Insights and Stories of Staff

CN, conductors agree to talks, possible arbitration

Mar. 24, 2014 at 4:44 am CDT

Having voted down two negotiated deals in the past six months, unionized conductors, trainmen and yardmen with Canadian National Railway (CN) have agreed to go to binding arbitration with the company if need be. CN on Saturday said the workers have agreed to a “last chance” offer to enter negotiations […]

Another hog virus arrives in Canada, PED tests find

Mar. 21, 2014 at 6:29 pm CDT

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B.C. opens up feral pig hunting

Mar. 21, 2014 at 6:54 am CDT

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CN conductors again reject tentative labour deal

Mar. 21, 2014 at 5:28 am CDT

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Mosaic chief to stay on through treatment for cancer

Mar. 20, 2014 at 6:45 pm CDT

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Pigeon Ponzi scheme nets seven-year sentence

Mar. 20, 2014 at 5:30 pm CDT

Ontario’s Pigeon King has been sentenced to seven years in prison for defrauding farmers in a Ponzi scheme running across Canada and the U.S., according to regional media. Arlan Galbraith, founder of Waterloo-based Pigeon King International (PKI), was sentenced Tuesday by Justice Gerry Taylor in Superior Court in Kitchener, following […]

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Vancouver truckers to be ordered back to work

Mar. 19, 2014 at 8:14 pm CDT

The British Columbia government is set to legislate unionized container truckers serving Port Metro Vancouver back into the cab. The province said Wednesday it would introduce back-to-work legislation as early as Monday (March 24), with a 90-day cooling-off period, for 250 truckers represented by Unifor-Vancouver Container Truckers Association. The work […]

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World conservation ag congress coming to Winnipeg

Mar. 19, 2014 at 2:54 pm CDT

“We are running out of dirt, and it’s no laughing matter.” So says Dr. David Montgomery, professor of earth and space sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, and author of Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations. Montgomery, who sees the recent rise of no-till farming as “the hope for […]

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Man. storage listing for ‘at-risk’ grain near launch

Mar. 19, 2014 at 9:47 am CDT

The Manitoba government expects to have an online service up by the end of this week for farmers rushing to get unbinned grain up off the ground. “Our first priority is getting this grain moving, but secondly, we need to ensure we have ample space should farmers need emergency alternate […]

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Heavy ice to keep eastbound grain landlocked for now

Mar. 18, 2014 at 6:12 pm CDT

Even under federal government pressure to get more Prairie grain moving by rail to Vancouver and Thunder Bay, crops that make it to the latter port aren’t going anywhere this week, shipowners warn. The Canadian Shipowners Association, the Ottawa-based group for Canadian companies with domestically-flagged vessels, warned in a release […]

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