What we're learning

The Hands That Feed Us: On Tour - The Podcast

I've been promising people a podcast for half a year now. 250 of you have signed up since the beginning of the year based on that promise, and all I've delivered have been quick YouTube updates and sporadic newsletters.

I want to settle down on an economic island

As I've been touring, I've had an eye open for places I might want to settle down once the tour ends. My search has been pretty open-ended, I haven't really been looking for anything in particular. I've mostly just been looking for a feeling.

The urban-rural divide is about class, not beliefs

I embarked on my tour with a great ambition: to bridge the nascent partisan divide that is growing in Canada. My hope was to bring rural com

Depopulation is a policy choice

On the prairies, it's a bit unremarkable to say "we are losing our rural communities".

How welfare creates food insecurity

"Can't buy me love, oh. Love, oh. Can't buy me love, oh. Oh!" The Beatles said it best in 1964. There are things that mon

What brings people together?

For the last two months, I've been an excuse to get people together in a room, watch a movie, and talk to their neighbours.