Maple Leaf and government policy
is to blame for the continued loss of hog producers and a risk to “thousands of
jobs” at the Brandon slaughter plant.
Manitoba Pork Council general
manager Andrew Dickson would have us believe that the province-wide hog
production ban and new manure treatment regulations are the culprits.
Does Dickson forget that the
loss of most independent hog farmers started when the Maple Leaf, Hy-Tek and
Puratone corporations set up their pyramid scheme-like operations and the
conservative Filmon government removed single-desk marketing protection in the
late 1990s? Well before a moratorium and phosphorus regulation was put in place.
Further details here.
Opponents of the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline are organizing what they're calling the largest act of peaceful civil disobedience on the oil sands issue in Canada. Full story here.
