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All Over the Map

In riding politics, the only common factor seems to be idiosyncrasy

This Dear Green Place

Our latest last best hope

There Shall Be a Sitting

Canada’s forty-third vote

Wayne Roberts

Wayne Roberts wrote about food policy for Toronto’s NOW Magazine and was the author of The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food.

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Avant Gardeners Awake!

Food systems affect everything from pollution to mental health June 2012
Food pairs well with writing. Writerly minds are attracted to the food and agriculture scene, and the food and ag scene comes across well on the printed page. It may be because food, agriculture and writing occupations all rely on compulsive-obsessive passion as the substitute for a financial motive for staying in the—pardon the pun—field. It may be because all the people who work in…