Rail Safety
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Experts urge caution amid rising rail fatalities in CanadaRail fatalities hit a 10-year high across Canada last year, with trespassing cited as a major cause. Now, advocates are highlighting the dangers of encampments near the railways.CanadaSep 15, 2025
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Lac-Mégantic marks 12th anniversary as calls for improved rail safety mountOn Sunday, the town lowered flags to half-mast, laid flowers and organized a moment of silence to commemorate the July 6, 2013, tragedy.CanadaJul 6, 2025
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Biden surveys cleanup in East Palestine, Ohio a year after train derailmentBiden praised federal cleanup efforts and urged Congress to strengthen rail safety laws, but did not explain why it took more than a year for him to visit the community.U.S. NewsFeb 16, 2024
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Manitoba may re-examine rail relocation following train derailmentA train derailment closed a stretch of a busy Winnipeg thoroughfare Friday and prompted Manitoba's PC government to refloat the idea of relocating rail lines outside the city.TrendingApr 21, 2023
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Train derails east of Edmonton, TSB says ‘no dangerous goods involved’Nineteen hopper cars from a train loaded with grain derailed east of Edmonton on Wednesday morning.CanadaApr 5, 2023
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‘This is their mess’: U.S. orders rail company to pay for Ohio train spill cleanupThe head of the U.S. government's environmental agency and President Joe Biden said Norfolk Southern must cover the costs of cleaning up the toxic spill area in East Palestine.U.S. NewsFeb 21, 2023
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25-year-old man struck and killed by train in Chilliwack, B.C.Police said they did not suspect criminality in the collision, and that the BC Coroners Service was investigating the death.CanadaJan 23, 2023
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Operation Clear Track going virtual this year for Rail Safety WeekOperation Clear Track, which happens annually during Rail Safety Week, aims to reduce the number of railway crossings and trespassing incidents in Canada and the U.S.CanadaSep 22, 2020
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Marked increase in trespassing on rail lines worries MetrolinxMetrolinx is reminding people of the dangers of being on train tracks heading into fall, as GO train service gets set to increase in frequency.LifestyleSep 1, 2020
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Lawsuit settled in fatal wheelchair accident at New Brunswick train crossingCourt documents claimed Steven Harel was using the wheelchair in a "safe and prudent" manner when it became stuck at the railway crossing in July 2016 and that he waited an "excruciatingly long time" before the train hit and killed him.CanadaOct 8, 2019
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