Alberta farmer fights to save Irma elevator from demolition
Irma resident Irma Alta. Hex Gulbran campaigned for 18 months to buy the town's last elevator from Agricore amid plans for a concrete facility 45 kilometres away. After a delayed tender, his bid failed and the elevator was torn down, leaving him with daily reminders of the loss and a sense of betrayal.
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Irma
Alta
Hex Gulbran
Alberta
Gulbran
Agricore
Alberta Wheat Pool
Neil Silver
Stenen
Sask
Edmonton
CN Rail
Ty Insurance
Irma Town Council
Mike Wood
Winnipeg
Wood
Silver
Chickpeas Gain Ground In Farm Production
A Saskatchewan style farm brief notes rapid expansion of Canadian chickpea production. Chickpeas or garbanzo beans offer high value, drought tolerance, nitrogen fixation, and fit well in cereal rotations. Steps cover site choice, rotations, seeding prep, weeding, disease watch, harvest methods, and cautions about impurities. Gordon Parker, PAg., provides guidance in Medicine Hat area.
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Middle East
Gordon Parker
Medicine Hat
Parkerge
Telusplanet
Calgary Birthplace Forest to Plant Trees for New Babies
Under Calgary’s Birthplace Forest plan expectant mothers register at hospitals free of charge and each birth will trigger a tree planting with a marker showing the baby’s name and birth date. First trees planned for Father's Day 2001 pending site selection.
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Lance Hartwell
Golden Acre Garden Centres
Calgarians
WestJet baggage strike sparks Edmonton service dispute
In Edmonton the baggage handlers strike continues with WestJet and union officials clashing over delays. WestJet says cold weather drives delays while the IAMAW argues slower baggage handling is to blame. CanCom Aviation, now part of ATS Airport Terminal Services, contracts baggage handling in Edmonton. Eight ATS supervisors from other Canadian cities assist local staff.
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Edmonton
WestJet
Siobhan Vinish
Mike Clegg
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union
CanCom Aviation
ATS Airport Terminal Services
St. Louis
ATS
Tim McLeod
Alberta hog firm charged over cold weather pig deaths
Outlook Park Ltd of Lethbridge Alberta and its president Peter Klok along with truck driver Cornelius Neufeld face two charges under the federal Health of Animals Act for transporting hogs in weather likely to cause undue suffering and for failing to provide adequate bedding on the truck. Some pigs died or were injured en route to Winnipeg last winter and were euthanized at Schneider's plant.
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Winnipeg
Alberta
Anne Krahn
Outlook Park Ltd
Lethbridge, Alto
Peter Klok
Cornelius Neufeld
Krahn
Schneider
Klok
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Harold Gulbran
Canadian Press
Calgary
Cheval Mirror
Ata Puter
Trans Canada Way
S.E. Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat News
John Maclaren
Max Medalta Real Estate
Angus Mergerseri
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