On Feb. 22, the Canadian Parliament approved Michael Chong’s opposition motion accusing China of genocide in its western Xinjiang province. Canadian farmers do not want to go down this road. The problem is not just that charges of genocide and forced labour in Xinjiang have scant proof to back them up. The Xinjiang issue is […] Read more
Stories by Paul Sinclair
Container crisis not just about ships
Recent Western Producer reporting about dysfunctional Pacific Northwest ports made clear an often overlooked fact: producers gain access to empty containers at the whim of ocean carriers, not railways. But before we can hold these behemoths to account, we have some homework to do. Three ongoing transformations in the shipping industry will affect producers’ access […] Read more
Why farmers must support the GTH
On July 25, the Saskatchewan government announced it was considering selling the Global Transportation Hub. The hub was just a business the government should never have been involved in, the official explanation went. A profound silence from the agricultural community suggests farmers agree with this assessment. For agricultural producers, the Global Transportation Hub opportunity was […] Read more
