Agriculture

Project: Transform Alberta - How Alberta's Farmers, Entrepreneurs and Innovators Can Help Feed the World

On October 31, 2011, the global population reached seven billion. It’s predicted to grow by another two billion by 2050. At this rate, we’ll have to grow and raise more food in the next 50 years than we’ve produced cumulatively over the past 10,000 >

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Water Warnings
New research centre anticipates Alberta’s next drought >

Culture Cues

When hosting international guests, learn how to sidestep offensive and culturally insensitive blunders >

Economic Outlook 2002

Economists, banks and businesses agree Alberta's economic growth, though slowed, will lead the country in 2002. Social indicators tell a different story. As the Alberta government prepares to host its Future Summit in February, Albertans are asking, "What's it all for?" >

A Harvest to Forget

Drought and poor yields in most of the province make for a dismal year in agriculture
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Double Shade of Green

What is clear...is that more consumers are willing to pay more for a healthier slice of bread with a dollop of a preservative-free jam >

Dennis Laycraft

Dennis Laycraft – Executive Vice-President, Canadian Cattlemen’s Association >

The Politics of Exports

The bombs falling on Iraq earlier this year seemed a long way from Alberta farmer Ted Menziess wheat fields. But the provinces export businesses are increasingly getting caught in an explosive mix of global politics and international trade.
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Turning Up the Heat

Since wowing New Yorkers in a hot sauce taste-off in the Big Apple earlier this year, the Simmons family’s phone at their Lethbridge home has been ringing a little more insistently these days.
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The Cup that Cheers

At Characters Fine Dining in downtown Edmonton, the waiter presents before us a boxed tray of loose tea blends as if it were an exquisite tray of desserts. The selections have names like “Life is Beautiful,” “Chai-Ish” and “Happy Dreams” and their aromas linger as we make our choices.
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