March 11, 2020 | Canada, Headlines, VIA Rail
(Source: Global News, March 9, 2020) OTTAWA — Current and former Via employees say that violent incidents used to be rare on board the Canadian. But they say this changed after October 2018, when Greyhound cancelled most of its bus routes in Western Canada, leaving...
March 11, 2020 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, March 10, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Canadian grain producers anticipate industrywide costs of the recent rail blockades will total roughly C$300 million overall by the time network capacity returns to normal later this year. The costs come...
March 9, 2020 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, March 9, 2020) MONTREAL — Like they have since the small northern Ontario town was founded, trains rumble through Gogama several times a day, just steps from people’s homes. Gerry Talbot says in the last five years he looks at those oil trains...
March 6, 2020 | BNSF, Canada, Headlines
(Source: Financial Post, March 6, 2020) OTTAWA — Warren Buffett, one of the world’s most influential investors, has pulled out of a proposed $9 billion liquefied natural gas project in Quebec over concerns about railway blockades and infrastructure challenges. Full...
March 6, 2020 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: Montreal Gazette, March 5, 2020) MONTREAL — In the end it wasn’t force that drove them from the tracks; not a military raid or convoy of police cruisers sent to smash through the Mohawk lines. Full story: Montreal Gazette
March 6, 2020 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: CBC News, March 5, 2020) MONTREAL — The remaining blockades halting rail traffic in Quebec were taken down Thursday, putting an end to three weeks of protest in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs in British Columbia. Full story:...
March 5, 2020 | Canada, CP, Headlines
(Source: Canadian Press, March 4, 2020) MONTREAL — Canadian Pacific Railway was able to inspect the railway tracks at Kahnawake, where protesters have maintained a blockade for more than three weeks, on Wednesday after the protesters allowed them through. Full story:...
March 5, 2020 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: Globe and Mail, March 3, 2020) TORONTO — The blockades have been a response to RCMP arrests on Wet’suwet’en territory in northern B.C., where protesters have been trying to stop the Coastal GasLink pipeline. But for many Indigenous demonstrators from...
March 2, 2020 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: Reuters, February 28, 2020) MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway Co has started calling back many of the 450 workers it laid off earlier this month in eastern Canada, when blockades crippled operations on strategic rail lines, according to a company email...
March 2, 2020 | Canada, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, March 1, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — After three days of negotiations, the hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en and Canadian government officials have reached a tentative agreement on how to proceed with Coastal GasLink’s project to construct a...
