Rail stoppage a hit to Canada's vital transportation sector: experts

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Rail stoppage a hit to Canada's vital transportation sector: experts
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The rail strike is just the latest round of labour woes to hit Canada's vital transportation sector.

The rail strike is just the latest round of labour woes to hit Canada's vital transportation sector."Reliability is a crucial phenomenon in supply chains," says Trevor Heaver, a professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia.

In an online statement, the company says, "This section of the route runs on CPKC tracks, and they will not allow us to operate while their rail traffic controllers are not working due to the labour action. As soon as our operations team receives confirmation from our partners at CPKC that we can begin to run our trains on these tracks again, we will do so. Our team is ready to return to our normal operations at a moment's notice, once the rail line permits us.

A Lethbridge woman who won $1 million on the lottery says she plans to use her windfall to buy a house.A 13-year-old girl who was critically injured in a crash near Coalhurst, Alta., on Wednesday morning has died, RCMP said Friday.Vancity has filed documents in the Supreme Court of British Columbia to begin foreclosure proceedings against Fu Ren and Feng Yan, the owners of a Mount Pleasant apartment building that caught fire three times in just over 12 months.

Montreal's transit authority said it has no immediate plans to implement platform screen doors on the metro despite repeated pleas from Quebec coroners who say the safety barriers can prevent suicides and assurances from the province that the costs to install them would be covered.

A Winnipeg man has been charged after a child sex doll was seized by the Canada Border Services Agency .Visitors to the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa will have to undergo a bag check before entering, after the museum received a threatening email. An Ontario woman paid seven times more for her theatre tickets than she thought she did. 'I was shocked. I had no idea the tickets were going to cost that much.'There were two new wildland fires confirmed in the Northeast Region early evening on Friday, Ontario Forest Fires said in its nightly update.After a four-month investigation, provincial police in North Bay charged a 56-year-old Mattawa resident with several human sex trafficking-related offences.

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