News & messages: / Les nouvelles:

Tom Manley in the community: / au sein de la communauté:

• Tom and Isabelle host a local food event at their house.
• Manley takes reins of Alfred Campus advisory committee.
• Tom Manley est le nouveau président au Conseil communautaire du Campus d’Alfred de l’Université de Guelph.
• Tom Manley is recognized with the Tri-Valley Conservation Award in October 2008.

• Board member of the Cornwall Carbon Reduction Initiative.

• Tom Manley se joint au conseil communautaire du Campus d'Alfred.

• Ecological Farming in Ontario - A Cover Story

• Homestead Organics: Entreprise agroalimentaire de chez nous, "Journal Agricom".

• Homestead Organics, an ethical business featured in Canadian Organic Grower.

Environment and Quality of Life: / L'environnement et la qualité de vie:

• Read the Organic Essentials articles from Tom in the Health Journal from the Millenium Health Center in Cornwall.
• Let’s argue pesticides, but please be consistent.
• Buy organic food directly from the farmer in Eastern Ontario.
• Livestock Can Be Environmentally Friendly.
• Organic Essentials - an educational series on organic agriculture.

Politics: / La vie politique:

• The HST in Ontario is a welcome change - a letter to the editor.
• The Liberal NDP Coalition is democracy in action - a letter to the editor.
• Tom Manley contributes to Stéphane Dion's Green Shift platform.
• Our voting system is broken, but it can be fixed with the Single Transferable Vote.
• In the 2008 election, Stephen Harper pitted ordinary Canadians against successful artists,
• Stephen Harper pursues his attack advertising like we were still in an election campaign.
• A letter to the editor: It is easy to be a Conservative. All they want is their money back!
• A letter to the editor: Let's stop the political hypocrisy and silly games concerning the closure of plants in the pulp and paper industry.
• A letter to the editor: the nature of political leadership and the signing of the Kyoto Accord.
• Liberal leader wants Manley to run, a cover story in the Standard Freeholder.
• Local votes go to Stéphane Dion who wins the Liberal Leadership race.
• Tom, Murray, and Carrie Manley with the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
• Tom Manley participates in the Agricultural committee of the Renewal Commission of the Liberal Party of Canada.
• Harper Mislead Canadian Farmer; a letter to the editor.

• Let's have more fair trade instead of this convoluted notion of free trade.

• Tom Manley joins the big league, debates Canadian agriculture in national politics.

Agriculture and Economics: / L'agriculture et la scène économique:

• Wayne Easter speaks at Homestead Organics' tenth anniversary celebration.
• A letter to the editor: Government supports are required in agriculture because of failed international markets.
• John Ikerd's views on what makes a sustainable agricultural community have fully reversed over his career. He is the first to admit it.
• Can we produce sufficient food and protect the environment at the same time? Tom presented  at What's Are We Eating - the 2006 conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
• Making sense of sustainability and organic farming.
• Rapidly declining global food supplies do not support commodity prices.

• The Future of Agriculture, and the farm rallies at Queen's Park in Toronto

• There must be another option to cheap agricultural commodities.

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