Transportation
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Trudeau says time for blockades to end, Indigenous leaders to work with government
Trudeau is contending with pressure from several premiers after they had a collective telephone call with him Feb. 20
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Ban on heavy fuel oil in Arctic full of holes: environmental group [UPDATED]
Andrew Dumbrille of the World Wildlife Fund says the ban as proposed would allow Arctic nations to exempt their own ships for another five years
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Blockade trips up Canada’s biggest ports as shippers steer clear of rail closure
Atlantic Container Line, a major U.S. shipping line, is diverting from the Port of Halifax in favour of U.S. harbours
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Feds, Quebec investing $4.8M to connect rural road stop to power grid
The road stop is the only one on the northern James Bay Road, which is 620 kilometres long; the site is currently powered by diesel generators
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Major shipper steers clear of Halifax port as rail blockades continue
Atlantic Container Line is now docking in New York and Baltimore instead to run cargo inland on American railroads
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Oil spill estimate in Saskatchewan derailment increases to 1.6 million litres
A freight train jumped the tracks on Feb. 6 near Guernsey, about 115 kilometres southeast of Saskatoon
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CUTRIC partners with post-secondary institutions on electric bus research
The Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium has supported the electrification of routes in Vancouver, Brampton, Ont., and Toronto’s York Region
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Via Rail lays off 1,000 employees temporarily as blockades drag on [UPDATED]
The layoffs come amid growing pressure on the federal government to take action against rail blockades in support of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs
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No injuries as CN train carrying crude oil derails in northwestern Ontario
CN says 31 cars came off the tracks near Emo, Ont. at around 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 18
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PM urges patience, promises reconciliation in face of anti-pipeline blockade
Describing Trudeau’s speech as “the weakest response to a national crisis in Canadian history,” Andrew Scheer blasted the protesters as “radical activists”
