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Transportation
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Teamsters ask Manitoba medical examiner for inquest into fatal train derailment
THOMPSON, Man. – A union is calling for an inquest into the death of a railway employee in a northern Manitoba train derailment. A Hudson Bay Railway freight train went off the tracks on Sept. 15 near Ponton. The Teamsters…
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Air Canada pilots say near collision should prompt better action on pilot fatigue
TORONTO – A near-collision of an Air Canada jet at San Francisco’s airport should be a wake-up call for the federal government to adequately address pilot fatigue for overnight flights, the union representing the airline’s pilots said Wednesday. “I don’t…
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U.S. safety officials fault Air Canada pilots for last year’s near disaster
United States federal safety officials blame two Air Canada pilots for coming within three to six metres of crashing their jetliner into a plane on the ground last year in San Francisco. The Air Canada pilots were apparently confused because…
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‘Traumatic event:’ Edmonton bus driver stabbed up to 13 times, teen arrested
EDMONTON – The head of a local transit union says an Edmonton bus driver was stabbed up to 13 times after he refused a ride to a passenger. The 65-year old driver was taken to hospital with multiple injuries in…
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CN cuts cheque to help cover cost of fighting Winnipeg brush fires
WINNIPEG – Canadian National Railway says it’s sending a cheque to the City of Winnipeg to cover firefighting costs after a series of brush fires suspected of being caused by a CN train. The city confirms it sent an invoice…
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Beavers may have caused fatal train derailment in Manitoba: safety board
THOMPSON, Man. – A Transportation Safety Board investigator says beavers may have contributed to the train derailment in northern Manitoba that left one railway worker dead and another injured. The train went off the tracks on a washed-out trestle bridge…
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Federal government accelerates phase out of rupture prone rail tankers
OTTAWA – The federal government is speeding up the timelines for the removal of rupture-prone tank cars from Canadian railroads. Ottawa has taken steps to phase out certain types of tank cars following the deadly train derailment and explosions in…
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Fuel from derailed locomotive in Manitoba leaks into river, clean up underway
WINNIPEG – A train that derailed in northern Manitoba on Saturday that killed a railway worker is leaking diesel fuel into the Metishto River. Manitoba Sustainable Development says the fuel is from one of the locomotives. The province says spill…
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All but one of 10 workers injured in crash between bus and truck out of hospital
One person remains in hospital following a collision at a rural Saskatchewan intersection that left a bus carrying pipeline workers on its side in the ditch. Ten workers were injured when the school-type bus collided with a semi-truck hauling canola…
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One worker dead after being trapped in derailed train in Manitoba
THOMPSON, Man. – A railway worker has died and another suffered serious injuries after rescuers spent hours trying to free them from the wreckage of a derailment in northern Manitoba. The Arctic Gateway Group, which recently purchased the Hudson Bay…
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Paramedic spots part of plane that went missing in B.C. 10 months ago
REVELSTOKE, B.C. – Clear weather and “a split-second glimpse of something” that didn’t belong among the trees led to the discovery of a plane that went missing last November in southeastern B.C., says a critical care paramedic who spotted the…
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Canada sees info ‘gaps’ about dangerous goods moving through North
OTTAWA – The federal government says it doesn’t know enough about how, when and where dangerous goods move through the Canadian North, highlighting the potential risks of a major spill or other disaster. As a result, Transport Canada acknowledges the…
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Pilots in mid air collision over Quebec mall didn’t respect altitude rules: TSB
MONTREAL – The Transportation Safety Board says two pilots involved in a fatal mid-air collision over a busy suburban Montreal shopping mall in March 2017 weren’t adhering to altitude restrictions. In a report released today, Canada’s transport safety watchdog says…
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RCMP say two dead in plane crash in rugged area southwest of Calgary
KANANASKIS, Alta. – RCMP say two men died Wednesday in the crash of a small plane in a rugged mountainous region southwest of Calgary. Police say the twin-engine aircraft went down around 1:30 p.m. There were eyewitness reports that the…
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Fishing boat on automatic pilot before colliding with boat in fatal crash:report
BEACH POINT, P.E.I. – A report by the Transportation Safety Board into a fishing boat collision that resulted in two deaths says one of the boats was on autopilot at the time of the crash. The findings say both the…
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Ottawa considered speeding up new seatbelt rule after Broncos crash: documents
The father of a teen who died in a crash that killed 16 people on a junior hockey team bus is questioning why Ottawa is waiting two years to make seatbelts on new highway buses mandatory. Documents obtained by The…
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Rail manager guilty in case of train left on B.C. mountainside without handbrakes
REVELSTOKE, B.C. – A manager with Canadian Pacific Railway has been found guilty for his role in illegally parking a train carrying dangerous materials on a mountainside near Revelstoke, B.C. A B.C. provincial court judge found Tim McClelland, director of…
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Police, sheriffs vehicles, involved in sideswipe crash near Edmonton
LEDUC, Alta. – A number of people are in hospital after a highway crash involving an RCMP vehicle, two others belonging to Alberta Sheriffs and a civilian sport-utility vehicle. The accident happened around 9:00 a.m. Friday along the southbound lanes…
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No easy ride for ride hailing in B.C. as province delays implementation again
VANCOUVER – The British Columbia government says it will ease into allowing ride-hailing services in the province, laying the groundwork for the new rides to enter the market as early as the fall of 2019. In the meantime, Transport Minister…
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No danger after freight train derailment near Quebec Ontario border
Quebec’s public security minister offered assurances Tuesday that nothing leaked into a nearby river after a Canadian Pacific freight train derailment just east of the Ontario border. The Quebec Environment Department says 25 of the 95 rail cars derailed near…