Shellbrook Chronicle

By: Calvin Daniels It was interesting to see a recent headline in the ag press suggesting that world geopolitics and weather remain unpredictable.Now, this is not something particularly new.Crop prices have always been influenced by both forces.

By: Bruce Penton Ever since Canadian actor Michael Cera started hanging around the Toronto Blue Jays’ clubhouse, and inviting players and management over to his house to see his man cave shrine to the Blue Jays, Canada’s only Major League Baseball team has stunk.

By: Calvin Daniels As often happens, at a recent interview on only a tangentially-related topic, the conversation turned to a discussion about food security.The subject of the talk was how important it is at present to focus attention on personal and community security because culturally we have lost a great deal of our food knowledge.

By: Bruce Penton Baseball statistics used to be fairly straightforward. Batting average, home runs, and runs batted in were the important ones for hitters; victories, strikeouts, and earned run average were the categories that mattered for pitchers.