A sign at the back of a meeting room filled with people promoting the Food, Fuel and Fertilizer summit.

Capitalize on opportunity for change, say business leaders

Trade disruption causes anxiety but also creates the conditions to do things differently

Tracy Robinson sees the opportunity in the current crisis. “You only create change when it’s more difficult not to change than it is to change,” she said. “So I’m excited.”

A variety of rail cars are parked in a rail yard.

Infrastructure plan required post-election

Canada should take advantage of the current trade disruption to chart a diversified growth path

If he were prime minister for a day, Murad Al-Katib would immediately spend $100 billion on trade infrastructure.


A CN train engine is in the foreground while the rest of the train can be seen in the background as it rounds a curve.

Railways eliminate carbon surcharge

Saskatchewan farmers would have paid $80 million this year in carbon tax surcharges

Farmers said they are happy and relieved that Canada’s two major railways have removed their carbon tax surcharges.

A basket of eggs in the barn window at Motherwell Homestead near Abernethy, Sask.

Sask. food safety changes won’t include farm eggs

The province’s health minister said farm eggs can be sold at farmers’ markets after concern they would be caught up in new requirements

Saskatchewan has extended consultation on its food safety regulation amendments after an outcry about egg grading requirements.




Rail workers work on the tracks next to an inland grain terminal.

Grain monitor raises alarm about railway performance

Mark Hemmes of Quorum Corp said railways have to do better, as CN points to new volume records the company set this year

Canadian National Railway announced last week it established two new monthly grain movement records, even as Canada’s grain monitor says railway performance continues to be inconsistent.