BSE

• Pass the softwood sandwich.  Opinion, The Western Producer, Nov 10, 2005.
   
• Here we go again on BSE file.  Opinion.  The Western Producer, June 9, 2005
   
• Hypocrisy and opportunity.   Opinion, The Western Producer, Apr 14, 2005
   
• Border issue: are we surprised?   Opinion, The Western Producer, Mar. 10, 2005
   
• Farmers must speak in one voice.  Opinion, The Western Producer, Feb. 10, 2005
   
• Open Sesame?  Waiting at border.  Opinion, The Western Producer, Nov. 4, 2004
   
• Feds letting farmers down, Holm says.  Bonnie Gropp, The Rural Voice.  Nov. 2004
   
• Time to start prying border open.  Kate Klages, Ontario Farmer, Oct. 26, 2004
   
• BSE:  It's Ottawa's turn to act.  Opinion, The Western Producer, Oct. 7, 2004

• Anti-American or pro-Canadian?   Opinion, The Western Producer, Sept 9, 2004
   
• Minority government good for ag.  Opinion, The Western Producer July 29, 2004

• Like Barn Flies to Cow Pies, Quebec Farmers' Advocate, July-August 2004.
   
• Farmers are worried to death.  May 2004 column, Country Life in B.C.
   
• CBC Commentary.  Radio One, January 8, 2004
   
• Lead Editorial.  January 2004 Country Life in BC
   
• The empowerment gap.  Dec 2003 column, Country Life in B.C.
   
• Mad cows, sad cows, glad cows.   Nov 2003 column, Country Life in B.C.
   
• Slam dunk!   Oct 2003 column, Country Life in B.C.
   
• Payin for politics.  Sept 2003 column, Country Life in B.C.
   
• Using NAFTA to open the border is a "slam dunk" Sep 25, 2003, Farmers' Independent Weekly
   
• NAFTA should be invoked to open border.  Sep 11, 2003, Farmers' Independent Weekly
  (SILVER, The O.R. Evans Award for Press Editorial, 2004, Canadian Farm Writers' Federation)
• CBC Commentary.  Radio One, August 14, 2003.
   
• Mad cows and red sugar.  August 2003 column, Country Life in B.C
• E-circulated  backgrounders:
  
  
       Nafta Deployed:  Opening the American Border to Canadian beef,
                                      setting the Americans straight on Cuban sugar.  July 17, 2003

               Nafta Deployed(Part Two):  Defending Canadian Beef - NAFTA Chapter 11 or Chapter 20?  July 23, 2003

               Nafta Deployed (Endnote):  Defending Canadian Beef -Yes, NAFTA Does Cover BSE, July 27, 2003

               Northern Prudence:  NAFTA Defense of Canada's Ranchers: 
                                                    Chapter 11: Investment and  Chapter 20: Dispute Resolution