Garneau expressed dismay this week at a council meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization that more than three months have passed since Iran told the council it would give the flight-data and cockpit voice recorders to Ukraine within 14 days.

Canada's transport minister says it's been 92 days since Iran told the UN aviation council that it would give the flight data and cockpit voice recorders to Ukraine.

Effective at noon on Thursday, airline flight crew and airport workers will be required to wear non-medical marks, in addition to the existing requirement for passengers.

The measures are an extension to cruise ship and passenger vessel rules that Transport Canada implemented earlier this spring as the novel coronavirus spread globally.

An effort to feed B.C. transport drivers during the COVID-19 pandemic is picking up speed. 

Transport Minister Marc Garneau announced that starting Monday all commercial marine vessels with the capacity of 12 or more passengers will stop non-essential activities, such as tourism or recreation.

Cruise ships carrying more than 500 people won't be able to dock in Canada until at least July.

Violence used to be rare on board the world-famous transcontinental Canadian train, say Via Rail employees. This changed after Greyhound cancelled most of its bus routes in Western Canada.

Transport Minister Marc Garneau is promoting the "Strategy for Safer Skies" — a Canadian-led multilateral effort to improve co-ordination, communication and intelligence-sharing between civil aviation agencies and airlines around the world.

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped in front of cameras last week to declare that barricades on rail lines and other major transportation routes had to come down, the move had been decided almost two days before.