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Otto Lang hasn’t gotten any less confident or challenging in his autumn years. He noted at the beginning of his speech just now at the Fields on Wheels conference here in Winnipeg that he was likely to seem like he was stabbing “91-and-a-half percent” of the audience in the heart with what he was going […] Read more

I’m at the U of M Transport Institute Fields on Wheels conference. All about life after the end of the CWB monopolies. I’ll be posting live here and on Twitter. Look for me on Twitter at EdWhiteMarkets.

Wow, lots of stuff is happening on the CWB file and I get the strong sense this train is really beginning to roll, driven by the government and organizations that support the ending of the wheat board monopolies. Today Gerry Ritz announced that the Canadian Canola Growers Association is going to be in charge of […] Read more

This would be the perfect week to employ the decades of experience, insightfulness and crisp, clean writing of Adrian Ewins. The committee making recommendations for the concrete steps necessary to end the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly has just released its report, and it’s tricky stuff that Adrian could have dealt with easily and succinctly explained […] Read more

Lots of us have denounced the Loonie in recent years as it has soared high and beaten crop and meat prices down. The rising Loonie was one of the main things that caused so much pain and devastation in the prairie hog industry a couple of years ago and which led so many of Canada’s […] Read more

The other day my colleague across the hall commented: “Man, you’re bearish!.” And he was right, because I’d been pushing my aged and creaky idea that we’re reliving the 1970s or the 1930s, and it’s not clear which yet. (I’ve been favoring the 1930s scenario, but the March ’09 until April ’11 rally has confounded […] Read more

Here’s how I know it’s the autumn: I start watching horror movies and feel calmed by the experience. I repeatedly listen to the album Disintegration by the Cure, a depressive album from a depressing year (1989) that also oddly uplifts me. And I read dark things and feel cheery afterwards, in a subdued way. I […] Read more

The achingly slow dance of death of Greece’s finances has sucked the confidence out of the world’s stock markets and caused a lot of economic angst. Here’s what the S and P index has done for the past two months: It’s been so awful watching the Eurozone coming apart, and the dissimulations of Europe’s politicians, […] Read more

When I wandered out east to the University of Western Ontario in 1990 to study journalism, it seemed a Golden Age of Beer. Not only did I seem to drift through life atop an ocean of cheap university pub draft – my main food group in those days – but beer had suddenly gone from […] Read more

A colleague across the hallway from me and I often humorously wonder how long Europeans will go on pretending that Greece can be saved from bankruptcy. It’s been obvious for a couple of years now that Greece was going to default because even the mathematically-challenged such as I can do basic scribbling that reveals that […] Read more