Author Archives: Other News Sources

Pay-per-minute auto insurance

Posted on April 10, 2001 by Other News Sources

(April 10, 2001) Pay-per-minute automobile insurance — a new approach that a major U.S. insurance company has tested in the Texas market — is hit with consumers. Continue reading →

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2) Big farms harvest subsidies

Posted on April 6, 2001 by Other News Sources

(April 6, 2001) Here is the reality of modern agriculture. For every $1 of profit a Canadian farmer makes, taxpayers provide $3.55 in subsidies. In the case of Ontario farmers, taxpayers kick in $6.20 in subsidies. That "very nice living for the farmer" that the George Morris Centre touts for the large-scale farmer is not an honest living. The only reliable economy of size in modern agriculture comes from harvesting subsidies. Continue reading →

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1) The small-scale family farm is an urban myth

Posted on April 6, 2001 by Other News Sources

(April 6, 2001) Lawrence Solomon should buy 25 acres and become a vegetable tycoon. When he does, he may learn a few things. Continue reading →

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Killing the land with farm subsidies

Posted on April 3, 2001 by Other News Sources

(April 3, 2001) As spring snow fell outside her Saskatoon office this week, Nettie Wiebe — farmer, professor and longtime political activist — was musing about an agricultural apocalypse. Ms. Wiebe grows grain and raises cattle on her family’s 2,000-acre spread in the town of Laura, 70 kilometres outside the city. She is also a leader of Via Campesina, an international movement to promote small-scale farming. Continue reading →

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