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Puerto Rico cries foul over U.S. Congress’s cockfighting ban

Dec. 20, 2019 at 12:52 am CST

San Juan | Reuters — An attempt by the U.S. Congress to ban cockfighting in Puerto Rico has set off a debate about animal cruelty, put thousands of jobs at risk and sparked a possible power struggle between the U.S. territory’s government and Washington. The 500-year-old tradition of cockfighting in […]

Ontario draws new legal lines against on-farm trespass

Dec. 2, 2019 at 8:14 pm CST

By GFM Staff

CN strike drags on, hitting grain exports, fertilizer output

Nov. 25, 2019 at 4:37 pm CST

By Allison Lampert Kelsey Johnson

Union says propane shortfalls may be CN’s own making

Nov. 22, 2019 at 8:45 pm CST

By GFM Staff

Propane shortage looms as CN strike hits third day

Nov. 21, 2019 at 5:19 pm CST

By Kelsey Johnson Rod Nickel

Talks continue toward ending CN strike as factories slow output

Nov. 20, 2019 at 12:48 pm CST

Montreal/Winnipeg | Reuters — Talks to end a strike by thousands of workers at Canada’s biggest railroad, Canadian National Railway, continued on Wednesday, as industrial plants slowed output of products cut off from their markets. About 3,000 unionized workers, including conductors and yardmen, hit picket lines on Tuesday after talks […]

By Allison Lampert Rod Nickel

Elevator operators seek quick end to CN strike

Nov. 19, 2019 at 7:32 pm CST

The Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA) wants grain shipments on Canadian National Railway (CN) to resume as soon as possible. “It has a major impact for every day that we’re not moving grain on CN,” WGEA executive director Wade Sobkowich said in an interview Tuesday. “A federal mediator has been […]

By Allan Dawson

CN conductors on strike

Nov. 19, 2019 at 7:26 am CST

Unionized conductors, trainpersons and yard workers at Canadian National Railway are on strike as of Tuesday morning. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), whose CTY arm represents about 3,000 unionized CN staff, announced late Monday its members would stop work at 12:01 a.m. ET Tuesday. “Unfortunately, we were unable to […]

By GFM Staff

Alberta proposes heavier penalties for on-farm trespassing

Oct. 4, 2019 at 2:56 am CDT

Alberta’s government proposes to discourage future on-farm protests — events in the style of an occupation held early last month at an Alberta Hutterite colony’s turkey farm — on pain of new penalties. Speaking Thursday at the Jumbo Valley colony near Fort Macleod, Premier Jason Kenney, Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer […]

By GFM Staff

Trudeau to meet with Pelosi, McConnell on USMCA

Jun. 17, 2019 at 5:27 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week is set to meet with Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, and U.S. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, in a bid to fast-track passage of a delayed trade deal, two congressional aides said […]

By alexandra-alper Richard Cowan

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