Who killed Churchill?

by on Sep 17, 2016 in Articles and Letters

by Eric Sagan (September 17, 2016) Recently Omnitrax the owner of the Port of Churchill said they were closing the port and no grain shipments would be occurring for 2016. How could we have come to this where a private company can dictate to farmers and essentially to the whole Nation that a port outlet would be closed to export because of their financial need? Does anyone consider the benefits...

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CWB testimony found surprising

by on Aug 2, 2016 in Articles and Letters

Yorkton This Week by:  Kyle Korneychuk, Former CWB Director (August 2, 2016) I was surprised reading the recent transcripts of the testimony of Mr. Greg Meredith, AAFC Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy Branch, when he was providing testimony to the House of Commons Finance Committee about the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB).  He described a CWB I did not recognize. As a former member of...

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Churchill layoffs a preventable tragedy

by on Jul 26, 2016 in News Release

(Pelly, Sask., July 26, 2016) “The layoff notices to grain workers and others at the port of Churchill, Manitoba are a tragedy for both the workers and farmers in western Canada,” said  Kyle Korneychuk spokesperson for the Canadian Wheat Board Alliance (CWBA), an independent prairie-wide farm group.  “What is worse is they were entirely preventable.” Korneychuk went on to say: ...

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Robert Roy Atkinson

by on May 20, 2016 in Articles and Letters

Robert Roy Atkinson (CM) Passed away on May 17, 2016, surrounded with the love of his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Roy was a character who loved his family and all things Irish. He was the oldest of ten born on February 17, 1924, to Bob and Elsie Atkinson on the farm his grandfather and grandmother homesteaded in 1906 located north of Springwater, Saskatchewan. As a young...

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CWBA releases new research paper

by on Apr 13, 2016 in News Release

On April 13, 2016 at 10 AM Alberta/Sask. 11 AM Manitoba, the Canadian Wheat Board Alliance released a research paper written by a PhD candidate from the University of Saskatchewan. The paper is titled:  “An evaluation of the present situation for Western Canadian grain farmers within a historical context” The paper provides a convenient outline of times a single-desk wheat marketing agency...

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