Australia’s AWB to become private commercial wheat board
Notes from the Frontier compares Canada’s proposed Wheat Board reforms with Australia’s shift on July 1 1999 to privatize the AWB turning it into a private corporation owned by growers while retaining an export wheat monopoly. Class A and B shares weigh on governance and funding. The reform aims to attract private underwriting, end government guarantees, and empower farmers to exit shares if policy disagreed.
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Canadian Wheat Board
Australia
Australian Wheat Board
AWB
Crown
New Commercial Wheat Board
AWB Ltd
The
Wall Street Journal
Manitoba short line to haul grain marks milestone
Waskada and Goodlands residents celebrate the Lyleton subdivision becoming Manitoba’s first short line to haul grain. The line, once abandoned or neglected, survived through local persistence despite CP’s resistance and future competition from highway trucking and new concrete facilities in northern Manitoba.
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Waskada
Goodlands
Manitoba
CP Lyleton
Deloraine
Central Western Railway
Alberta
Southern Rails Co-operative
Saskatchewan
Lyleton
Federal Railways
Robson Commission
Stoughput
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
Life After Grad: Guidance for Students and Parents
A veteran speaker urges teens to plan careers early focusing on practical training. He cites the demand for computer science skills, co op programs, and the job market, advising scrapbooks of job ads, interviews, and exploring trades or college paths to fit individual strengths.
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Morris Bodnar
Saskatoon-Dundurn
Ottawa
U. of Waterloo
Rawinse
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