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Urban Cowboy: 'A summer day in a can'

Urban Cowboy: 'A summer day in a can'

Local drink sensation flying off LCBO shelves
Urban Cowboy: Ontario ag interests head south to bolster trade

Urban Cowboy: Ontario ag interests head south to bolster trade

The team, which includes members from the Ontario Federation of Agriculture and the Egg Farmers of Ontario, will continue to defend supply management and the interests of Ontario farmers and processors
Urban Cowboy: Is Canadian wine ready for Canadian airlines?

Urban Cowboy: Is Canadian wine ready for Canadian airlines?

In a country like ours, with a booming wine industry, the inability of both airlines and wineries to match meals or snacks with Canadian wine sends conflicting messages to domestic and foreign travellers alike who are told Canadian wines can run with the pack
Urban Cowboy: Should you go to the vet? Ask Telehealth Pets

Urban Cowboy: Should you go to the vet? Ask Telehealth Pets

More than half of the households in Canada own a pet. Yet when they’re suddenly sick, or might be, the only alternative is an emergency call to a veterinarian. Thank goodness that options exists
Urban Cowboy: Chicken legs its way onto more consumer plates

Urban Cowboy: Chicken legs its way onto more consumer plates

A new report from Statistics Canada, citing the latest information available (from 2015), says that for the first time, Canadian per capita consumption passed 70 lbs. That’s up almost two pounds over the previous year, which is huge in the commodity world. Overall, we’re now eating almost twice as much chicken as we did in 1980
Urban Cowboy: A taste of Canadiana

Urban Cowboy: A taste of Canadiana

New exhibit gives public glimpse of culinary collection
Urban Cowboy: Snowmobiling — Fun, exercise, or both?

Urban Cowboy: Snowmobiling — Fun, exercise, or both?

Wrestling a powerful 450-lb. machine through hilly twists, turns and deep, powdery snow takes a measure of human endurance and strength
Urban Cowboy: Food prices are . . . dropping?

Urban Cowboy: Food prices are . . . dropping?

"People notice extremes, and most of us won’t really notice this two per cent drop because our bills vary more than that from week to week" - Prof. Mike von Massow, a University of Guelph agriculture and food economics researcher
Urban Cowboy: Damn the deep freeze — it’s Canada’s Agriculture Day

Urban Cowboy: Damn the deep freeze — it’s Canada’s Agriculture Day

Farmers never really stop producing food regardless of season. This month is a chance to celebrate the agriculture sector
Urban Cowboy: Game on — researchers team up to tackle malnutrition and depression

Urban Cowboy: Game on — researchers team up to tackle malnutrition and depression

For a football fanatic, Karen Shlemkevich is spending Super Bowl Sunday in an unusual way and she hopes it’s the start of something game changing, for long-term care residents everywhere