# Don Shafer

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Digging In with UFA - Fuel Forecast: What’s Driving Prices and What’s Next?

Please note: This episode was recorded in March 2026. The perspectives and forecasts shared reflect the conditions and information available at the time of recording. Given the rapidly evolving global, political, and market environment, circumstances have changed since this episode was recorded. Fu…

Building The Construction Talent Pipeline

The Government of Canada estimates 700,000 skilled trades workers will retire between 2019 and 2028. This void needs to be filled fast if Canada is going to meet its ambitious housing construction targets. But are enough young people entering the trades, and will they develop their skills fast enou…

Building The Construction Talent Pipeline

The Government of Canada estimates 700,000 skilled trades workers will retire between 2019 and 2028. This void needs to be filled fast if Canada is going to meet its ambitious housing construction targets. But are enough young people entering the trades, and will they develop their skills fast enou…

Trailer: Building The Construction Talent Pipeline

The Government of Canada estimates 700,000 skilled trades workers will retire between 2019 and 2028. This void needs to be filled fast if Canada is going to meet its ambitious housing construction targets. But are enough young people entering the trades, and will they develop their skills fast enou…

Digging In with UFA - Emergency Strychnine Use: A Short‑Term Fix to a Long‑Term Problem

Farmers and ranchers are facing an unprecedented surge in the Richardson Ground Squirrel population with devastating effects to crops, pasture and farmland. The temporary lift of the nationwide ban on Strychnine in parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan has aided in crisis mitigation, but when the ban g…

Hope Dialogue welcomes Don Shafer

This week Jennifer Johnstone, President and CEO of Central City Foundation (Hope Dialogue's title sponsor) joins us to turn the tables on our usual host and interview Canadian broadcasting legend Don Shafer, who was recently awarded a PhD from the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Ju…

Digging In with UFA - The Ground Truth - Soil Health in Agriculture

Soil means everything. Without healthy soil, you have no crop and without a crop you have no product. Though we understand the importance of crop yield and agricultural output, are we paying enough attention to the soil? As larger format operations boom alongside local family farms, we want to dig …

Digging In with UFA - Data Centres and AI Expansion: The Future of Farmland Part 1

In the face of increasing global interest in artificial intelligence, data centres that train and run complex artificial intelligence models are beginning to pop up in rural communities. In this Part 1 of a two-part conversation, David Gerhard and Robert Saik dig into the realities of data centre e…

Digging In with UFA - Data Centres and AI Expansion: The Future of Farmland Part 2

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As we continue our conversation on AI, Data Centres and Agriculture in Western Canada and what AI usage looks like for both the consumer and the farmer, we dig in a little further on resource allocation and consequence. Our guests David Gerhard and Robert Saik look at the realistic fears presented …

Digging In with UFA - Trade Wars and Agriculture

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As the trade war between the United States and Canada continues, it’s time to talk about what is going on, why it’s happening, and what we can do to prepare ourselves for any possible outcome. Joined by guests Al Mussell, Founder and Research Lead for Agri-Food Economic Systems, and Kelvin Heppner,…