TRANSPORT

REGINA – Rural roads in Saskatchewan are getting a funding boost this week with more money from the Rural Integrated Roads for Growth program At an announcement at the office of Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities in Regina the Government of Saskatchewan and SARM confirmed there will be $16.8 million in funding going to 13 rural […]

Bargaining between workers and the country’s two largest railways is set to resume Thursday morning after breaking off shortly before midnight — a deadline that left workers locked out by Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City in their first-ever simultaneous work stoppage. Following months of increasingly bitter negotiations, traffic on the freight railways […]

Airlines executives offered a mix of explanation and apology Thursday, as they laid the blame for the chaotic holiday travel season on Mother Nature. Representatives from Sunwing Airlines, WestJet and Air Canada appeared before the federal transport committee to explain to MPs what happened in the days before and after Christmas, when thousands of passengers […]

Canadian exports of crude oil by rail fell to another eight-year low in July despite the gradual recovery of North American fuel demand from low levels due to measures taken to control the COVID-19 pandemic. The Canada Energy Regulator says rail shipments of oil in July fell to about 39,000 barrels per day, down from […]

The Canadian cattle industry is getting a two-year delay on enforcement of new transport regulations set to come into effect in February. The federal government says the two year transition period will enable the cattle sector to complete research on infrastructure, education and awareness of livestock transport. Saskatchewan Stock Growers President Bill Huber says his […]