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Liberals Step Up Gun Registry Pressure – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Alex Binkley September 16, 2010

With the Commons heading toward a Sept. 22 shootout over Conservative plans to scrap the long-gun registry, the Liberals are stepping up the pressure to reform it instead. Liberal MP Frank Valeriote of Guelph, one of the party’s leading MPs on the Commons agriculture committee, didn’t mince words objecting to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s unbending

Cereals, Crops

KAP Revisits CWB Voter Policy – for Aug. 19, 2010

By Allan Dawson August 19, 2010

The Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) is rethinking its position on which farmers should get a ballot in Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) director elections. The issue was referred to KAP’s grain and oilseed committee during KAP’s general council meeting here July 22. “We need to revisit this and make sure everybody is comfortable with the position

Opinion

Small Farmers Denied Vote

June 17, 2010

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.

News

In Briefs continued from page 2 – for Mar. 18, 2010

March 18, 2010

Free access: Access to provincial parks will be free again this year, but camping, seasonal rentals and user fees will rise, the province announced last week. Detailed information on campground opening dates and campground rules is available at www.manitobaparks.com,1-800-214-6497 (toll free) or 945-6784 in Winnipeg. Most campgrounds open the weekend before May long weekend. Northern

Cereals, News, Poultry

Same Old For Tories In Throne Speech

By Alex Binkley March 11, 2010

The two months the Harper government spent recal ibrat ing its plans and priorities for Parliament translated into more of the same policies for agriculture and other resource industries. In the throne speech at the start of the new session of Parliament, the government promised “to ensure the freedom of choice for which Western barley

Cereals, News

FCWB Appealing Voters’ List Ruling

By Allan Dawson March 4, 2010

Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB) is appealing a Federal Court decision upholding changes to the CWB’s voters’ list made by Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz in 2008. The coalition of farmers and others in support of the CWB contend Justice James Russell erred on two points in Winnipeg Jan. 29, said FCWB spokesman and

News

Coalition Attacks Prison Farm Closures

By Ron Friesen February 11, 2010

Acampaign against the closing of Canada’s prison farms could signal a new opposition aggressiveness against the Conservative government’s anti-crime agenda when Parliament reconvenes next month. Speakers at a panel discussion last week slammed Ottawa’s plan to shut down Correction Canada’s six prison farms, including the Rockwood Institution at Stony Mountain Penitentiary. The closures reflect the

Cereals, News

Changes Needed To CWB Election Rules

By Allan Dawson February 11, 2010

“Everything this government does is with a view to destroying the wheat board so whether they make changes by opening the act or otherwise their end-game is always the same.” – STEWART WELLS Farmers divided over the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) role can agree on one thing: the rules for electing directors and the role

News, Oilseeds

KAP Refuses To Sanction Ag Ministers

By Ron Friesen February 4, 2010

Discontent with federal and provincial agriculture ministers failed to translate into policy at Keystone Agricultural Producers annual meeting last week. Delegates defeated two separate resolutions criticizing federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Stan Struthers. The first accused Ritz of behaving “in a manner, which is less than mature,

Cereals, News

Supreme Court Upholds Wheat Board Gag Order

By Ron Friesen January 28, 2010

“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

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Tag Archives Politics of Canada

Liberals Step Up Gun Registry Pressure – for Sep. 16, 2010

KAP Revisits CWB Voter Policy – for Aug. 19, 2010

Small Farmers Denied Vote

In Briefs continued from page 2 – for Mar. 18, 2010

Same Old For Tories In Throne Speech

FCWB Appealing Voters’ List Ruling

Coalition Attacks Prison Farm Closures

Changes Needed To CWB Election Rules

KAP Refuses To Sanction Ag Ministers

Supreme Court Upholds Wheat Board Gag Order

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