Reading Time: < 1 minute Federal Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon has intervened in the labour dispute between the railways and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC).
Federal government intervenes to end rail lockout with binding arbitration
Canada’s railways grind to a halt
Reading Time: 2 minutes 12:01 AM EDT on August 22, after negotiations that began last year failed to bring about a resolution to the dispute, CN and CPKC announced at that they would lockout their employees who are members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC). The move affects roughly 9,000 employees at the two companies.
Time runs out for a negotiated settlement for Canada’s railway labour dispute
Reading Time: 3 minutes Deadline for lockout set by Canada's major railways expires just after midnight tonight, and the reality of what that means to the agriculture sector is settling in.
The rail lockout: How did we get here?
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the days since August 9, panic has begun setting in within the agricultural industry. The country has never seen a labour dispute that resulted in a strike or lockout from both of Canada’s rail companies. With harvest ramping up, a suspension of rail services would be disastrous for the industry.
Agriculture groups campaign against rail strike
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pulse Canada has organized a letter writing campaign to push the government to halt the looming labour stoppage at Canada's railways.
Company promises instant plant tissue sample results
Reading Time: 2 minutes ATP Nutrition, which made headlines last year with their Nutriscan portable soil lab, has upgraded the system to scan nutrients in the leaf tissue of plants.
‘Precision’ insurance on offer for farmers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Company says individual insurance breaks coverage into different profiles, even within the same farm, making for a more tailored business risk management option.
From AIM: How do we keep ahead of herbicide resistance?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Proactive thinking and strategies are needed to protect chemical modes of action until new crop protection tools can hit the market, Ag in Motion 2024 attendees hear at Bayer Crop Science panel on herbicide resistance.
Former Manitoba man sues Bayer for causing his cancer
Reading Time: 2 minutes A Calgary man who lived on a farm in Carman, Man., as a child has filed a lawsuit saying chemicals he was exposed to resulted in a cancer diagnosis. The plaintiffs in the case are Kevin Giesbrecht and his common-law spouse, Jennifer McAlpine, who now live in Calgary. According to court documents, Giesbrecht lived on […] Read more
‘Unprecedented’ growth possible for canola demand
Renewable fuels could propel canola demand into the stratosphere: speaker
Reading Time: < 1 minute The biofuels industry could drive canola demand into unheard of territory in the coming decade, according to one industry expert.