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File photo of a CN locomotive in Winnipeg. (Dave Bedard photo)

Canadian National Railway receives arbitrator’s decision for new agreement

By Reuters April 7, 2025

Reading Time: < 1 minute Canadian National Railway said on Monday it had received an arbitrator's decision regarding the terms of its new collective agreement with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), which represents about 6,000 rail workers.

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No rail interruptions expected as CN signals, communications workers prepare to strike

By Geralyn Wichers January 27, 2025

Reading Time: < 1 minute Canadian National Railway says there will be no impact on its operations if signals and communications workers walk off the job on Tuesday.

Unifor says it stopped a CN train at a crossing Winnipeg near where members were demonstrating in solidarity with striking workers in Halifax. Photo: Unifor

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CN train stopped by demonstrators in Winnipeg, union says

By Geralyn Wichers March 15, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes A union representing striking workers in Halifax said it stopped a CN train in Winnipeg yesterday as part of escalations against that company.

Signage outside an IBEW office in Winnipeg. (File photo by Dave Bedard)

Crops, Machinery

Arbitration leads to deal for CN signals staff

IBEW held 17-day strike in summer

By Dave Bedard October 19, 2022

Reading Time: < 1 minute Canadian National Railway (CN) has labour peace with its signals and communications workers through to the end of 2024 coming out of binding arbitration. The 750-odd workers, represented by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) System Council 11, had agreed to take their dispute with CN to arbitration in early July, ending a 17-day strike. […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

CN signals staff to return to work Wednesday

IBEW, railway to go to binding arbitration

By Dave Bedard July 5, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes Signals and communications workers at Canadian National Railway (CN) are set to end their 17-day strike and return to work Wednesday morning. CN, in a statement Monday, said the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) System Council 11, which represents about 750 of the company’s employees across the country, had agreed to take its labour […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Teamsters seek charges against CP to cap working hours

By Allison Lampert, Anna Mehler Paperny December 20, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutes Montreal/Toronto | Reuters — A union is taking the unusual step of pursuing contempt of court charges against Canada’s second-largest railroad, in a previously unreported case that escalates the debate over working hours for railroad employees, according to two sources and legal documents. The Teamsters union argued in court filings that Canadian Pacific Railway should […] Read more

Crops

CN reports grain movement back at pre-strike pace

By Allan Dawson December 13, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian National Railway’s grain shipping is back to its pre-strike pace, the railway says. “By the second week of December (week 19), CN returned to shipping at peak levels, as well as taking on all customer hopper demand for the second and third weeks of December,” Montreal-based CN said in a release Thursday. “Despite a […] Read more

A barley crop south of Ethelton, Sask. on July 30, 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)

Barley, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Feed weekly outlook: Purchases delayed as prices steady, supplies ample

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm December 5, 2019

Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — With good supplies available, don’t expect to see much movement in prices for feed wheat and barley over the next several months, according to Nelson Neumann. Neumann, senior trader for Agfinity at Stony Plain, Alta., said barley currently was around $223 per tonne Lethbridge delivered and wheat was a little back at $220 […] Read more

CBOT December 2019 oats with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soy, corn fall as hopes fade for China trade deal this year

By Julie Ingwersen November 20, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures fell to a two-month low and soybean futures hit a seven-week low on Wednesday on fading expectations for a U.S.-China trade deal before the end of the year, analysts said. Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures closed modestly higher on technical buying and concerns about this week’s decline […] Read more

Marie-Claude Bibeau speaks at a Montreal convention on March 7, 2019. Photo: Allan Dawson/File

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Bibeau remains federal agriculture minister in shuffle

By D.C. Fraser November 20, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutes Updated, Nov. 21— Quebec MP Marie-Claude Bibeau retains her role as federal minister of agriculture and agri-food in Wednesday’s cabinet shake-up for the Liberals’ minority government. Bibeau will join her colleagues — including returning Transport Minister Marc Garneau and new Labour Minister Filomena Tassi, a Hamilton MP and former minister for seniors — in having […] Read more

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Bayer’s proposed Roundup settlement faces first signs of pushback in court

CBOT Weekly: Several unknowns that could affect commodity prices

Incoming Canadian Cattle Association CEO embraces winds of change

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