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Grain groups rip lawmakers over derailed transport bill

Several farm groups say partisan haggling has again derailed federal legislation they hoped would help improve rail freight service for the grain sector this year. Bill C-49, the Transportation Modernization Act, passed third reading in the Senate and was returned to the House of Commons with proposed amendments on March 29 — and went back

Crops

Two unions set to strike Saturday at CP

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 18, 2018

Unions representing engineers, conductors and signal maintainers on Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) have served formal notice to strike starting Saturday. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), which represents about 3,000 CP engineers and conductors, served strike notice late Tuesday, as did System Council No. 11 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), representing over

Crops

Recreational marijuana sales in Canada face fresh delays

By GFM Network News February 16, 2018

Ottawa | Reuters — The sale of legalized recreational marijuana in Canada, which has already been pushed back once beyond the planned July start date, is set to be delayed even further, government officials said Thursday. The ruling Liberals are sparring with the upper Senate chamber, where a draft law is currently under review. Critics

Opinion

Opinion: The anti-science of ‘sound science’

By Alan Guebert January 16, 2018

For more than 20 years, farm and ranch groups, Congress, and Big Agbiz have used the phrase “sound science” like a sharp shovel to bury or undermine agricultural policy. Ask them to define “sound science,” however, and you’ll get no clear explanation. That’s because “sound science” is a political weapon, not a branch of knowledge.

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Deal reached to avert CN strike, union head says

By Allison Lampert, David Ljunggren, GFM Network News May 29, 2017

Montreal/Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian National Railway and a union representing 3,000 conductors on Monday reached an agreement in principle ahead of a looming strike deadline at Canada’s largest railroad, said a top union official. The union had set a strike deadline of Tuesday at 4 a.m. ET after the railroad announced new work rules

Fourth of July celebrations at Vermont’s State House in Montpelier. (Legislature.vermont.gov)

Crops

Quebec again ponders mandatory GMO labelling

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 6, 2016

Quebec’s agriculture minister has telegraphed an interest in following the lead of a next-door neighbour to require mandatory labelling for foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The province’s governing Liberals previously called for such a system, making a GMO label law part of their election platform back in 2003, but have been quiet about their

Livestock, News

COOL decision down to the fine points

An arbitration panel heard widely different interpretations of how much damage was done

By Alex Binkley September 24, 2015

Canada has made its final pitch to a World Trade Organization panel on the billions of dollars of damage beef and pork producers say they have suffered due to the U.S. country-of-origin labelling (COOL) program. Now it awaits a decision on what level of retaliatory tariffs it can impose on imports of American food and

Cereals, News

CGC finds consensus for producer protection, licensing of feed mills

The next step is to prepare licensing and farmer-protection regulations for feed mills and then consult again

By Allan Dawson June 19, 2015

The majority of grain industry respondents to a recent Canadian Grain Commission consultation wants western Canadian feed mills to be licensed and required to post security covering grain purchased from farmers. “Most stakeholders agreed there should be some kind of licensing of facilities to provide some kind of producer protection,” Rémi Gosselin, manager of CGC

Canadian crop outlook has improved since January says FCC

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Wheat, durum cash prices lower on the week

Trump says US will sell ‘so much’ beef to Australia

Daily Network News

Canadian crop outlook has improved since January says FCC

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Wheat, durum cash prices lower on the week

Trump says US will sell ‘so much’ beef to Australia

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Grain groups rip lawmakers over derailed transport bill

Two unions set to strike Saturday at CP

Recreational marijuana sales in Canada face fresh delays

Opinion: The anti-science of ‘sound science’

Deal reached to avert CN strike, union head says

Quebec again ponders mandatory GMO labelling

COOL decision down to the fine points

CGC finds consensus for producer protection, licensing of feed mills

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