Transportation
25% of small businesses impacted negatively by rail blockades: CFIB
Small businesses in the four western provinces were affected the most
Fed’s Ocean Supercluster announces $6.8M startup project
The program aims to increase industrial use of marine technologies and grow the ocean industries workforce
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
