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Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew announcing provincial funding of $30 million for the Port of Churchill.

$60 million for Port of Churchill infrastructure

Feds, province provide funding to get the Hudson Bay Railway running again

By Don Norman February 23, 2024

The federal and provincial governments announced a combined $60 million in funding for infrastructure supporting the Port of Churchill. The February 23 announcement saw provincial and federal governments commit $30 million each to the Arctic Gateway Group. The limited partnership owns and operates the Port of Churchill and the Hudson Bay Railway, which connects The

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Is the Port of Churchill finally opening for business?

Manitoba and Canada would benefit enormously from using this gateway to the world

By Lee Harding December 20, 2022

Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson has finally voiced support for more energy exports out of Hudson Bay. That is excellent news because the potential is real and the reasons to refuse are illusory. “We are looking at liquefied natural gas, primarily,” Stefanson told reporters recently. “We know with the energy challenges in Europe, with the horrible

The grain terminal at Churchill is in good shape to resume operations, proponents say.

News

Long term future of Port of Churchill still in doubt

Funding for rail line is more about serving northern communities from the south

By Don Norman August 19, 2022

New funding has breathed new life into Churchill, but few are holding their breath about a return to the golden years of grain shipping from the northern port. “This is going to help keep the railway operating, at least for a while,” said Barry Prentice, professor of supply chain management at the University of Manitoba’s

The operators of the rail line to Churchill say a honeycomb form, seen here empty, then filled with crushed rock, is central to their rehabilitation of the rail line over muskeg.

News

Churchill port on two-year hiatus

Operator says ambitious rail rehabilitation will be key to future success

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 5, 2021

It’s going to be awhile before the next ship is loaded at the northern Manitoba Port of Churchill. About two years, according to Sheldon Affleck, chief executive officer of the Arctic Gateway Group (AGG). The group consists of 29 Indigenous and a dozen non-Indigenous communities that own and operate the 627-mile rail line from The

Markets

Port of Churchill out of commission for two years

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 27, 2021

The sight of grain vessels being loaded at the Port of Churchill in northern Manitoba won’t happen for two years, according to Sheldon Affleck, chief executive officer of the Arctic Gateway Group (AGG). The group consists of 29 Indigenous and a dozen non-Indigenous communities that own and operate the rail line from The Pas to

Other

Rail service to Churchill set to resume as line reopens

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 2, 2018

CNS Canada – After being shut down for 18 months, rail service to Churchill, Man. officially reopened on Nov. 1. The northern Manitoba community and deep water port on Hudson’s Bay lost its only land link to the rest of Canada in May 2017 when flooding and washouts severed the line. Omnitrax, which had owned

Opinion

Opinion: The Great Canadian Grain Robbery

If you can’t identify the problem then you can’t provide a solution

By Ken Sigurdson May 7, 2018

Allan Dawson, in the April 12 edition (Putting a price tag on the grain backlog), continues to defend a false narrative of ‘blame the railways.’ The information provided by Ken Larsen in his National Farmer’s Union op-ed on March 22 was confirmed by a highly respected journalist for the Western Producer, Brian Cross, who noted

Crops

Churchill possibly to return to shipping grain

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News May 4, 2018

CNS Canada — Grain could once again be shipped out of northern Manitoba’s Port of Churchill if all goes according to plan for a new potential ownership group. “The port has got all of the grain handling equipment and simply said, the first thing we want to do is resume that commercial activity,” said Louis

Opinion, Other

Opinion: OmniTrax not only ones that derailed Churchill

There’s plenty of other culprits in this sad story 

By Ian Robson January 15, 2018

For over 100 years, the Port of Churchill on Hudson Bay was the gateway to northern Manitoba and communities in Nunavut. Served by 820 kilometres of railway line from The Pas, it shipped western grain to European markets until the port was stranded, then closed, and the hundreds of remote northern communities along the railway

Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: On a (rail)road to nowhere

By Gord Gilmour November 23, 2017

The Port of Churchill and the rail link to the south has been much in the public eye of late, most recently with word a Toronto financial group is partnering with local First Nations groups to buy the line. The tantalizing promise of Churchill has always been just over the horizon, it would seem. On

Daily Network News

U.S. Supreme Court to hear Bayer’s bid to curb Roundup cases

Canada-China roundup: Producer groups applaud tariff relief; pork left out; mix of criticism and praise from Trump administration

Opinion: Is a closer trade relationship with China a security risk?

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