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CN Rail says it’s fully meeting grain shipper demand

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Most weeks this crop year CN Rail has delivered more than 90 per cent of the cars grain companies ordered, according to Ag Transport Coalition’s (ATC) weekly reports. That’s pretty good service, says Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevator Association and one of the ATC’s members. David Przednowek, CN Rail’s director of
grain rail cars
Cereals, News

Nitty-gritty details in Bill C-49

The revenue cap stays, but railways can include the cost of new hoppers

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It took a few days of intense review for the Western Grain Elevators Association (WGEA) before giving its blessing to the Transportation Modernization Act. Others were equally meticulous. “Every word does matter, and the order of the words matters,” Greg Cherewyk, Pulse Canada’s chief operating officer, said in an interview. And while Pulse Canada also
Farm groups hope the legislation will continue to allow interswitching, 
the ability of railways to use each other’s tracks.
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New transport bill expected this week

Prairie grain shippers are counting on amendments to the Canada Transportation Act to improve rail service

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The federal government’s long-awaited proposals for improving railway shipping of western grain were expected this week in proposed amendments to the Canada Transportation Act. “An act to amend the Canada Transportation Act and other acts respecting transportation and to make related and consequential amendments to other acts,” was added to the House of Commons notice
Farmers from the Alberta Federation of Agriculture, Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan and Keystone Agricultural Producers toured the Port of Vancouver last week, including Cargill’s grain terminal.
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Western Canada’s publicly owned grain cars need replacing

Who will own the new ones and who will pay for them?

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One thing most farmers and the railways agree on is the current fleet of aging government and publicly owned grain hopper cars soon needs to be replaced. Doug MacDonald, CN’s vice-president of bulk commodities, told representatives from the Alberta Federation of Agriculture (AFA), Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan and Manitoba’s Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) Nov.
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
Editorial: Easy to say, not easy to do
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Easy to say, not easy to do

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Most would agree that the so-called revenue cap on Canada’s two national railways is an imperfect solution to a complicated problem. Officially called the Maximum Revenue Entitlement (MRE), it was implemented as part of a major reform of grain transportation policy by Justice Willard Estey in 2000. It was an alternative to his proposal to
Cereals, Crops, News

Class action against railways considered

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Aproposed class-action suit against Canada’s two major railways over grain freight rates was due Feb. 1 in a Calgary courtroom, where it will be decided whether the suit can proceed on all Prairie farmers’ behalf. In a letter to potential “class” members, Regina lawyer Tony Merchant said the certification hearing in Alberta Court of Queen’s
Crops

Grain Company Complaint Against CN Dismissed

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The Canadian Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n Agency has dismissed a level-of-service complaint against CN by Western Grain Trade Ltd. In a decision announced Feb. 11, the CTA said CN did the best it could in meeting the company’s need for cars in restricted plant facilities in
Opinion

Open Letter To Transport Minister

I am writing to express the profound consternation all farmers have with CN Rail’s announcement of the delisting, or closing, of numerous producer car loading sites in Western Canada. Producer car loading sites are an absolute necessity if farmers are going to be able to exercise their hard-fought right to load rail cars themselves. If

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