Larry Powell Powell is a veteran, award-winning journalist based in Shoal Lake, Manitoba, Canada. He specialize in stories about agriculture and the environment. For decades, he worked for broadcast outlets in all four provinces in western Canada. This included a 5 years stint as Senior Editor for CBC Radio News in Saskatchewan. He is authorized to receive embargoed news releases on important, global stories, through the Science Media Centre of Canada, the Royal Society, Nature Research and the World Weather Attribution Network. He's a member of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada, the Canadian Association of Journalists and a past member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2020, Powell joined an international team of writers providing articles for the Swiss-based online journal, Focusing on Wildlife - celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth. In June, 2014, he was a panelist at a world conference in Winnipeg entitled Holding
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What's that Smell?
It was no secret the federal government wanted the CWB off its books.
Farmers have been plowed under,as they now have little control over the future of the new CWB.
Every once in awhile, many farmers will be jolted by a distinct
wafting of an unpleasant odour that emanates from the office of
Canada's agriculture minister.
This will be a reminder of Minister Ritz, and his abandonment
of a promise to consult with farmers and respect a vote
for those who were in support of single desk selling.
"Consulting of farmers ended up as Insulting of farmers".
Yes, the single desk selling of the original, now deceased CWB, has been terminated, but the officious manner in how it was accomplished will be remembered for a long time …..maybe even to the next Federal election which is just a few months away.