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RBC Survey Fuels Criticisms Of Railways

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Abusiness survey done by the Royal Bank has found widespread dissatisfaction with the quality of railway freight service in Canada. The survey was released in mid November as the federal government’s Rail Freight Ser vice Panel worked on its final report to Transport Minister Chuck Strahl on how to deal with shipper complaints about rail
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Shippers Call For Better Rail Service

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The Harper government needs to act as quickly as possible to improve rail service or the country’s economic recovery will be in jeopardy, says the Coalition of Rail Shippers. After a day-long, closed-door conference on the Rail Freight Service Panel’s interim report released in October, coalition officials said the report clearly spells out the problems
Cereals, Opinion

Vote For CWB

The time has come when the wheat and barley producers of Western Canada will again be voting if they wish to retain the single desk (the Canadian Wheat Board – CWB) as their marketer or perhaps the majority will vote to turn that function over to the corporate grain trade. When the Harper government came
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Food Safety Review Slowly Getting Underway

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The committee has been struck, but any revamp of food safety regulations is still a ways off. “We’re in early days,” said Anna Romano, executive director of the Food Safety Review Committee at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. The group of government, agriculture and food industry officials has met once and agreed on six themes they
Country Crossroads

Food Strategy Off To A Promising Start – for Aug. 26, 2010

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Buoyed by positive responses from agriculture ministers and the food industry, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture is plowing ahead with the development of its National Food Strategy. The idea for the strategy was first presented to the federal and provincial agriculture ministers during the 2009 CFA round table meeting, says Garnet Etsell, the organization’s first
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Action Plan For Food Industry Could Help Farmers

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An action plan to help the Canadian food industry expand its international presence could pay dividends for Canadian farmers as well, says Jean-Pierre Blackburn, minister of state for agriculture. “The food processing sector can help propel Canada’s economic recovery,” Blackburn told reporters after a meeting with 50 representatives of the food industry. “This is why
Opinion

Small Farmers Denied Vote

Legislation has been introduced to prevent small grain producers (delivering less than 40 tonnes to the CWB) from voting in board elections. MP David Anderson describes this as putting farmers first. The irony is very large farmers who never deliver any board grains to the CWB would still be eligible to receive a voting ballot.
Livestock

Union Can’t Find New Inspectors

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The new workers “must be ghosts, no one can find them, they’re nowhere.” – BOB KINGSTON The wrangling between the Harper government and the union representing food inspectors at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is on again following the presentation in Parliament of a report that says the agency has added 93 inspectors to its
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In Brief… – for May. 20, 2010

Hometown upgrades: This year, 253 rural communities will share $450,000 in provincial Hometown Manitoba grants to launch a variety of outdoor renovation projects that will improve and enhance their local public areas and main streets, Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Stan Struthers says. The Hometown Manitoba program provides annual funding in three categories: Meeting

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