size 46 KK bra tacked to the wall stands out like a beacon at the Alberta Dairy Congress. Even dairy farmers used to talking udder size with their colleagues give the unusually large brassiere and the black lacy number on a lighted mannequin a second glance. “Some of the fellows ask […] Read more

CHAUVIN, Alta. – Ian Gordon and Ryan Bell live on farms far away from major urban centres. For raising a good crop it doesn’t make much difference, but for teenagers finding a summer job it creates a few problems. “A lot of kids are looking for jobs and there’s not many out there,” said Bell, […] Read more

An agreement has been reached between the British Columbia and Alberta governments to study ways to improve northern transportation routes. “By increasing the level of quality of rail service throughout the North, we can improve the movement of products and the result is economic growth and job creation,” said Dan Miller, B.C. employment and investment […] Read more

There have been a few changes to regulations, and a new act passed in Parliament, but it will be a few years before farmers are able to grow hemp legally, said an Alberta researcher. Stan Blade said while the new bill is another step along in the hemp growing process, it may be years before […] Read more

A Saskatoon export company has given up building a food processing plant in a small Alberta town after what it thought was a million dollar promise from a development group dried up like a garden in a drought. “We’re still hanging in there,” said John Postnikoff, president of Laura Foods. “Unfortunately we can’t do anything […] Read more

PEACE RIVER, Alta. – Peace River businesses will never rebuild unless the Heart River bridge is raised to the same level as a dike surrounding the town, says the director of a flooded mall. “Before the tenants are confident in us, the bridge has to be changed. That’s a 100 percent requirement,” said Gordon Troup, […] Read more

EDMONTON – Paper stacked in Phillip Hannemann’s house has taken on a geological formation. Ask him a question about his fight to stop an oil company from turning the pipeline under his farm into a sour gas pipeline and he can dig through the files to the correct era. After two years, he knows the […] Read more

Farmers with unharvested crops will be first in line to receive Alberta’s disaster income, says the minister of agriculture. Farmers with crops still in the field after winter can apply for government assistance from the Farm Income Disaster Program without having to harvest the crop first, said Ed Stelmach in a news release. The hardest […] Read more