The Collins Bay Institution at Kingston, Ont. includes maximum, medium and minimum security facilities for up to 720 male inmates. (CSC-scc.gc.ca)

Four farmers named to panel on Ontario prison farms

Four eastern Ontario farmers have been named to a new seven-member advisory panel on the “potential reopening” of two federal penitentiary farms at Kingston. Correctional Service Canada (CSC) on Thursday announced the panel members, who are expected to hold their first meeting next month and to “engage with community stakeholders” on the farms’ possible reopening.


Monitor open market, Goodale says

The new open wheat and barley market promised for western Canadian farmers starting Aug. 1 should be monitored by an independent institution so the findings can help guide future policies, says Saskatchewan Liberal MP Ralph Goodale. “Unless you start working on this right now from the beginning and follow it through from Day 1 you

Goodale Critical Of Delays In Rail Service Legislation

Legislation to give grain shippers railway service contracts is taking too long, says Liberal MP Ralph Goodale. This is just not acceptable, Goodale said in an interview Sept. 22. I think the stalling you see… proves the railway lobby is working. The railways are trying desperately to paralyze this whole situation and make it go


Private Member’s Bill Aims To Save Railway Sidings

Aprivate member s bill aimed at saving railway sidings so farmers can use them to load producer cars was introduced in the House of Commons Sept. 21. I think this has pretty broad support among those people who represent rural constituencies, says Liberal MP Ralph Goodale, who is behind bill C-28, an act to amend