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Ottawa Slow On Listeria Response Proposals

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“It’s not a question of hiring people off the street. We need competent, qualified people in food safety. And we have to provide them with training on our procedures.” Aconsumers’ group and the union that represents federal meat inspectors says Ottawa is starving the Canadian Food Inspection Agency of funds rather than getting on with
Cereals, News

Supreme Court Upholds Wheat Board Gag Order

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“We think there’s an important principle of farmer control at stake.” – LARRY HILL, CWB The Canadian Wheat Board has lost its final effort to overturn a federally imposed gag order on promoting its sales monopoly. The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear a CWB appeal against a lower court ruling to leave
Cereals, News

Wheat Growers’ Group Formed To Protest CWB

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“There was absolutely no reason to have faith in the wheat board.” – WALLY NELSON The way Wally Nelson tells it, it all began in early December 1969 when a farmer named John Wood came to his John Deere dealership to apologize for not being able to pay his bill. There’d been a decent crop
Cereals, Crops

CWB On WTO Block

The upcoming World Trade Organization (WTO) talks, scheduled for Geneva this week, are targeting the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) single desk, warns the National Farmers Union (NFU). The WTO negotiations are expected to be based on a draft text that would eliminate western Canadian farmers’ single-desk marketing system for wheat and barley by 2013. Under
Opinion

Stephen Harper Abandons Canada’s Hog Farmers

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On Aug. 15, Gerry Ritz, Stephen Harper’s minister of agriculture, abandoned Canada’s hog farmers. After months of pleading for help, with a $3.2-billion sector at stake, the Harper government announced a loan program that only the most viable operations would consider, and a small amount to exit farmers out of the sector. Employing tens of
Livestock

No Escape For Government Bodies In Listeria Report

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Health Canada, the Public Health Agency and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency have all been cited for contributing to a breakdown in the food inspection system during last summer’s deadly listeria outbreak. To prevent a repeat of it, special investigator Sheila Weatherill proposed 57 recommendations to improve food safety. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said they
Cereals, Opinion

People Before Politics: Harper Has Failed To Deliver

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For the past three years, the Harper government has been criss-crossing the country making announcement after announcement, promise after promise to Canadian farmers. Big commitments were made to help with things like cost of production, to help build processing capacity and to help farmers create practical programs on the ground. Unfor tunately, Stephen Harper and
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Budget Aid To Be Followed By Livestock Aid Meeting

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“We see (slaughter capacity funding) as filling in holes and gaps in packing facilities across the country.” – Agriculture minister Gerry Ritz The progress reports the Liberals have demanded for their support of the Jan. 27 federal budget should help farm groups keep track of how much of the $550 million allocated for agriculture is
Cereals, Opinion

LETTERS – for Jan. 8, 2009

Grain Growers of Canada wish list At this special time of year, the Grain Growers would like to reflect on accomplishments over the past 12 months and look forward to next year. On the positives, we’d like to recognize the Transport Committees of the House and Senate for their quick work in passing Bill C-8
Cereals, Opinion

LETTERS – for Dec. 18, 2008

Protect rural residents from ILOs It was gratifying to read about a recent Supreme Court of Canada ruling whereby companies can be sued for polluting, despite operating within government regulations and that this could have ramifications for agriculture. The report “Polluters liable for excessive annoyances,” by Ron Friesen in the Manitoba Co-operator Dec. 4 also

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