Private sector cheerleader lands Ottawa funding
Ritz buys more fairy dust for grain farmers (January 29, 2015) Since the killing of the farmer-controlled Canadian Wheat Board, farmers have lost billions of dollars that have been siphoned into the pockets of the private grain companies – the same companies who have totally bungled organizing quality-assured shipments of wheat and barley to port. There are more and more reports of high-end...
Read MoreLooking back on 2014
(January 6, 2015) 2014 has to rank as the year where everything has gone wrong for Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and his followers. They promised an era of transparency, freedom, competition, profitability, and efficiency for western Canada’s grain farms hitherto never seen. EVOLUTION DENIED What Ritz and his cohorts regarded as stuffy bastions of red tape like the Canadian Wheat Board, the...
Read MoreTales from the elevator driveway
One of the benefits of being involved with the Canadian Wheat Board Alliance and the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board is that I get to talk with a lot of knowledgeable people and I also get to hear very interesting reports from all over the prairies. Here is one from a very reliable friend in southern Alberta. While waiting in a long line up of trucks at a southern Alberta elevator my friend...
Read MoreOttawa has farm groups chasing their own tails
by admin on Oct 14, 2014 in News Release
NEWS RELEASE October 14, 2014 Ottawa has farm groups chasing their own tails with transportation consultations (Pelly, Saskatchewan) Ottawa’s latest consultation on grain transportation appears to have farm groups chasing their own tails while ignoring the real culprits in the grain marketing debacle observed Kyle Korneychuk spokesperson for the non-partisan Canadian Wheat Board...
Read MoreSupreme Court rules in favour of shippers
but farmers still captive (July 22, 2014) On the face of it the recent Supreme Court of Canada ruling that shippers have the right to appeal to the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) on things like fuel surcharges imposed by railways on existing contracts might seem like good news for farmers. An Ottawa based transportation lawyer is quoted as saying the decision upholds the 2008 Canada...
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