The Ostrich of Ottawa
(December 31, 2013) This month Minister Ritz continued to claim western farmers were being frivolous to expect compensation for the assets of the Canadian Wheat Board they bought and paid for. Who does he think he is fooling? Certainly not farmers. It was fifty years ago that the Canadian Wheat Board moved into its new building at 425 Main in downtown Winnipeg. At the time the CWB...
Read MorePotash layoffs caused by loss of single desk
The news that Potash Corporation will be laying off almost twenty percent of its work force comes as no surprise to grain farmers. Like western Canadian grain farmers, Potash Corporation was part of a single desk marketing structure designed to stabilize prices and extract maximum value for the producers through orderly marketing and quality control and assurance. Last year much of that went...
Read MoreOne year after CWB
by admin on Aug 1, 2013 in News Release
NEWS RELEASE One year after CWB, private market fails farmers (Regina, August 1, 2013) “A year after the end of the single desk Canadian Wheat Board it is clear western farmers are no longer receiving the full value for their grain. It is also clear most of the missing value is being taken by the private grain trade,” Bill Gehl, chairperson of the Canadian Wheat Board Alliance remarked on...
Read MorePreserve the CWB library and archives
by admin on Mar 18, 2013 in News Release
(Regina, March 18, 2013) The Canadian Wheat Board Alliance (CWBA) has called on Library and Archives Canada to use its legal authority to catalogue and archive the library holdings, documents, and other artifacts of the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) contained in its downtown Winnipeg office building and its offices in Tokyo, Japan, Beijing, China, Vancouver, and Regina. Bill Gehl, a Regina area...
Read MoreFormer Directors for CWB Democracy Disappointed But Determined
by admin on Feb 27, 2012 in News Release
(CWB Region, February 27, 2012) The farmer-elected Directors of the Canadian Wheat Board are very disappointed that a recent Manitoba Queen’s Bench judgement took six weeks to reject an injunction protecting farmers’ right to vote on fundamental changes to the Canadian Wheat Board. These changes were implemented by Ottawa in defiance of a December 2011 Federal Court ruling by Justice...
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