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The looming strike is the latest twist in a labor dispute at Canada's top two railroads, which locked out more than 9,000 unionized workers on Thursday, triggering a simultaneous rail stoppage ...
Protests on February 15 over 200 people in Toronto blocked Macmillan Yard, the second largest rail classification yard in Canada. [86] On February 16 and 17 temporarily blocked the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls, Ontario and Thousand Islands Bridge in Ivy Lea, Ontario, two major border crossings between the United States and Canada. [ 87 ]
Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) halted operations and locked out workers over a labor dispute early on Sunday, with each side blaming the other for a halt that will likely disrupt shipment of key ...
MONTREAL/WINNIPEG (Reuters) - Thousands of workers at Canada's largest railway went on strike for the first time in a decade on Tuesday, disrupting the shipping of commodities and sparking calls ...
February 24 – Rail blockades come down in New Brunswick after being served with an injunction. [64] February 24 – New protests form in British Columbia, blocking the BC Legislature, the Port of Vancouver and rail lines in Hazelton and Kamloops. [69] In Hazleton, 14 protesters, including three Gitxsan hereditary chiefs, are arrested.
The 2024 Canada railway dispute was a labour-business dispute between the Canadian National Railway Company (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference that shut down the freight railway operations of both railway companies. The shutdown also included passenger trains operating on CPKC tracks, but not ...
The train's engine overturned on a wooden bridge that was washed out due to flooding. [49] Tignish train crash: 21 February 1932: near Tignish, Prince Edward Island: 4: 11: A snowstorm resulted in a train getting stuck in a snow drift. Another train collided head on with the stuck train. The incident is considered PEI's worst rail accident. [50]
Police began towing trucks from central Ottawa on Friday and stepped up arrests of protesters in a bid to end a trucker-led movement that has blockaded Canada's capital for three weeks and ...