The new Trainfo agreement is expected to cost around $421,680 and will be covered by the grant from Transport Canada, as well as a local developer. If the project is approved, motorists could see the technology come into effect later this year and stick around until at least 2030.

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Prentice said Manitoba producers will be hurt, but not as bad as farmers in Saskatchewan and Alberta because of the province’s proximity to other ports.

“Prince Rupert and Thunder Bay are still open. And in the case of Manitoba, we ship more grain through Thunder Bay than the other two provinces. So again, a little less impact, but it depends where you’re shipping.”

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Professor Prentice was also on CBC’s Up To Speed: According to Grain Growers of Canada, more than 50 percent of grain exports travel through the Port of Vancouver. But movement stopped this morning as workers at Metro Vancouver grain terminals walked off the job and onto the picket lines. Barry Prentice is a professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Manitoba. He tells host Faith Fundal what this strike means for Manitoba farmers in the midst of the harvest season.

The binding arbitration decision that sets terms of the bargaining agreement will happen in coming weeks. Curran suggested the judicial review sought by the union will not come to court for about six months. Even if the court finds that the back-to-work decision was a mistake, it is unlikely the collective agreement arising from arbitration would be torn up.

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At Canadian National Railway Co., trains began to move again Friday morning as workers started to return to work — even as the Teamsters union issued a 72-hour strike notice against CN shortly before 10 a.m. ET.

And at Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd., the union representing some 3,300 employees at Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd., is challenging a directive for binding arbitration issued by Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon to the country’s labour board.

Bruce Curran, PhD, associate professor in the faculty of law of the University of Manitoba, joins BNN Bloomberg to share his outlook for the markets.

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He was also quoted in The Globe and Mail.

Here is another story you may be interested in, it is an opinion piece written by Professor Curran for the Globe and Mail.

“People do underestimate the importance of the railways,” said Barry Prentice, a transportation professor at the University of Manitoba. Still, “the average Canadian isn’t going to see very much [impact] because most of what they purchase is delivered by truck. The people who will feel it are people who are shipping commodities, farmers and people working in the forest industries and others.”

To read the entire story, please visit The Globe and Mail.