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Teamsters take down picket lines at CN Rail, stoppage continues at CPKC
Locked out Canadian National Rail workers stand at a picket line as locomotives are moved by management at CN Rail's Thornton Yard, in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, August 22, 2024. In the culmination of months of increasingly bitter negotiations, Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. locked out 9,300 engineers, conductors and yard workers after the parties failed to agree on a new contract before the midnight deadline. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Business Brief: Getting the trains moving again
CN workers picket in Toronto, as the rest of the country briefly grappled with an unprecedented total shutdown of Canada's two national railways.
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At least 14 dead, 16 injured after bus with Indian pilgrims drives off Nepal highway
Rescue personnel gather at the site after a bus carrying Indian passengers plunged into the Marsyangdi river in Nepal's Tanahun district on August 23, 2024. The bus was travelling from the tourist city of Pokhara to the capital Kathmandu when the accident occurred in Tanahun district. "We have rescued 31 passengers so far but 14 of them were unconscious," district police spokesman Deepak Kumar Rai told AFP. (Photo by SHANKHAR ADHIKARI / AFP) (Photo by SHANKHAR ADHIKARI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Disruptions to major commuter lines in GTA, Montreal and Vancouver continue as CN, CPKC await word on arbitration
People wait inside at the Union Station bus terminal as a national rail shutdown causes delays, after employees were locked out by both major Canadian railways after a deadlock in contract negotiations, in Toronto, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. Thousands of Canadian commuters may have to change their travel plans for a second day after a countrywide rail lockout shut down lines in major metropolitan areas. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paige Taylor White
opinion
The railway worker lockout was incredibly damaging, with more disruptions on the horizon
John Ibbitson
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Grain farmers and pork producers bearing the brunt of rail stoppage
Locked out Canadian National Rail workers stand at a picket line as locomotives are moved by management at CN Rail's Thornton Yard, in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, August 22, 2024. In the culmination of months of increasingly bitter negotiations, Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. locked out 9,300 engineers, conductors and yard workers after the parties failed to agree on a new contract before the midnight deadline. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Railways say lockouts ending after federal government orders binding arbitration
Teamsters Canada Rail Conference members walk a picket line at the CPKC headquarters in Calgary, Alta., Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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GM’s Cruise to deploy its autonomous vehicles on Uber platform
FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2019, file photo, Cruise AV, General Motor's autonomous electric Bolt EV is displayed in Detroit. General Motors' self-driving car company is sending vehicles without anybody behind the wheel in San Francisco as it navigates its way toward launching a robotic taxi service that would compete against Uber and Lyft in the hometown of the leading ride-hailing services. The move announced Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, by GM-owned Cruise come two months after the company received California’s permission to fully driverless cars in the state. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
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Vancouver public transit is in trouble, and it’s not the only one
Gary Mason
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Federal government will soon take steps to resolve railway stoppages, Trudeau says
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a statement on the potential rail strike following an event in Gatineau, Que., on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Ferry loaded with fuel sinks at Russian port after Ukrainian attack
Smoke and flames rise from the port of Kavkaz, in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict, as seen from Chushka, Krasnodar region, Russia, August 22, 2024, in this screengrab taken from a social media video. Social Media/via REUTERS
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Canada’s biggest railways lock out workers after failed negotiations with union
A CN employee hammers a sign into place after Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) locked out workers following unsuccessful negotiation attempts with a major labor union in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada August 22, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio
politics
CEO of planned Toronto-Quebec City rail project welcomes airline interest as Air Canada joins bid
Martin Imbleau, head of Via Rail’s new high-frequency rail project, looks on during an interview in Montreal, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
opinion
Who to blame for the railway labour dispute? Ottawa, but not why you think
Bruce Curran
explainer
What to know about the potential work stoppage at Canada’s two biggest railways
FILE PHOTO: Railway cars crowd the CN Rail freight depot in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada August 19, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio/File Photo
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Canada’s biggest railways, union in final talks to reach labour agreement before midnight deadline
FILE PHOTO: A Canadian Pacific Railway (CP Rail) locomotive backs into position at the company's Toronto Yard in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada March 20, 2022. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo
opinion
Canada is losing flight routes. This has serious consequences
Monette Pasher
driving concerns
Electric unicycles are everywhere, but aren’t they illegal to ride?
A man rides a Ninebot One electric unicycle near the venue of a Segway-Ninebot product launch event in Beijing, China August 16, 2019. REUTERS/Florence Lo
road sage
If Toronto can’t improve its world-class traffic, it will decay into a gridlocked carcass
Andrew Clark
driving concerns
Is it legal to park facing traffic?
IMG_5915.JPG cars parked the wrong way for Driving Concern Column. Hamilton On September 24, 2018
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