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Opinion: The Great Canadian Grain Robbery

If you can’t identify the problem then you can’t provide a solution

By Ken Sigurdson May 7, 2018

Allan Dawson, in the April 12 edition (Putting a price tag on the grain backlog), continues to defend a false narrative of ‘blame the railways.’ The information provided by Ken Larsen in his National Farmer’s Union op-ed on March 22 was confirmed by a highly respected journalist for the Western Producer, Brian Cross, who noted

Crops

Red pens come out for postmortem report on CWB era

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 16, 2016

A researcher working for a group calling for the return of single desk marketing misinterpreted data in former Canadian Wheat Board annual reports to conclude the board paid lower rates for shipping grain. Several sources, including a former Canadian Wheat Board director, say University of Saskatchewan Ph.D. candidate Laura Larsen used an inaccurate comparison in

Crops, Local news

Swan River meeting calls for return of CWB

About 50 farmers supported the resolution

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 22, 2016

A group of Manitoba and Saskatchewan farmers wants the Canadian Wheat Board and its single-desk marketing system reinstated. Organizers of a meeting Feb. 10 in Swan River say 50 farmers attended and unanimously passed a resolution calling for a return to orderly marketing and co-ordinated grain transportation logistics. The resolution says loss of the board

Cereals, Opinion

Editorial: The (not so) great farm smackdown

By Laura Rance-Unger February 9, 2015

If you’ve ever watched “smackdown” wrestling on television, you have to admit it’s entertaining, in a perverse sort of way, watching those muscle-bound burly sorts strutting around pounding their chests like apes and shouting insults. Even when they are throwing punches or tossing each other out of the ring, it’s pretty obvious that it’s all

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

Single-desk supporters appeal to Supreme Court

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 10, 2012

The group Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board is seeking leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada regarding a Federal Court of Appeal ruling overturning a Dec. 6, 2011 ruling by Federal Justice Campbell. It will be joined in its bid to challenge the federal government’s decision to end the CWB’s single desk

Cereals, Crops, News

Court rules against ex-wheat board directors

By Dave Bedard March 14, 2012

Former Canadian Wheat Board directors may appeal a Manitoba’s Court of Queens Bench ruling that rejected their bid to delay implementation of the federal legislation removing the board’s monopoly as of Aug. 1. “We think there are a number of areas where the judge erred and we’re considering an appeal,” Bill Toews, one of the

Cereals, Crops, News

FCWB launches $17-billion class-action lawsuit

By Allan Dawson March 5, 2012

The wheat board’s single desk must stay or western farmers should get $17 billion in compensation for its loss, says a class-action lawsuit launched Feb. 15 against the federal government by four farmers with the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB). It’s the latest salvo in the fight against the Marketing Freedom for Grain

Cereals, News

Legal fights over CWB’s future not going away

By Bruce Johnstone January 27, 2012

According to Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, it’s all over but the crying for supporters of the Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk. “It’s a done deal, folks,’’ Ritz told delegates at the Western Canadian Wheat Growers convention in Moose Jaw recently, referring to the legislation to eliminate the CWB’s monopoly over wheat and barley exports Aug.

Cereals, News

Ritz Thirsty For Barley Freedom Beer

By Allan Dawson November 10, 2011

When legislation Bill C-18 passes to kill the wheat board s monopoly, Gerry Ritz says he ll celebrate with a glass of barley freedom beer. It might even be made with malt from Rahr Malting in Alix, Alta., where the minister of agriculture visited Nov. 1 to celebrate the company s announcement to spend $6

Cereals, News

CWB Working On Open-Market Model

By Allan Dawson July 14, 2011

The Canadian Wheat Board is working on a model for converting the single-desk seller of western barley and wheat into an open-market grain company. But for this “new entity” to survive the federal government must make major concessions, including assuming CWB employees’ pension liability, says chair Allen Oberg. “It’s our view that it’s the government’s

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Tag Archives Canadian Wheat Board Alliance

Opinion: The Great Canadian Grain Robbery

Red pens come out for postmortem report on CWB era

Swan River meeting calls for return of CWB

Editorial: The (not so) great farm smackdown

Single-desk supporters appeal to Supreme Court

Court rules against ex-wheat board directors

FCWB launches $17-billion class-action lawsuit

Legal fights over CWB’s future not going away

Ritz Thirsty For Barley Freedom Beer

CWB Working On Open-Market Model

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