Will farmers share in Dreyfus win over railway?
(February 4, 2019) A couple of weeks ago there was a small news story about Louis Dreyfus successfully suing CN rail for failing to provide enough grain cars to its elevators. CN trotted out the usual excuses for being tardy: it gets cold in the winter, there was a lot of grain to ship, and they have other customers. It must be easy being a railway lawyer when it is just cut and paste from...
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(October 8, 2013) Now that the Canadian Wheat Board is gone, how long will it be before the lights are turned off for export grain handling from Canadian ports? It may be sooner than many think. Some years ago, when Lorne Hehn was the chief commissioner of the Canadian Wheat Board he examined alternative ways to get CWB grain to international markets. Moving grain across the prairies and over...
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