Stand your ground laws in the United States generate a lot of negative press, possibly because the phrase implies that people should become vigilantes rather than flee the scene and call the police. In Canada, though, the laws around self-defence are surprisingly similar to stand your ground legislation. “Generally, when it comes to your own […] Read more
Stories by Robert Anson
Ditch bewitched: ergot fungus thrives where farmers fail to tread
CARLYLE, Sask. — On a nearly perfect July morning, with blue sky and few puffy clouds, Chris Birk wandered into a durum field along Highway 13 in southeastern Saskatchewan. Birk, a CWB farm service co-ordinator who was leading farm journalists and commodity analysts on a crop tour of the region, pointed out a problem with […] Read more
Meat packers fear cap on temporary foreign workers
Canada’s meat processing industry is “very concerned” about changes made to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, says Ron Davidson of the Canadian Meat Council. The federal government unveiled reforms to the program June 20, including a 10 percent cap on the proportion of a workforce that can be low-wage temporary foreign workers. “The cap will […] Read more
