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Regulating Railways Finds Rare Consensus

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The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) and Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) can agree on one thing – more regulation is needed to improve railway service for farm commodities. The Grain Growers of Canada, Canadian Canola Growers Association and the Western Grain Elevators Association say the same. All have sent that message to a panel
Cereals, News

Court Overturns Shipper Complaint Against CN

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Canadian National Railway (CN) did not breach its level-of-service obligations to the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) and four other grain companies in the 2007- 08 crop year the Federal Appeal Court said in its ruling Sept. 9. Although the ruling overturns the Canadian Transportation Agency’s (CTA) decision in favour of the complaint launched in 2008
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CTA Questions Freight Rate Legality – for Sep. 2, 2010

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OTTAWA The Canadian Transportation Agency plans to delve into railway freight charges known as limited distribution tariffs (LDTs). It hopes to render an opinion on them by next February. The issue is whether LDTs “reflect an agreement between the parties such that they can properly be viewed as contracts between the parties or if they
Cereals, Opinion

An Appeal To The Prime Minister – for Aug. 12, 2010

Groups representing Prairie farmers have appealed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to do something about excessive railway profits at the expense of farmers. This is the letter they sent June 29. We, the undersigned, call on the Government of Canada to immediately undertake a full costing review of the railway revenue cap on grain transportation.
Cereals, Opinion

An Appeal To The Prime Minister – for Aug. 12, 2010

Groups representing Prairie farmers have appealed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to do something about excessive railway profits at the expense of farmers. This is the letter they sent June 29. We, the undersigned, call on the Government of Canada to immediately undertake a full costing review of the railway revenue cap on grain transportation.
Cereals, Opinion

Demand A Costing Review Of Railway Grain Transportation

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Disbelief. Followed by frustration and, we hope, the desire to do something about it. That is response many western grain farmers are likely to feel upon receiving news that they may have greatly overpaid the railway companies to ship their product. Railway earnings for handling grain are the focus of a new study by respected
Opinion

This Is Efficiency?

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We’ve all heard tales of the inefficiencies that have plagued centrally planned economies in far off places. The compounding effects – sluggish supply chains, lower productivity, missed delivery targets and people who could be working standing around with nothing to do – eventually drag the economy so deeply into an abyss, it takes a revolution
Cereals, News

More Balanced Railway-Customer Relationship Sought

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“It is not reasonable to expect any operation to function competitively when vital transportation fails to arrive one in five times.” – WESTERN CANADIAN SHIPPERS’ COALITION The federal rail freight review panel made it clear last fall that it wanted final submissions from the railways and shippers to contain solutions and not just rehash old

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