Tai x Ng SAe f tY firSt timeS fOr egg SectOr Federal government amends proposed tax changes » PG 3 Sector wins provincial safety award » PG 13 Oct Ober 19, 2017 SerVinG manitOba FarmerS Since 1925 | VOl. 75, nO. 42 | $1.75 manitObacOOperatOr.ca Legal opinion backs Pallister’s Brandon’s dome slated approach to carbon pricing for January unveiling Manitoba’s ‘Green Plan’ to cut emissions will One of the last remaining structures from the 1913 Dominion be out soon and the Exhibition had fallen into serious disrepair over the decades premier says he wants Manitobans’ feedback BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff anitoba’s decision to develop its own plan to M cut carbon emissions, to be released soon, has been vindicated, says Premier Brian Pallister. “If we just say no, we get Trudeau,” Pallister told report- ers Oct. 11 after the provincial government released a report prepared by Bryan Schwartz, a University of Manitoba law pro- fessor, that concludes the federal government has the constitu- tional power to impose a carbon tax on the provinces. As part of Canada’s commit- ment to cutting carbon emis- sions in the battle to slow climate change the federal government says it will impose a $50-a-tonne carbon tax, starting at $10 in 2018 and peaking by 2022, if provinces don’t do it themselves. While Pallister favours cut- ting emissions, he said Ottawa’s plan doesn’t reflect Manitoba’s “unique” situation, including that See carbon pricing on page 6 » Brandon’s dome building has been a mark of the Provincial Exhibition for over a century. Now, after years of renovations, it’s finally in the homestretch to reopening its doors. Photo: Alexis Stockford “This project is a link between It was named a provincial The project hit a number of BY ALexiS StOckfOrD agriculture and city life at the heritage building in 1984, and delays since work began, not Co-operator staff end of the day and that’s what later earned a nod from Parks least of which were due to makes it so important on a his- Canada, becoming an honorary changeover at all three levels of n 1913 it hosted throngs of torical standpoint,” said Gord national historic site. government, impacting grants. visitors to Canada’s annual Peters, fundraising committee By the turn of the century, “The whole group wasn’t I Dominion Exhibition. Most co-chair and one of those to ini- however, the building was all that familiar with what is recently it was an unheated tially spearhead the project. showing its age. By 2009, it had entailed with a heritage build- storage building for the pro- The announcement has been made its way onto the Heritage ing,” Diane Peters, Restoring vincial exhibition, bordering a long time coming. Canada Foundation’s top 10 list the Glory co-chair, said. “As on derelict. Now Brandon’s Properly called the Dominion of the most vulnerable historical soon as you go to do some- dome building is set to return Display Building II, the dome buildings in Canada. thing, no, you can’t just put to its former glory. building was built in 1913 Renovations started later a window up, it has to be the Organizers say the structure is for the national Dominion that year. By 2011, the province window with the same (type on track for a January unveiling Exhibition before being folded had pitched in $450,000 for the of) wood as it was in 1913. The and will be open to crowds for into the Provincial Exhibition’s project and a group of locals roof, the designs, there were the first time in many years at annual fairs, the Royal Manitoba had banded together to form layers and layers.” the next Royal Manitoba Winter Winter Fair, Manitoba Summer the Restoring the Glory fund- Fair in March. Fair and Ag Ex. raising committee. See dome on page 6 » CHURCHILL: FEDS THREATEN LAWSUIT » PAGE 8 Publication Mail Agreement 40069240 2 The Manitoba Co-operator | October 19, 2017 INE SiD Di D you know? L iVESToCk Some plants rise to For the birds challenge of cutting Cranberries could help Research findings could increase productivity and lower pesticide use eventually replace antibiotics in chicken rations 12 STAFF ow would you like a canola plant that just CRoPS H got tougher as flea beetles tried to eat it? Ev e n t u a l l y t h a t m a y become reality if new research from the University Blackleg test of Illinois pans out over time. Researchers there have Make sure you’re been studying a group of matching resistance plants known as “overcom- genes with the race in 17 pensators,” which react to your field being clipped by increasing their plant chemistry to grow faster and create a sort of “plant venom.” New research may eventually see plants created that can shake off insect The study, published in the damage on their own. PHOTO: UniversiTy of Minnesota FEATuRE journal Ecology is the first to link this activity to three interconnected molecular About 90 per cent of her- can pump out more proteins Syrian wheat pathways. That’s significant baceous flowering plants needed to perform cellular deal because it could lead to the engage in a process called tasks. development of new methods endoreduplication — dupli- Some plants multiply their Assad quietly cuts to boost growth and reduce cating all of the genetic mate- genomes again and again in a deal with the the need for insecticides, rial in their cells without cell response to being browsed. Islamic State to feed 24 researchers say. division, the researchers One example is scarlet gilia, a population “We found that the plants said. This process increases red-flowered plant that grows that overcompensated — cell size, allowing the plants in western North America with higher reproductive suc- to quickly rebound from and is browsed by elk and cess after having been dam- damage. mule deer. aged — also produced more Each round of endoredu- Researchers say in some CRoSSRoADS defensive chemicals in their plication doubles a cell’s out- cases they’re seeing produc- tissues,” said graduate stu- put. Having twice as many tivity doubling and tripling dent Miles Mesa. active genes means the cell after the plants are cut. Flying farmers Fewer producers taking to the air as ag aviation READER’S PHOTO demand soars 28 Editorials 4 Grain Markets 11 Comments 5 Weather Vane 16 What’s Up 8 Classifieds 33 Livestock Markets 10 Sudoku 38 ONn Li E & MoBiLE Visit www.manitobacooperator.ca for daily news and features and our digital edition. (Click on “Digital Edition” in the top right corner.) 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