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November 18, 2002 The Report Alberta farmers go to jail to fight the Canadian Wheat Board over freedom, private property and justice by Candis McLean IN the living room of his spacious farm home southwest of Red Deer, Alta., Jim Chatenay stands surveying the intricately carved ivory chess set given his great-grandfather, a president of Switzerland, by the king of Siam. It is a few days before Mr. Chatenay, 59, is due to turn himself in to security officers, one of 13 Alberta farmers who chose to go to jail to protest coercion by the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB). "It's...

...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...

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...