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Today’s winter solstice marks my 17th anniversary of retirement. I have now been retired nearly half as long as my working career. The universe has changed for industrial food scientists in Canada. I worked...

Paul Martin was Canada’s Prime Minister. Dubya was in the White House. If anyone said Donald, you thought of Disney’s cartoon duck.Maria had just finished her teaching career, and I was 6 months into...

I remember hearing about the “Guns versus Butter” model when I first started learning about macroeconomics back in the Cold War era. It’s a simple enough concept, really. Assume that a country can either...