The third generation wheat grower met with 10 other farmers recently to discuss forming rural patrols and using drones to monitor their land near Rosetown. Beyond the anecdotal — and anecdotes abound among the farmers — there is no hard data on rural crime rates. Harley Dickinson is a sociologist at the University of Saskatchewan who spent a chunk of his childhood in small-town Saskatchewan. Dickinson believes race is the “elephant in the room,” amid all the talk of masked men and gun-toting farmers. Meantime, near Rosetown, Barry Kidd is busy with harvest.

Source: National Post September 27, 2016 23:03 UTC