Osler, a Canadian law firm, has tried to explain what’s happening with U.S. tariffs in a post on its website. It’s likely tariffs will persist, regardless of court decisions in the United States. Photo: Osler screenshot

Confused by Trump’s tariffs? Better ask a lawyer

A Canadian law firm is using its website in an attempt to make sense of the ongoing and difficult to understand trade chaos

Reading Time: 3 minutes Osler, a business law firm with offices in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa, Vancouver and New York, attempted to make sense of the ongoing trade chaos in a June 3 post on its website.


Editor’s Note: No pressure

Reading Time: 3 minutes What is your playbook going into this year’s crop? Not an easy question to answer right now, given the global trade turbulence. As Evan Shout writes in The Farmer’s Playbook, volatility is likely to be the most-used word in agriculture this year. But, he writes, it’s also during down times that some farmers are able […] Read more



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Editor’s Note: Ten years in

Reading Time: 3 minutes Ten years into any career can be a satisfying milestone. It can also be frustrating. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, as it’s been 10 years since my first novel was published. Since then, I’ve written a second, which was also published, and had plans for writing a third. But after the second […] Read more







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Editor’s Note: Writing your life

Reading Time: 3 minutes Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? — The Summer Day, Mary Oliver What are the ingredients of a successful multigenerational farm, or ag business? Or book or film or other creative project? They have more in common than you might think. It starts, I think, […] Read more


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