August 14, 2015 | Canada, Headlines, VIA Rail
(Source: CBC News, August 14, 2015) OTTAWA — Via Rail is suing the City of Ottawa and the estate of OC Transpo bus driver Dave Woodard for $4 million in damages for “negligence” in the latest lawsuit following the fatal bus-train crash nearly two years...
July 14, 2015 | Headlines, Railroad Security, VIA Rail
(Source: Canadian Press, July 13, 2015) TORONTO — A psychologist has described a man convicted of terrorism in a plot to derail a passenger train as a desperate drug addict who conned people to get high but wouldn’t even kill a spider. Full story:...
June 5, 2015 | Canada, Headlines, VIA Rail
(Source: Globe and Mail, June 4, 2015) TORONTO — The head of Via Rail Canada Inc., Yves Desjardins-Siciliano, told a room full of bankers, pension-fund managers and developers the $3-billion proposal to buy and build dedicated passenger train tracks in the busy...
April 10, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train, VIA Rail
(Source: CBC News, April 9, 2015) TORONTO — Via Rail says it will resume passenger train service between Toronto and Winnipeg on Friday. Via halted passenger service on the route following a CN freight train derailment in northern Ontario on March 7. Full story: CBC...
April 10, 2015 | Headlines, Railroad Security, VIA Rail
(Source: Hamilton Spectator, April 10, 2015) TORONTO — Sentencing arguments are set for today in Toronto for two men found guilty last month of plotting to derail a passenger train traveling between Canada and the U.S. Full story: Hamilton...
March 25, 2015 | Headlines, Railroad Security, VIA Rail
(Source: GlobalNews.ca, March 21, 2015) TORONTO — The two men accused of plotting to derail a Via passenger train have both been found guilty of terror-related charges. Full story: GlobalNews.ca
March 20, 2015 | Headlines, Railroad Security, VIA Rail
(Source: Canadian Press, March 20, 2015) TORONTO — A Toronto jury working to overcome an impasse in their deliberations asked Thursday to revisit a portion of evidence heard at the trial of two men accused of plotting to derail a passenger train. The 12-member panel...
March 19, 2015 | Headlines, Railroad Security, VIA Rail
(Source: CBC News, March 18, 2015) TORONTO — Jurors in the trial of Raed Jaser and Chiheb Esseghaier, two men accused of plotting to derail a Via passenger train travelling between Canada and the U.S., have halted deliberations for the night and are set to start a...
March 12, 2015 | Canada, Headlines, VIA Rail
(Source: Bloomberg, March 11, 2015) TORONTO — For Via Rail Canada Inc. Chief Executive Officer Yves Desjardins-Siciliano, the biggest challenge facing the country’s passenger rail service can be explained with a grade-five math question. Full story:...
February 11, 2015 | Headlines, Railroad Security, VIA Rail
(Source: Toronto Star, February 9, 2015) TORONTO — As a Via Rail train passed dangerously close to three men plotting the best way to cause it to careen off the tracks, Raed Jaser allegedly said: “That’s the target.” Jaser and Chiheb Esseghaier are now on trial in a...
