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Livestock, Opinion

Editorial: COOL fight not over yet

U.S. legislators will soon vote to repeal, but how it will all play out remains to be clear

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The WTO has made its final-final decision in Canada’s favour on U.S. labelling laws. It now appears that U.S. legislators in the House of Representatives will vote next month on a bill to repeal it. But Canada’s COOL fight isn’t over. Support for repealing the legislation is less secure from the U.S. Senate where the
The Jacksons

A bit ‘o Irish and politics

The Jacksons, from the Dec.11, 2014 issue of the Manitoba Co-operator

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Andrew Jackson sat with his back to the window of the café on Main Street, waiting. Outside a cold winter wind whipped the snow across the pavement and piled it up in shallow drifts on the sidewalk. Storekeepers emerged periodically from their doorways to clear the walk, piling the snow up against the curbs, but
Editorial: Cell companies bad, railways good
Cereals, Opinion

Editorial: Cell companies bad, railways good

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Just as there’s good stress and bad stress, there’s good excitement and bad excitement. There’s the good excitement you get when watching the Grey Cup, especially if you’re a Riders fan. Then there’s the other kind of excitement (as in riled up) you got watching this year’s Grey Cup commercials about how the Harper government
Ted Menzies is also the former president of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers and the Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance.
Cereals, Crops

Menzies says he won’t lobby former government colleagues

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New CropLife head says he will focus on dealing with other countries, farm groups and the food industry

Former cabinet minister Ted Menzies brushes off accusations that he intends to use his political connections as president and CEO of CropLife Canada to influence former colleagues. Menzies recently resigned as MP for the southern Alberta riding of McLeod to succeed Lorne Hepworth, a former Saskatchewan agriculture minister, who retires next year. CropLife represents Canada’s
Crops

Railway legislation passes, more squabbling down the track

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The Senate has given final approval to legislation to require the freight railways to offer service agreements to their customers, but squabbling over details of the law is expected to continue. To shippers, the law didn’t go far enough while the railways warned it would interfere with normal commercial relationships. Transport Canada will now have
Beef cattle, Hogs, Opinion

Trouble on the trade front

The federal government has issued a long list of U.S. imports that could be targeted for retaliation if Canada’s biggest trading partner fails to comply with the WTO ruling on its country-of-origin labelling rules. That list of 40 or so items includes live cattle and pigs, meat products, corn, processed foods containing spent fowl, chocolate,
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

The need for speed

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When the Harper government gutted Canada’s environmental review legislation as part of the 2012 omnibus budget, the public was told it was because the process was inefficient, slow and standing in the way of economic development. But as researchers at the University of Toronto noted, federal officials “provided no evidence apart from the testimony of
Opinion

Letters, April 11, 2013

One super farm group needed? Danny Penner has been advocating for one “super” farm group to speak with one voice. That idea has been around for as long as there have been farmers. It’s easy to feel disassociated with the groups that are left, such as the commodity groups and the astroturf wheat-barley growers, Grain
Cereals, Opinion

Letters, Feb. 14, 2013

Standing up for farmers? The Harper government has been using the phrase “Standing up for farmers” when it makes agricultural announcements. But I think “sticking it to farmers” is more realistic. A case in point is the firing of Adrian Measner CEO of the farmer-controlled Canadian Wheat Board in 2006. Although farmers paid for Mr.
News

Europe FTA ignored in Harper government statements

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The year-end target for striking a free trade deal with Europe has come and gone — with no sign of concern from Prime Minister Stephen Harper or his trade minister. Although he talked about several pro-trade initiatives in his year-end statement, Harper made no mention of the Canada-Europe deal and Trade Minister Ed Fast mentioned

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