Two Hutterite colonies in southwestern Saskatchewan are dealing with an outbreak of COVID-19. The Saskatchewan Health Authority said that two members of a colony in the Rural Municipality of Maple Creek tested positive last week. Another 14 were confirmed yesterday. Contact tracing is underway in the RM and the possibility of travel to Alberta is […] Read more
Tag Archives Province/State: Saskatchewan
Newspaper journalism has faced a digital tsunami
The internet and social media are cool, but the right-side/wrong-side journalism it has created are a curse
When I showed up at The Western Producer in November 1994 I was handed a Macintosh laptop and shown how the company email system worked. That was pretty cool. Instead of being shackled to a boxy desktop computer, I could take my sleek laptop wherever I was reporting from, plug into a phone line and […] Read more
Farmers’ attitudes and realities evolve over a quarter-century
(And so does the observer)
Farmers sure have changed in the past 25 years. Or have I changed in the quarter-century I’ve been covering farmers and farming for The Western Producer? Do the same things just look different to my older, more experienced and physically degraded eyes? It’s probably a bit of both, but looking back over these 25 years […] Read more
Life in the afterglow of the commodity boom: Is this why we’re all so mad and raging?
Everybody wants somebody to blame. Better blame Mr CommoditiesCycle
It’s a truly dark time in Canada, with the rise of an angry, raging, denunciatory politics taking over this nation the way that it has been doing in the U.S. for a few years now. The federal election supplied ample evidence of this, with ill will and personal attacks hanging over the entire campaign. Beyond […] Read more
