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Roundup-Resistant Ragweed Suspected in Ontario Field

Staff - the Manitoba Co-Operator-5/7/2009 Researchers at Guelph's Ontario Agricultural College suspect they may have found Canada's first population of a glyphosate-resistant weed. Read more here.... Please scroll down and also read "Superweed Explosion Rocks Monsanto Heartland." (Drawing by Paul Hoppe)

Are California's Policy-Makers Making the Drought There Worse?

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By Tara Lohan, AlterNet. Posted May 8, 2009. Like much of the West, the state has serious water issues, but Mother Nature is only partly to blame. Read more here... (Photo l. courtesy of the New Republic Please also read, "Water Crisis Rocks L.A., Mexico City. Who's Next? (AP Photo r. Eduardo Verdugo)

Farms Race: The Obama's White House Garden Has Lit an International Movement on Fire

By Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. Posted May 1, 2009. The first garden has spurred a race to plant flags on other high-profile plots and lay claim to various other gardening firsts. Read more here.

Unprecedented Use Of DDT Concerns Experts

Science News ScienceDaily (May 9, 2009) Read more here...

Major Park Development Begins Before Public Consultation Do!

The Government of Manitoba has given the green light to Tim Hortons to develop a children's camp in a hitherto undisturbed part of Nopiming provincial park. The project, which has begun even before the public could be consulted, has raised the ire of environmental groups like the Manitoba branch of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee. To read more and sign a petition against the development, click here.

Update to "Big Cattle Operation Worries Local Resident"

A long-time resident of Roblin, Manitoba, CA, Ray Spencer, says the onus will apparently be on him if he wants to proceed with his concerns about a big cattle operation north of town, near Boggy Creek. (Please read the response of the owners of the operations, the Beasleys to the story, below and the author's response to that, immediately after.) In a story in the weekly newspaper, the Roblin Review in April, Spencer said those who fish in a small lake next to the ranch, were worried it might get contaminated by the waste from the nearby cattle. A provincial inspector went to the ranch to investigate his complaint. But Spencer says the Minister of Conservation, Stan Struthers, has now informed him, he'll have to prove the lake has been polluted by the cattle, before any action can be taken under provincial regulations. Spencer says he is angry that cattle producers don't seem to have to abide by the same sort of strict waste disposal regulations as, for example, cottage-own