CP Rail
The manic force of a train that went off the rails in B.C.
Image of the week: The scene of the CP derailment near Field that killed three crew members was a reminder how calamitously wrong rail transport can go
Are train companies railroading Canadian communities?
Towns and cities across Canada are taking on powerful train companies over everything from speed to belligerence
Oil rides the rails
Train delivery is proving to be more flexible than pipelines for crude
‘The government has no option but to act’
Shortly before 1:30am this morning, the CP Rail back-to-work legislation passed the House.
‘New Democrats will not let that happen’
The House will spend this evening and night debating the government’s back-to-work legislation for CP Rail. A final vote is expected sometime in the early morning hours.
Independent thought alert
John Ivison detects discomfort over the government’s latest back-to-work legislation.
This is why we can’t have nice things
During QP this afternoon, interim Liberal leader Bob Rae wondered whether the government would agree to send the CP Rail back-to-work legislation to a parliamentary committee so that MPs could hear from both sides of the dispute. Labour Minister Lisa Raitt dismissed the possibility because of what happened in 1995.
Ottawa expected to intervene in CP Rail strike
Almost 5,000 Canadian Pacific Railway striking locomotive engineers and conductors could be forced back to work as Ottawa prepares to introduce legislation, the CBC reports.