2000

December 2000 Releases

December 16, 2000:

Low 'Voter Turnout' Threatens CWB

December 15, 2000:

NFU Asks Minister Goodale To Investigate
CWB Elections And Report To Farmers

December 14, 2000:

Factory Hog Farms In Sask. To Impact Manitoba Water Quality: NFU Calls For Enviromental Assessment

December 12, 2000:

Alberta Citizens Fight Hog Barns And Their Own Government All The Way To The Court Of Appeal

November 2000 Releases

November 23, 2000:

CWB Opponents Use Deception And Secrecy

November 20, 2000:

Howard Hilstrom And The Reform/Alliance: A Long History Of Not Listening To Farmers Continues

November 16, 2000:

Chretien And Goodale Meet With Farmers

November 14, 2000:

AAFC Admits Lowest Wheat Supplies In 30 Years

October 2000 Releases

October 19, 2000:

Overwhelming Opposition To Taiwan Sugar Hog Mega-Barn

October 4, 2000:

World's Farmers Gather in India

October 2, 2000:

Agreement On Internal Trade Negotiations
Indicate Free Trade 'Business As Usual'

September 2000 Releases

September 26, 2000:

Deregulation: Wringing Costs Out of the System?

September 22, 2000:

Sask. Pool Under Siege by the Same Global Forces Ravaging Family Farms

September 19, 2000:

So Much For Competition

September 15, 2000:

Ontario Livestock Standards Must Protect Water, Soil, and People

September 12, 2000:

World Wheat Supply to Hit 40 Year Low!

September 7, 2000:

Scientists Vindicated and Food Safety Protected

August 2000 Releases

August 15, 2000:

NFU Proposes Solutions to Farm Income Crisis

August 2, 2000:

Alberta Net Farm Income At Depression Levels Because Of Deregulation

July 2000 Releases

July 28, 2000:

Saskatchewan Citizens Concerned About Hemispheric Trade Agreement

July 25, 2000:

Farm Income Crisis in it's Third Year

July 15, 2000:

National Farmers Union "On the Leading Edge"

June 2000 Releases

June 1, 2000:

Bill C-34's Gift To The Railways:
$1.3 Billion Over The Next Ten Years

May 2000 Releases

May 25, 2000:

No Railway Competition Without Compensation

May 23, 2000:

MPS Must Improve Transportation Legislation

May 16, 2000:

Farmers Propose Improvements to Whistleblowing Act

May 10, 2000:

Transportation Legislation asks Farmers to give up Wheat Board for $6

May 3, 2000:

Harris Fiddles while Ontario Agriculture Burns

April 2000 Releases

April 26, 2000:

NFU to Collenette: Look Critically at Grain Companies' Proposals to Overhaul Handling and Transportation System

April 26, 2000:

Freight Rate Increase Unbelievable

April 19, 2000:

Drainage Programs Key for Food Security and Farmers

April 16, 2000:

Senate Report Could Let Health Canada Off the Hook

April 13, 2000:

Food Safety Booklet Paints Rosy Picture of Flawed System

April 12, 2000:

Canada Needs Whistleblower-Protection Legislation

March 2000 Releases

March 30, 2000:

New Brunswick Budget Guts Department of Agriculture

March 28, 2000:

Canadian Grain Commission Suspends Inspector for Alerting Farmers to Serious Threats to Inspection System

March 14, 2000:

Chatenay Rewards His Neighbours with CWB-Funded Banquet in his Backyard

March 13, 2000:

Taxes on Farm Inputs

March 8, 2000:

$150 Million is a Gift to the Railways

March 6, 2000:

Women in Farming Press For Fair Taxation

March 5, 2000:

Farm Women's Leadership Meets With Vanclief, Mitchell

March 2, 2000:

Government Supports a Strong Canadian Grain Commission

February 2000 Releases

February 28, 2000:

Federal Budget Offers Nothing To Farmers Facing Depression-Era Incomes

February 25, 2000:

Spring Cash Advances Not a Solution: NFU

February 24, 2000:

Keep the "Farm" in Farm Credit

February 24, 2000:

Federal Money Does Not Begin to Make Up for Farmers' Increased Transportation Costs

February 17, 2000:

European Union Subsidies Are Not The Cause of the Farm Income Crisis

February 9, 2000:

NFU Calls for a Review of Farm Labour Regulations

February 9, 2000:

NFU Calls For Clean Environment Commission Hearings Prior To Further Expansion Of Manitoba Hog Industry

February 1, 2000:

Canadian Cattle Export Industry Vulnerable To Further U.S. Import Restrictions Because Of Loose Talk By CWB Director

January 2000 Releases

January 31, 2000:

Railway Deregulation: Canadian Airlines All Over Again?

January 27, 2000:

Farmers At Rally Sending Their Shirts To Ottawa

January 25, 2000:

Farmers Send Finance Minister The Shirts Off Their Backs

January 24, 2000:

We're Losing Our Shirts

January 21, 2000:

NFU Calls For Farm Income Coalition Solidarity

January 18, 2000:

Urban Support Heartening for Farmers

January 14, 2000:

"New" Federal Farm Dollars Neither New Nor Adequate: NFU

January 11, 2000:

Open Letter to Hon. David Collenette

January 7, 2000:

NFU Calls Wheat Grower Comments Irresponsible

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