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The locks of the Welland Canal, on the St. Lawrence Seaway.
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A wave of optimism in advance of seaway opening

The Great Lakes shipping pipeline will be opening for the season later this month

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Optimism abounds for the 2017 navigation seasons on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway. The seaway will open March 20 followed five days later by the American Soo locks between Lakes Superior and Huron and the 2017 navigation season on the Great Lakes will be fully underway. While the seaway finished down by 3.1
While some are calling on the federal government to nationalize the Port of Churchill, others say no matter who owns the facility, its grain shipping days are done.
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Whither the Port of Churchill?

Amid calls for a new owner or nationalization, some say no matter who owns the facility, 
companies won’t export grain through Canada’s only deepwater, arctic seaport

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Time is running out for the Port of Churchill say its supporters, but according to others it can’t be saved. They say its fate was sealed Aug. 1, 2012, when the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) monopoly died. “It is urgent,” Churchill-Keewatinook Aski MP Niki Ashton said Dec. 15 in an interview after calling for the
Port of Churchill.
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North asks AMM to support Port of Churchill

Resolution asks AMM to lobby to ensure port stays open for 2017 shipping season

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The Association of Manitoba Municipalities wants the province and federal government to make revitalizing the Port of Churchill and ensuring operations of the rail line to the northern town their top priority. The town of Churchill’s mayor and council asked delegates for support, bringing an emergency resolution to last week’s municipal leaders’ convention in Winnipeg.
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)
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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
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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

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