Beer From Space

Everything sounds a little cooler when it is followed by the words "from space"."Last week, Sapporo announced that they would soon be serving space beer, "the world's first beer made with barley descending from...

Most Complex Crop Circle Ever Discovered in England

I'm not usually one for unsolved mysteries, UFOs and crop circles, but Rory Tate would have had a field day with this one: a crop circle that represents the first 10 digits of pi? That's pretty impressive, even by...

Wiltshire crop circle identified as symbolic code for first ten places of pi

" Mathematicians are perplexed after a highly complex crop circle appeared in a Wiltshire field - depicting a fundamental mathematical symbol. The circle is, apparently, a coded image representing a complex...

Beer Not Biofuel!

Trouble brews in Germany as boom in biofuel jacks up price of beer "AYING, Germany (AP) - Like most Germans, brewer Helmut Erdmann is all for the fight against global warming. Unless, that is, it drives up...

I Fear For Democracy

"Gee I thought the Conservatives represented all the Western Farmers..... Ken Larsen, a grain farmer from central Alberta, said he thinks farmers will be the big losers if the wheat board collapses."

GrainVi$ion

"Just googling around and I found this little item about the Wheat Board from the folks that want to kill it. It was addressed to Ralph Goodale and is from 2005. Clearly what the Liberals would not grant them Chuck Strahl has. And if you notice from the signatories, they are...

Real Costs of Bio-Fuels

"The Green Party strongly supports the development of biofuels But at what cost? The death of the Wheat Board so that the big agribusiness corporations that are producing bio-fuels, like Archer Daniels Midlands, can gain more state subsidies And increase the profits they...

BioFuel and The Wheat Board

"Is there a connection between the Harper announcement promoting bio-fuels and the push to kill the Wheat Board. Why of course there is. Its called Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) who is a shareholder in Agricore the Alberta based Wheat and Barley exchange, and they are the...

Privateer Runs Wheat Board

" The Conservatives have pulled their coup on the farmers run Wheat Board. And in firing the current CEO his replacement is pro privatization, pro corporate monopolies. Strahl made his firing public complete with staged rally."

Playing In The Pool

"While eyes are focused on the debacle that is the Tories failed attempt to impose dual marketing in the Wheat and Barley market, with their backdoor attempt to dismatle the Wheat Board lets look at who benefits from dual marketing."

Tories Face Farmer Backlash

"As I said here before the Conservatives are listening to the smallest minority of the social conservatives in the their party base when it comes to the Wheat Board. Of course it fits with their neo-liberal idoeology, which is why they do it. However when it comes to the...

Lorne Gunter On The Wheat Board

" The Harpocrites have taken their attack on the Wheat Board straight from Gunters advice column."

Albertans Tax Dollars At Work

"NDP Slams Money Spent On Anti-CWB Ad Campaign A million dollar PR campaign by the Ralph Klein gang against the Wheat Board, which the MAJORITY of Alberta and Prairie farmers support...money well wasted"

Conservatives Attack Prairie Farmers

"The New Conservative Government of Canada having its roots in this backwater minority lobby has taken on the Canadian Wheat Board and has decidied that one of its election promises, though not one of its five priorities, was to carry on the Reform party tradition and attempt...

Which Priority Is This?

The destruction of the Canadian Wheat Board.

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