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Most of farm file’s handlers to return to Commons

Most federal parliamentarians with experience in the agriculture and agri-food portfolio will be back in the House of Commons under a new majority Liberal government. As of Tuesday morning, prime minister-elect Justin Trudeau’s Liberals were elected or leading in 184 of 338 seats, for a decisive majority following Monday’s federal election. Stephen Harper’s Conservatives return

Markets

NDP would not feel bound by Pacific trade deal

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News October 2, 2015

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s main opposition party said Friday that if it won an Oct. 19 election, it would not feel bound by the terms of a major Pacific trade deal the ruling Conservatives are negotiating in the United States. The New Democrats, currently trailing third in the polls, said in a letter to

Opinion

Agriculture should be plank of party platforms: CFA

Three main policy areas political parties need to address

By Cfa Release September 1, 2015

The Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) is calling on political candidates across Canada to show their support in the upcoming federal election for Canada’s farmers and the food system Canadians rely on each day. Canada’s farmers and farm organizations will be reaching out to candidates across the country — in-person meetings, mail-outs, and local events.

Livestock

NDP wave pulls down Alta. Tories, ag minister

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 6, 2015

Alberta’s incumbent agriculture and rural development minister is among the casualties of the provincial New Democrats’ unprecedented majority in Tuesday’s election. Verlyn Olson, the MLA for Wetaskiwin-Camrose since 2008, the province’s ag and rural development minister since 2012, and its acting justice minister for about a week and a half, was downed by NDP candidate

National news

Mixed reaction to sale details: some like it not, some like it sold

Opponents say the lack of farmer control and foreign ownership is offensive while others are glad the deal is done

By Allan Dawson April 23, 2015

The Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB) and National Farmers Union and federal NDP oppose the sale. “This was just another step in the largest transfer of wealth away from farmers in the history of this country,” said FCWB chair Stewart Wells who farms at Swift Current, Sask., and served as an elected wheat

The CWB Marquis, CWB’s new laker vessel, is shown here before leaving China in October last year. (CWB.ca)

Crops, Markets

Opposition seeks Commons debate on CWB sale

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 19, 2015

The federal opposition New Democrats are asking for an emergency debate in the House of Commons on the pending sale of majority control in CWB, the former Canadian Wheat Board. Winnipeg Centre MP Pat Martin, the party’s critic for public works and government services, announced Friday he has written to Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer requesting

The Jacksons

The ‘serious effort’ of losing an election

The Jacksons, from the Feb. 26, 2015 issue of the Manitoba Co-operator

By Rollin Penner February 27, 2015

All I’m saying,” said the stranger who was sitting in the window chair at Andrew’s usual table in the café, “is that I expect it to be like watching the last 30 seconds of the Super Bowl. We’ll be shaking our heads and thinking, ‘Dude, it looks like you lost on purpose!’” Andrew set his

Local news

CWB privatization attracts national attention

The former wheat board responds in ‘open letter,’ while the NFU calls on the western provinces  to buy the board’s assets until farmers can take control

By Allan Dawson December 16, 2014

Maybe it was MP Pat Martin’s question to Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz: “Has the minister lost his freaking mind?” or a recent Globe and Mail editorial, but CWB’s transition to a private grain company is getting lots of attention beyond the farm sector. So much so CWB issued an ‘open letter’ Dec. 5 to explain

Cereals, News

Conservatives Racing To Dec. 5 On CWB Bill

By Alex Binkley November 10, 2011

Few noticed the irony as the Conservatives used their majority to shove its legislation to end the Canadian Wheat Board s marketing monopoly through a special Commons committee in three evenings. The committee met Nov. 1-3 in an ornate chamber, once known as the Reading Room, across the Hall of Honour from the Railway Committee

Cereals, News

Familiar Faces On New Ag Committee

By Alex Binkley June 30, 2011

The Commons agriculture committee will hold its first meeting of the new Parliament June 21 and it’s generally expected Larry Miller will be re-elected chairman. Joining him on the Conservative side will Pierre Lemieux from Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, the parliamentary secretary for agriculture, and Ben Lobb from Huron-Bruce. Randy Hoback from Saskatchewan, LaVar Payne and Brian Storseth

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle sink ahead of semi-annual inventory report

U.S. grains: Chicago wheat futures firm on recent dollar slide, winter weather

Feed Grains Weekly: More consideration being given to U.S. corn

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