July 3, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Remote Control
(Source: CBC News, June 27, 2018) TORONTO — A probe into how 74 rail cars were allowed to roll uncontrolled for five kilometres onto a busy track just north of Toronto has resulted in investigators calling for Transport Canada to overhaul training requirements for...
June 26, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Montreal Gazette opinion column by Bernard D’Arche, June 23, 2018) MONTREAL — Building a city does not consist solely of erecting buildings. That’s the easy part. Building cities requires first and foremost the creation of a culture and mindset: the creation...
June 15, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, June 14, 2018) CALGARY — Railway exports of crude oil from Western Canada are starting to increase. Crude by rail exports to the United States jumped to a three-year high in March of just over 170,000 barrels per day, the highest since...
June 12, 2018 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: Canadian Press, June 11, 2018) TORONTO — One of the country’s foremost railway companies will have to ensure cars can use a bridge in Thunder Bay, Ont., under terms of an agreement signed more than a century ago, Ontario’s top court ruled on Monday. Full...
May 23, 2018 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: Bloomberg, May 22, 2018) Ownership limits in Canadian airlines and the country’s biggest railway will rise this week after the wrangling over a controversial transport law finally came to an end. The law would raise the individual ownership limit in Canadian...
May 14, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Global News, May 11, 2018) MONTREAL — Ottawa and Quebec are splitting the bill for new railway tracks around Lac-Megantic, but not everyone is happy. Full story: www.globalnews.ca
May 9, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, May 8, 2018) MONTREAL — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau will visit Lac-Megantic on Friday to make an official announcement regarding the funding plan for a rail bypass that would redirect train’s...
May 8, 2018 | Canada, CP, Headlines
(Source: Bloomberg, May 8, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Every day for more than six months, Jessica Raycraft has confronted hulking mounds of evidence of the great Canadian bottleneck. They’re stranded on her farm — wheat, peas and canola in 300-foot-long,...
May 1, 2018 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: Bloomberg, April 30, 2018) NEW YORK — A proposed law raising foreign ownership limits in airlines and Canada’s biggest railway carrier is headed back to the Senate, the latest step in a tug-of-war that has the mining sector speaking out. Full story:...
May 1, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, May 1, 2018) CALGARY — With no capacity to spare on pipelines out of Alberta, oilpatch leaders are desperately waiting for when they’ll be able to ship more crude on rail lines. Full story: www.cbc.ca
