Category: issue 44

Alternative Employment and Shared Economy By Francine St.Amand Call it Shared Living, Cooperative Household, Collective Housing , Alternative Living. The Golden Girls of the 1980’s sitcom were on to something. Maybe it was a preview of what was to come as a necessary choice some three decades later.  ...

Cold and flu season is upon us once again. It seems like this time of year there are all kinds of noxious plagues going around for us to get walloped by, whether it’s just a minor case of the sniffles to getting laid out for a couple of weeks...

A Fascinating Fluid By Liza Davenport Everybody knows that breast milk is best. But does everybody know why?   There are so many wonderful benefits to breastfeeding, not just for baby…but for mom as well! But before you can fully understand the benefits, you have to know how this...

New Brunswickers leave, Their homes today, With mouths to feed, And bills to pay What happened to our forestry? With great mills of paper and lumber! It built communities and brought prosperity, A future now encumbered Jobs grow scarce, Cuts are made, Economy downsize, Priorities weighed What happened to...

During a recent visit to the Arts and Crafts Centre in Perth I got to chatting about food with Terrie. We were discussing desserts and she asked me if I knew of a good recipe for Black Bean Brownies.   Now, this is a dainty I’d heard and read...

All About The Beer & Our Local Economy By Mitch Biggar Craft beer – it’s good for the local economy, it has flavor, it’s nutritious and healthier than corn laden macro beer and let’s not forget the environment – local craft brewers pollute less making our future cleaner and...

From the editor… Some interesting and positive bits of news have caught my attention over the past week. These little pearls of positivity brighten my day and give me hope for the future!   Maine just became the second state to require GMO labelling on food-but only after other...

Keep in mind, that we must always beware of imitations. Kind of like comparing the Ricardian theory of rent (David Ricardo 1772-1823), also called the “economic rent” model, to agriculture’s modern “ecofallow system”. Never mind if’n you don’t “get it”! Like, there are some 800,000 “apps” one can download,...

the old man in the hat Our past always come back to haunt us. Some modern theories of our current penchant for consuming too many calories claim that this need to overeat is based on our genetic, hunter gatherer past, prior to the establishment of farming communities. Feast or...

Jamie Sutherland Editor’s Note: On January 7 the tiny community of Wapske became ground zero for a terrifying conflagration as 16 cars of a CN Rail freight train derailed, 8 of which were loaded with crude oil and propane that exploded and caught on fire. Thankfully, there were no...