Another spending scandal in Saskatchewan
by admin on May 28, 2013 in Articles and Letters
By Bruce Johnstone, The Leader-Post May 24, 2013 While all eyes are focused on the Senate expense scandal, another Harper government scandal is slowly unfolding right here in Saskatchewan. The scandal, if you will, is the wholesale dismantling of government institutions, including Canadian Wheat Board, Canadian Grain Commission, Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration, Community Pasture...
Read MoreThree By-elections
In the three Federal by-elections just concluded, Elections Canada reports that in two of them, the majority voted against the person who won. Two of the so-called winners were supported by only 37% of the voters because of vote splitting among the other candidates. If you believe representative democracy means majority rule, this amounts to the counterfeit of democracy. Farmers who ran the...
Read MoreFarmers Celebrate International Women’s Day
(March 8, 2012) Today is when we recognize and celebrate women’s economic, political, and social achievements. In Canada we often forget that until 1929 women were not even considered “persons” under our laws. Too few remember how women overcame this abomination in our legal system. It all started with the grain farmers of western Canada. For over 30 years, since the 1890s they...
Read MoreFocus on the here and now
by admin on Mar 8, 2012 in News Release
(Regina, March 8, 2012) The Canadian Wheat Board Alliance is reminding farmers to focus on current issues at the Wheat Board meetings being held this month instead of being side-tracked by speculation about future agreements Ritz’s appointees now running the CWB may make if the illegal end of the single desk proceeds on August 1, 2012. “Farmers should remember that Minister Ritz seized...
Read MoreFormer Directors for CWB Democracy Disappointed But Determined
by admin on Feb 27, 2012 in News Release
(CWB Region, February 27, 2012) The farmer-elected Directors of the Canadian Wheat Board are very disappointed that a recent Manitoba Queen’s Bench judgement took six weeks to reject an injunction protecting farmers’ right to vote on fundamental changes to the Canadian Wheat Board. These changes were implemented by Ottawa in defiance of a December 2011 Federal Court ruling by Justice...
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