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Tories use ‘hoist motion’ to slow contentious bill passage

By Lorraine Stevenson June 5, 2013

It’s not just seeding operations that are putting talk of municipal amalgamation on hold in rural Manitoba. The Manitoba Conservatives have introduced a “hoist” motion on the NDP’s Bill 33, the Municipal Modernization Act, requiring towns and rural municipalities with under 1,000 permanent residents to submit amalgamation plans by Dec. 1, 2013 to the province.

Livestock, News

Harper keen to strike EU trade deal

March 25, 2013

ottawa / reuters / There are still obstacles to a Canada-European Union free trade deal, say the prime ministers of Canada and France, but both said an agreement could smooth the way for a similar EU deal with Washington. The initial end-2011 timeline to complete the Canada-EU deal has slipped, and a decision from Europe

Beef cattle, Cereals, International news, Livestock, News, Oilseeds

Empty handed but happy in Japan

By Alex Binkley March 16, 2013

While he had nothing new to announce at the end of his fourth trade mission to Japan, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz sounded jubilant in a news conference from Tokyo before he returned to Canada. He and a delegation of commodity groups met key Japanese politicians and business leaders. “We now have a clearer understanding of

Crops, Weather

Ritz is uncomfortable paying for same flood twice

By Shannon VanRaes March 7, 2013

The federal government says it is uncomfortable paying for the same flood twice, following calls for 2012 flood compensation in the Lake Manitoba region. Speaking to Harry Siemens for the blog Siemens Says, federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said, “this is the second claim for the same flood, there was not a second flood, it’s

Cereals, Dairy cattle, Hogs, Opinion

Colourful, but effective

By John Morriss February 28, 2013

Both Alex Binkley and Allan Dawson relate some memories of the accomplishments of the late Eugene Whelan elsewhere in this issue, but we can’t let him leave us without noting one ambition he failed to achieve. Whelan desperately wanted to be minister responsible for the Canadian Wheat Board (never making a secret of it) but

Opinion

Remembering Eugene Whelan

By Allan Dawson February 28, 2013

Ronald Reagan gets credit for winning the cold war with the former Soviet Union, but Eugene Whelan arguably played a role. Whelan was prime minister Pierre Trudeau’s agriculture minister for 12 years beginning in 1972, except for the nine months Joe Clark’s Progressive Conservatives held office in 1979. He died last week at age 88.

Cereals, Opinion

More than met the eye to Whelan

By Alex Binkley February 28, 2013

Eugene Whelan will be remembered mostly for his green Stetson, inability to speak either of Canada’s official languages and his cheerleading for the farm community. Too bad because there was a lot more to the former Liberal agriculture minister, who died just weeks after his Conservative counterpart John Wise. He was a lot politically shrewder

Opinion

Letters, Feb. 28, 2013

February 28, 2013

We welcome readers’ comments on issues that have been covered in the Manitoba Co-operator. In most cases we cannot accept “open” letters or copies of letters which have been sent to several publications. Letters are subject to editing for length or taste. We suggest a maximum of about 300 words. Please forward letters to Manitoba

News

Eugene Whelan dies at 88

February 28, 2013

Funeral services were held Feb. 23 for the man beneath the green Stetson hat who took the helm of Canadian agricultural policy during the Trudeau administration. Eugene Whelan, Canada’s agriculture minister from 1972 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984, died late Feb. 19 at age 88. According to the Windsor Star , Whelan’s death, at

News

Red tape causes farmers to see red

By Alex Binkley February 12, 2013

Whether it’s being asked to fill in a seeding survey during planting season or enduring bureaucratic paper chase to get permission to clean out a ditch, farmers say the regulatory burden is worsening

The blizzard of rules, regulations and forms is getting steadily worse, and farmers are fed up to the gills with red tape, according to a new survey. In fact, filling out paperwork was the No. 1 beef of 79 per cent of farmers it recently surveyed, says the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. “Overregulation, confusing

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs tick down on supply numbers, year-end positioning

U.S. grains: Chicago grains and oilseeds fall as Black Sea, China headlines assessed

Soy trading firms to abandon Amazon protection pact in Brazil

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