Via Rail Cancellation

• Some Via Rail trains in Ontario delayed, cancelled as winter storm continues

  In a statement emailed to Global News, Via Rail said "due to extreme weather conditions," several of its trains in the Quebec City to Windsor corridor had been immobilized.

  Traffic

  Dec 24, 2022
  
• B.C. RCMP open door to leaving Wet’suwet’en territory in effort to end rail blockades

  An internal letter to B.C. RCMP members obtained by Global News details plans to meet with the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs and discuss removing a mobile detachment on their land.

  Feb 20, 2020
  
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• Via Rail to temporarily lay off 1,000 workers amid rail blockades

  Via says it 'has no choice but to continue the cancellation of its services on a large part of its network' while rail lines in other parts of the country remain closed.

  Canada

  Feb 19, 2020
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• Hereditary chiefs say they won’t meet with ministers until RCMP detachment removed

  A small, mobile RCMP detachment in a remote area of British Columbia has become a bargaining chip in proposed talks that many hope could put an end to blockades that have disrupted rail and road traffic across the country.

  Canada

  Feb 19, 2020
• Wet’suwet’en and B.C. government have been discussing path forward for a year

  While the self-governance talks are independent from any particular project, they take on new significance as a national debate over Indigenous land rights and sovereignty flares.

  Canada

  Feb 17, 2020
• Protests over B.C. pipeline continue as Scheer calls on Trudeau to act

  Indigenous leaders in B.C.'s northwest have invited federal and B.C. politicians to meetings to find solutions.

  Canada

  Feb 14, 2020
• Anti pipeline blockades put Canada’s freight, passenger railways under stress

  More than 150 freight trains have been idled since the blockades were set up last Thursday in British Columbia and Ontario.

  Canada

  Feb 12, 2020
• Wet’suwet’en: Here’s where solidarity protests are happening across Canada

  Rallies and protests have popped up across the country, from Toronto to Ottawa to Winnipeg and Victoria.

  Canada

  Feb 10, 2020
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• B.C. pipeline protests halt VIA trains in eastern Ontario for 3rd full day

  Demonstrators set up near a railroad crossing at Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in eastern Ontario to support an Indigenous group in northern B.C. fighting the construction of a natural gas pipeline.

  Canada

  Feb 9, 2020