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UN probes Wheat Pool Payments of $23.15M made in oil-for-food scandal congressional hearing told Steven Edwards CanWest News Service Saturday, April 30, 2005 UNITED NATIONS -- The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool has emerged as one of the companies involved in Iraq oil-for-food deals now under investigation by a U.S. congressional committee probing the United Nations aid program, which Saddam Hussein manipulated to skim off billions of dollars for himself. The focus on the company comes as the UN announced Friday it had discovered a staff-rule violation by Canadian businessperson and international diplomat Maurice Strong, whose long record at the world body...

CANADIAN FARMERS JAILED FOR SELLING WHEAT Their reports from behind bars Jim Chatenay National Post http://www.nationalpost.com/search/site/story.asp?id=D3779E98-8948-40C2-9955-1C1205EE3521 Todd Korol, National Post Two guards had tears in their eyes, says Jim Chatenay, who turned himself in to authorities on Thursday. PRISONER'S ALMANAC: A REBEL WHEAT FARMER'S FIRST DAY IN JAIL: Jim Chatenay, with his cat Emily on his farm west of Penhold, Alta., went to jail this week to protest the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly over Western grain growers.: (Photo ran on pg.A1.) Jim Chatenay is one of 13 Alberta farmers who went to jail on Thursday to protest the Canadian Wheat...

October 31, 2002 Trick or Treat? 13 Canadian farmers hauled off to jail in handcuffsby J. L. Jackson www.freedominion.ca It may be Halloween but it isn’t a trick and certainly no treat. On October 31st, thirteen political protesters were handcuffed and sent to jail in Lethbridge, Alberta. These weren’t your average run of the mill anti-globalism, Marxist, hippy type of protesters, however. Believe it or not, these were – farmers. Regular every-day kind of farmers who plant their grain, have coffee in the local coffee shop, buy farm supplies at the local farm supply store and who often buy their...

...for selling grain Farmers 'want to go to jail in the worst way' Wheat Board protest Robert Remington National Post Thursday, October 24, 2002 Dave Chan, National Post Farmers, from left, Jim Ness, Noel Hyslip and Rick Strankman, are prepared to go to jail for selling their wheat in the United States. ADVERTISEMENT CALGARY - In April of 1996, farmer Darren Winczura took a bag of grain across the Alberta border and donated it to a 4-H club in Montana. For that symbolic act of defiance against the Canadian Wheat Board, Mr. Winczura will go to jail next week rather...

Anti-CWB forces see promising signsthis document web posted: Thursday October 3, 2002 20021003p11 By Barry Wilson Ottawa bureau Political momentum in the parliamentary debate over the Canadian Wheat Board has shifted in favour of those opposed to the monopoly and it is partly because Ontario farmers have joined the discussion, says the Ottawa representative for Grain Growers of Canada. GGC executive director Cam Dahl said the wheat board monopoly will be one of the "big four" issues he expects to be pushing on Parliament Hill, along with safety nets, environmental issues and trade. And he thinks the anti-monopoly grain...

Alberta farmers risk jail in protest of the Canadian Wheat Board Wednesday October 01, 2002 - 19:02:41 EST CAROL HARRINGTON http://www.guelphmercury.com/news/national/n1001118A.html CALGARY (CP) - Alberta farmer Jim Ness tightened the handcuffs around his wrists Tuesday, declaring he and several other farmers will likely go to jail next month for illegally exporting grain in a protest over the Canadian Wheat Board. "We won't back down, we won't give in, we're going to jail," Ness told a news conference. "We'll stand shoulder to shoulder and get locked away like common criminals for nothing more than trying to get freedom to market our...