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Key federal minister in Canada/China dispute fighting cancer

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 25, 2019

Just days after two senior cabinet ministers from the Prairies were defeated in Monday’s federal election, the Liberal government is now facing the possibility of a third stepping away from cabinet. International Trade Diversification Minister Jim Carr from Manitoba announced on Friday that he has been diagnosed with a type of blood cancer known as […] Read more

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Canada takes first step at WTO to challenge China’s canola ban

By David Ljunggren September 6, 2019

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada, locked in a major dispute with Beijing, is taking the first formal step at the World Trade Organization to challenge China’s decision to block Canadian canola exports, Trade Minister Jim Carr said Friday. China, angry at Canada’s detention of a top Huawei Technologies executive last year on a U.S. arrest […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

Canada says bogus certificates being used to smuggle meat into China

By Kelsey Johnson June 26, 2019

Ottawa | Reuters — Unknown actors are using bogus certificates to smuggle Canadian meat into China, Trade Minister Jim Carr said on Wednesday, a day after Beijing halted beef and pork imports citing falsified paperwork. China, which has already blocked imports of Canadian canola seed and product from three pork plants, said on Tuesday it […] Read more

Canola, Crops

Canada ‘playing chess’ on canola file

By Phil Franz-Warkentin - MarketsFarm May 3, 2019

MarketsFarm — Canola seed sales to China remain at a standstill with little fresh news to report, according to a Canola Council of Canada briefing to farmers held Friday morning together with federal International Trade Diversification Minister Jim Carr. However, efforts on a number of fronts are ongoing, as Canada works to resolve the issue. […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

Canada to set up working group for China canola push

By GFM Staff April 1, 2019

Canola industry stakeholders and provincial officials are to join federal officials in a co-ordinated push to resolve China’s issues with Canadian canola, cabinet ministers said Monday. Speaking Monday in Ottawa, Canada’s Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau and International Trade Diversification Minister Jim Carr said they’ve set up a new working group including representatives from the Canola […] Read more

Crops, Machinery & Shop

Ottawa budgets $117 million to reconnect Churchill

By GFM Staff September 15, 2018

The federal government’s latest commitment to restore and maintain rail service from the eastern Prairies up to Hudson Bay will involve $117 million over the next 10 years. Ottawa’s pledge follows the Aug. 31 announcement of a deal for a private/public partnership group to buy the Hudson Bay Railway line, which has been closed since […] Read more

Crops, Machinery & Shop, Weather

Hudson Bay rail line repairs to start ‘immediately’

By GFM Staff September 2, 2018

Off-and-on talks toward a new ownership group for the Hudson Bay Railway have produced a deal, which it’s hoped will lead to the line’s repair before this winter, federal officials announced Friday. Federal Trade Diversification Minister Jim Carr and Northern Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced the Arctic Gateway Group Limited Partnership has bought the Hudson […] Read more

General, Markets, Reuters

World’s ‘affection’ for Canada will help in trade diversification: Carr

By David Ljunggren July 20, 2018

Ottawa | Reuters — There is “an awful lot of affection for Canada” around the world that will help the government’s push to diversify exports away from the United States, the country’s new trade minister said on Thursday, as ties with Washington become more strained. Winnipeg MP Jim Carr, previously the minister for natural resources, […] Read more

Crops, Machinery & Shop, Weather

Ottawa threatens suit for Hudson Bay rail line repairs

By Alberta Farmer Staff October 13, 2017

The federal government says the owner of the Hudson Bay Railway has 30 days to get the washed-out line repaired and running or will face a lawsuit for breach of contract. Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr, the MP for the Manitoba riding of Winnipeg South Centre, said in a statement Friday that U.S. rail operator […] Read more

Canada’s wheat ending stocks projections raised

Fund traders grow long positions in canola, U.S. futures

Prairie cash wheat: Bids mixed

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Canada’s wheat ending stocks projections raised

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Key federal minister in Canada/China dispute fighting cancer

Canada takes first step at WTO to challenge China’s canola ban

Canada says bogus certificates being used to smuggle meat into China

Canada ‘playing chess’ on canola file

Canada to set up working group for China canola push

Ottawa budgets $117 million to reconnect Churchill

Hudson Bay rail line repairs to start ‘immediately’

World’s ‘affection’ for Canada will help in trade diversification: Carr

Ottawa threatens suit for Hudson Bay rail line repairs

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