Insights and Stories of Staff

N.B. farmer-owned Dairytown to merge into Agropur

Mar. 27, 2014 at 1:47 pm CDT

A New Brunswick butter and powdered milk processor owned by the province’s dairy producers is set to become Agropur’s latest dairy processing play in Atlantic Canada. Agropur, the major Quebec dairy co-operative whose products include the Natrel, Quebon, Allegro, Olympic and Island Farms brands, announced an agreement in principle Thursday […]

Vancouver truckers reach agreement, return to work

Mar. 27, 2014 at 8:17 am CDT

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CN rips feds’ planned rail interswitching expansion

Mar. 26, 2014 at 7:40 pm CDT

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Saputo to shut two Alta. powdered milk plants

Mar. 26, 2014 at 7:10 pm CDT

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Ottawa tightens rail service agreements, boosts rail switching range

Mar. 26, 2014 at 4:47 pm CDT

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Manitoba eases spring load limits for grain trucks

Mar. 25, 2014 at 6:27 pm CDT

Grain will be an “essential commodity” this year during Manitoba’s spring thaw, for the purposes of trucking grain on the province’s minor highways. The provincial government on Monday announced a “special one-time amendment” to its spring weight restrictions on provincial roads, so as to “enable farmers to be nimble and […]

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Grain firms warn railways swamping ports with grain

Mar. 25, 2014 at 4:50 pm CDT

Canada’s big two railways, under mandatory federal performance targets for grain freight, are now flooding the West Coast and Thunder Bay with grain, the Western Grain Elevator Association warns. Prairie grain elevator companies can handle the 11,000 cars a week the federal government has ordered the railways to move — […]

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B.C. introduces back-to-work law for port truckers

Mar. 25, 2014 at 10:16 am CDT

Legislation to buy Port Metro Vancouver 90 days of labour peace with its unionized container truckers has gone through first reading in British Columbia’s legislature. Provincial Labour Minister Shirley Bond on Monday introduced Bill 25, the Port Metro Vancouver Container Trucking Services Continuation Act, imposing a 90-day “cooling-off” period for […]

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Backlogs at port may short feds’ orders on grain freight: CN

Mar. 24, 2014 at 6:18 pm CDT

Canadian National Railway (CN) reports it’s “regaining fluidity” in its rail network and approaching the federal government’s mandated targets for grain freight, but warns grain flow may soon slow if it piles up at port. CN on Monday said it spotted 4,456 hopper cars for loading at country grain elevators […]

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CWB building new grain capacity in southern Manitoba

Mar. 24, 2014 at 3:25 pm CDT

Having already bought its way into the Prairie grain handling system, the grain firm formerly known as the Canadian Wheat Board is now getting ready to build. CWB, as the Winnipeg grain pooling agency is now called, announced Monday it has already started site work on its first new elevator, […]

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