Reading Time: 3 minutes Women working in agriculture is not as rare as it used to be and with the help of peers and learning opportunities women are confidently stepping into leadership roles
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How women lead with confidence in agriculture
Women working in agriculture is not as rare as it used to be and with the help of peers and industry learning opportunities women are confidently stepping into leadership roles
From token to trusted: Women’s increasing role in ag organizations
Women’s roles in leadership are rising in agricultural associations across the country
Reading Time: 4 minutes Women’s roles in leadership is rising in agricultural associations across the country.
Celebrating women in agriculture
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you’ve been a long-time reader of Country Guide, you’ll have read many articles in our pages over the years that highlight women farmers, ranchers, industry leaders, mentors and partners. March 8 is International Women’s Day, a global, annual celebration recognizing the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, while advocating for accelerated gender […] Read more
Conservation on the farm: Empowering farmers to lead environmental change
Can farmers also be conservationists? This Nuffield scholar says yes
Reading Time: 5 minutes Can farmers also be conservationists? One Nuffield scholar travelled the world to find out.
Workers at Maple Leaf’s Lagimodiere plant in Winnipeg give overwhelming strike mandate
Reading Time: < 1 minute Workers at the Maple Leaf Consumer Foods plant on Lagimodiere Boulevard in Winnipeg, voted 98 per cent in favour of a strike mandate on Nov. 15.
EMC unveils Canada/U.S. trade relations service
Non-profit asks manufacturers to pose questions, provide answers
Reading Time: < 1 minute Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium is opening its Member Needs Help service to all Canadian manufacturers to help them navigate the U.S./Canada trade crisis.
Canada releases list of tariffed items
Federal goverment to impose tariffs on Feb. 4
Reading Time: < 1 minute The federal government has released a list of items imported from the United States to see 25 per cent tariffs starting on Feb. 4, 2025.
Every child matters
A corn maze commemorating the lost children is a place to reflect and remember
Reading Time: 4 minutes Children run through the pathways of a corn maze designed to honour children who died while attending residential schools.
Reconciling the painful past creates hope for a more promising future
The File Hills Colony near Balcarres, Sask. epitomized everything that was wrong about colonial attitudes towards Indigenous peoples. But new models for Indigenous agriculture are emerging
Reading Time: 6 minutes More than a century after its creation, there is no visible sign remaining of the File Hills Farm Colony in southern Saskatchewan. But the painful memories of an experiment that epitomized the culture of assimilation permeating that era’s attitudes towards Canada’s Indigenous peoples still live in the collective memories of residential school survivors. Likewise for some of the racist attitudes and policies that still exist today.
Sharing the countryside
Finding a new way of living together is key to the future of rural Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes The launch of the Treaty Land Sharing Network was about people who share the countryside, together setting a different course than the one scripted for them.