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CN Boss Calls For Collaboration Instead Of Regulation

By Allan Dawson February 24, 2011

CN Rail’s president and CEO Claude Monglace says he has Prime Minister Stephen Harper on side with his view that improving grain shipping requires collaboration not regulation. “Sincerely, we need to move away from the regulatory stance that is dominating the grain-handling system,” Mongeau said Feb. 17 during a speech to the Winnipeg Chamber of

Opinion

Last Train Out Of Town?

By Len Green February 10, 2011

With the fate of a significant portion of the rail line along Highway 2 in southern Manitoba about to be settled, I thought it a good time to question the relevance of what has been a part of our communities and our way of life for over 100 years. The value of this asset is

Country Crossroads

Lover’s Lane?

By Eva Krawchuk February 10, 2011

It was once a bustling railroad that was owned by CP Rail The whistles blew As trains rattled through Hauling livestock, grain and mail. Then grass grew over abandoned tracks and became a walking path Trains no longer pay They’ve had their day Said the men who did the math. I walk that path most

Cereals, News

Revenue Cap Accounting Questioned

By Allan Dawson January 6, 2011

CN and CP won’t face penalties for exceeding their revenue caps in the crop year that ended July 31, even though farmers paid about $6 per tonne above those caps to ship their grain. The railways collectively were $5.4 million or 17 cents a tonne under the Canadian Transportation Agency’s (CTA) revenue cap of almost

Cereals, News

Court Overturns Shipper Complaint Against CN

By Allan Dawson November 11, 2010

Canadian National Railway (CN) did not breach its level-of-service obligations to the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) and four other grain companies in the 2007- 08 crop year the Federal Appeal Court said in its ruling Sept. 9. Although the ruling overturns the Canadian Transportation Agency’s (CTA) decision in favour of the complaint launched in 2008

Cereals, News

Bill To Protect Producer Car Sites

By Allan Dawson November 4, 2010

Saskatchewan MP Ralph Goodale has introduced a private member’s bill that would require railways to give three years’ notice instead of 60 days to scrap a producer car siding. Bill C-586 would amend the Canada Transportation Act so that the process to discontinue a producer car siding is similar to abandoning rail lines. It received

Crops

CN Reaches Contract Deal With Train Crews

October 7, 2010

Canadian National Railway and the union representing 2,700 conductors, trainmen and yard crews reached a tentative deal Oct. 1, averting a possible labour showdown at Canada’s largest rail carrier. The railroad said the agreement was for a three-year contract, but other details of the agreement were not released pending a ratification vote by the workers

News

Railways Don’t Want More Regulation

By Alex Binkley June 24, 2010

The rebounding North American economy is boosting the rail sector as can be seen in the first-quarter profits most railways posted this year but the carriers still have a long way to roll before they reach their potential, industry representatives say. “The indicators for 2010 are optimistic,” says John Gray, vice-president of policy and economics

News

Arbitrator Orders Wage Hikes For CN Engineers

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 1, 2010

Farmers who ship grain by rail can expect another two crop years of labour peace between Canadian National Railway (CN) and its 1,700 locomotive engineers. A federally appointed arbitrator on March 18 ruled that the engineers, represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, will get wage increases of 1.8, 2.4 and 2.6 per cent for

Opinion

Open Letter To Transport Minister

January 7, 2010

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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CN Boss Calls For Collaboration Instead Of Regulation

Last Train Out Of Town?

Lover’s Lane?

Revenue Cap Accounting Questioned

Court Overturns Shipper Complaint Against CN

Bill To Protect Producer Car Sites

CN Reaches Contract Deal With Train Crews

Railways Don’t Want More Regulation

Arbitrator Orders Wage Hikes For CN Engineers

Open Letter To Transport Minister

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