Transport Canada

As the proposed Bunge-Viterra merger makes it way through the regulatory approval process of the Competition Bureau, it was a featured topic of debate in the Saskatchewan Legislature Thursday. It surfaced in Question Period when NDP Ag Critic Trent Wotherspoon accused the SaskParty government of being silent over the file. Wotherspoon says he asked Agriculture […]

The Competition Bureau of Canada pointed out the Bunge-Viterra merger would create “substantially” less competition for grain buying in Western Canada, as well as the sale of canola oil in Eastern Canada. It’s something that Ian Boxall, the president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, said confirms what he and the organization have been […]

It’s likely that Bunge Ltd.’s US$8.2-billion deal to acquire Viterra Ltd. would “substantially” reduce competition in the grain and canola oil markets, the Competition Bureau says. In a report to Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez released Tuesday, the bureau said the deal is likely to hurt competition in markets for grain purchasing in Western Canada as well as […]

Beginning Tuesday, travelers 12 and older wanting to board a plane or train in Canada, or to enter Canada, will have to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. The policy came into effect on October 30, but since then there has been a grace period where a negative molecular test no older than 72 hours would […]

The Transportation Safety Board has released its investigation report of a West Wind Aviation plane that crashed almost four years ago. It was December 13th, 2017 that the aircraft crashed shortly after take off at the Fond-du-Lac Airport in northern Saskatchewan where 22 passengers and three crew members on board were injured, ten of them […]

At the end of January, the federal government revised its list of airports that have official “international” designations. When the updated list of 13 came out, both Regina and Saskatoon were not on it. Regina Airport Authority President and CEO James Bogusz spoke with reporters on Monday and said this is not just the loss […]

Already in a fight to keeps it’s air traffic control tower, the Regina Airport Authority could now be facing the possibility of losing it’s “international” designation. M.P for Regina-Wascana, Michael Kram, said a Transport Canada document he obtained listing 13 international airports, did not include either Regina or Saskatoon. Kram says it would be very […]

The federal government is rolling out new measures to bolster rail safety following an investigation into a fatal 2017 incident at a Saskatchewan railway yard. Under an order from Transport Minister Marc Garneau, railway companies must adopt updated practices for employees who conduct switching duties — taking railcars from one track to another — that […]

Track maintenance could be the culprit when it comes to a pair of train derailments near the town of Guernsey in a three month stretch late last year and early this. The Transportation Safety Board has written a letter to Transport Canada regarding rail safety.  It says in both cases the suspected causes appears to […]

Transport Canada says it will require all commercial drivers to have electronic logging devices — one of the recommendations out of a coroner’s report into the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. The federal department says it will make the tamper-resistant devices mandatory on June 12, 2021. “These new mandatory logging devices in commercial vehicles will improve […]