Marketing mess

by on Sep 11, 2015 in Articles and Letters

Western Producer Bernard Von Tettenborn; Round Hill, Alta The prairie wheat marketing system is a mess that Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative government created. Harper, while he was head of the National Citizens Coalition, stated that the old Canadian Wheat Board had to go.  The multinationals must have reached him, as he never raised a kernel of wheat and tried to transport it...

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Harper Government Trashes Another Federal Science Library

by on Aug 21, 2015 in Articles and Letters

From the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada OTTAWA, August 21, 2015 – Canadians hoping the Harper government’s “war on science” is at last ended – or at least put on hold for the period of the federal election campaign – will be saddened to learn of the destruction this week of yet another federal science library, this time at the Agriculture and Agri-Food...

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We are becoming strangers in our own land

by on Apr 17, 2015 in Articles and Letters

Takeover of Canadian Wheat Board – We are becoming strangers in our own land By Peter Ewart Thursday, April 16, 2015 @ 3:55 AM 250 News Once there was a Canadian Wheat Board that was truly Canadian-owned and based, and whose job was to market the grain of Canadian farmers, especially in the West. Since coming to power in 2006, the Harper government has waged an all-out war on the Wheat Board as...

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Ritz locks farmers out, hands CWB keys to Bunge and Saudi king’s fund

by on Apr 15, 2015 in Articles and Letters

National Farmers Union News Release, April 15 , 2015 “Today Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced that G3, a joint venture owned by two foreign corporations, Bunge and the Saudi investment company SALIC, is the beneficiary of CWB privatization. With this, the Conservative government has accomplished the biggest transfer of wealth away from farmers in the history of Canada,” said Jan...

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Dismantling Canadian Wheat

by on Apr 8, 2015 in Articles and Letters

by:  David Gehl David Gehl has served as officer-in-charge and head of the Seed Increase Unit at Ag Canada’s Experimental Farm for the past 25 years. At the Indian Head, Saskatchewan farm, he’s overseen the production of more than 1,000 breeder plots and obtained more than 600 Breeder Seed Crop Certificates for varieties of more than three dozen crop kinds. The varieties propogated and...

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Trade deals no impediment to restoring CWB

by on Mar 16, 2015 in Articles and Letters

By Ken Larsen, The Starphoenix March 5, 2015 Larsen is a farmer in Benalto, Alta., and a member of the board of the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board, which is engaged in a classaction lawsuit over changes to the structure of the CWB. Ottawa has killed the Canadian Wheat Board several times over the last 120 years, and each time western farmers have successfully demanded its return. The length...

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