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New VR-Based Driver-Training Program Allows You to Get behind the "Wheel" to Test Your Rail-Safety Knowledge
OTTAWA, Ontario — Picture this: your vehicle is stuck on the tracks in the middle of a railway crossing. You watch as the crossing gates lower around you. You can hear the...
Peter Foster: Bill Gates, defying the Climate Barons, tells the ugly truth about renewables
Market advocates have always claimed that policy advice from business should be treated with suspicion. To read full article click here
Kudlow Says He's Working to End Tariffs as Canada Balks
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said he’s working to remove U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada and Mexico, after a Canadian minister signaled...
4 things you should know about the $4.66B contract for LRT Stage 2
It's only been a few days since the startling news that the price tag to build the second stage of Ottawa's light-rail system ballooned by more than $1.2 billion to a...
Tariffs impeding passage of USMCA deal through Parliament, Garneau warns U.S. governors
WASHINGTON – Parliament will struggle to ratify the new North American trade deal if U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum exports aren’t lifted soon, Canada’s transport...
Congress should ratify USMCA trade deal now
When it comes to trade, America’s farmers and ranchers know a good deal when they see one. To read full article click here
Half of Canadian executives say old NAFTA better for our economy than USMCA
It took Canada 17 months of grinding, teeth-gnashing, often round-the-clock negotiations to hammer out a new trilateral trade deal with the United States and Mexico, but...
OC Transpo postpones LRT test Sunday
A plan to simulate how city buses and light rail trains would interact at Tunney's Pasture station Sunday has been postponed. To read full article click here
'We didn't like it at all': CP Rail CEO objects to oil production curtailments
The head of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. has voiced his discomfort at the idea of Alberta Premier Rachel Notley's recent production curtailments, designed to draw down a...
Canada could delay ratification of new NAFTA until U.S. metals tariffs are lifted: Garneau
Transport Minister Marc Garneau said today the federal government isn't ruling out delaying Canada's ratification of the new North American free trade pact until after the...
Broken axle caused New Hazelton train derailment: TSB
The CN freight train that derailed near New Hazelton — spilling coal into Mission Creek — left the track because of a broken axle. To read full article click here
Theresa May faces ministerial revolt over no-deal Brexit
Theresa May is facing the most serious cabinet revolt of her premiership next week, with as many as 25 members of the government ready to vote for a Brexit delay unless she...