Market upheaval ahead as Conservative policy shift looms
The piece warns of 12 to 13 months of stress for Western Canadian farming driven by weather and price fluctuations, then focuses on political change. With a long standing grain framework, the Conservatives' majority may end the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly and alter the Canadian Grain Commission rules, signaling upheaval for farmers selling wheat and barley.
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Brian Mulroney
Canadian Wheat Board
Gerry Ritz
Canadian Grain Commission
CWB and
Grain Commission
Luck and misfortune echo across science and space
A University of Hertfordshire study splits volunteers into lucky and unlucky groups to test attention and luck, noting unlucky people miss chances. The piece recounts Blind Willie Johnson and Eugene Shoemaker, illustrating how individuals’ luck or fate interacts with effort, passion, and chance, from a burned Texas home to lunar ashes on a space mission.
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University of Hertfordshire
William Johnson
Willie
Blind Willie
Heaven
Blind Willie Jefferson
Earth
Eugene — Shoemaker
Blind Willie Johnson
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Eugene Shoemaker
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Shoemaker
Shoemaker-Levy
Jupiter
Solar System
Tim Hudaks