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CN gets rough ride at Harvest Gala
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CN gets rough ride at Harvest Gala

Canadian National Railway promises producers that it is ready to move this year’s bumper grain crop, 
won’t reacquire Churchill line and port

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The Canadian National Railway has no intention of buying OmniTrax’s defunct route or working to reopen the Port of Churchill, despite calls from some Manitoba producers. “We didn’t close the Port of Churchill, somebody else did,” said Sean Finn, CN’s executive vice-president of corporate services and chief legal officer. “We don’t think it’s a viable network
Comment: Port of Churchill is worth saving
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Comment: Port of Churchill is worth saving

Public ownership may be the best and only answer to preserve this national asset

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Most of us take for granted that the majority of our roads and highways is publicly funded and built at cost in order to serve the overall public good. There is no clamour asking why those roads are not being given away to private companies to let road barons profit from them. For good reason!
Dan Mazier, president of Keystone Agricultural Producers.
Cereals, Local news

KAP wants action to get grain moving through Churchill this year

Dan Mazier says contracts have been made and not meeting them sends the wrong message 
about Canada as a grain supplier

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Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) president Dan Mazier is dismayed by delays in reopening the Port of Churchill to export grain this year. “I will put this right at the feet of the federal government — either the transport minister or the agriculture minister,” Mazier said in an interview Aug. 6. “There are (grain) contracts out
(CNS Canada file photo by Jade Markus)
Crops

Churchill layoffs in effect, uncertainties remain

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CNS Canada — Layoffs from Manitoba’s Port of Churchill are now in effect, but questions remain for those formerly employed by the port, the future of the town and the dynamics of Canadian grain handling. Answers to those questions aren’t coming from OmniTrax, the Denver-based railway that operates the port, as company officials have remained
port of churchill
Cereals, Comment

Analysis: Canada needs Churchill, but do grain farmers?

The port and bay line are vital to the northern economy, but so little grain moves the impact 
on the grain sector would be minimal

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Canada’s grain industry doesn’t need the Port of Churchill, or its railway — but Canada does. Both are important to Canadian sovereignty in the North and are vital to the economies of Churchill and other northern communities. From a farmer’s perspective the more shipping options available the better. But if Churchill — Canada’s only northern
NDP Leader Greg Selinger is facing a lawsuit from OmniTrax Canada.
Crops

OmniTrax alleges non-disclosure violation by premier and senior minister

The company alleges the unapproved disclosures were made to an accounting firm 
and First Nation government

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As the province headed to the polls the Winnipeg Free Press was reporting NDP Leader Greg Selinger, senior cabinet minister, Steve Ashton and the Manitoba government are being sued by OmniTrax Canada. Selinger and Ashton, the province’s infrastructure and transportation minister, are accused of breaching a non-disclosure agreement in relation to the proposed deal to

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