Is Farmer Ownership of the CWB another Smokescreen?

by on Oct 24, 2013 in Articles and Letters

By: Dean Allen Harder Manitoba With all the smoke from Ag Minister Ritz, it is getting hard to breathe any truth in here. Now the appointed board of Ritz’s CWB (formerly the Canadian Wheat Board) has finally made a move in this saga known as “a transition towards privatization”.  They say they will give farmers a $5 stake in the “new company” for every tonne of wheat they sell through...

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Poor hospitality

by on Aug 13, 2013 in Articles and Letters

If Wallin showed up unannounced at any farm in Saskatchewan chances are she would be invited in for a cup of coffee. Yet when Saskatchewan farmers were at her office doorstep for three weeks, she would not extend that same courtesy.

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Senator Needs to Go!

by on Jul 4, 2013 in Articles and Letters

by:  Kyle Korneychuk With so much discussion surrounding the state of the Senate, I think part of the focus should center on the personal conduct of the Senators. Specifically the allegations, Senator David Tkachuk, the chair of the Internal Economy leaked confidential information to Senators which his committee was investigating. If this is the case the Prime Minister should have the honesty...

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Another spending scandal in Saskatchewan

by on May 28, 2013 in Articles and Letters

By Bruce Johnstone, The Leader-Post May 24, 2013   While all eyes are focused on the Senate expense scandal, another Harper government scandal is slowly unfolding right here in Saskatchewan. The scandal, if you will, is the wholesale dismantling of government institutions, including Canadian Wheat Board, Canadian Grain Commission, Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration, Community Pasture...

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Butch Harder in Manitoba Ag Hall of Fame

by on Apr 13, 2013 in Articles and Letters

April, 2013:  Congratulations are in order for Wilfred (Butch) Harder of Lowe Farm, Manitoba for his induction into the Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame.  Butch is a farm activist and community builder with few equals. For a number of years his peers elected him to the Advisory Committee of the Canadian Wheat Board.  Butch was a founding Director on the farmer-elected Canadian Wheat Board...

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When gospel becomes reality

by on Mar 6, 2013 in Articles and Letters

Manitoba Cooperator, Feb. 28, 2013 Glenn Tait Meota, Sask. Throughout history belief has often trumped truth.  Galileo, the father of modern science, proved by observing the nearby planets that the earth revolved around the sun.  The church would hear none of it.  Proof was irrelevant, or worse, blasphemous if it upset man’s central place in the universe.  In 1633, Galileo was forced to...

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