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Trudeau says government will have update shortly on solution to rail lockout
OTTAWA - The federal government will have "more to say shortly" on what it's doing to resolve a lockout at Canada's two biggest rail companies, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Canadian National Ra...
Aug 22, 2024
US government indicts Guatemalan national on smuggling charges over deaths of 53 migrants in trailer
U.S. authorities on Thursday announced the indictment of a Guatemalan national who they say helped coordinate a human smuggling effort that ended with 53 migrants dead in a sweltering tractor-trailer ...
Aug 22, 2024
New deputy commissioner heads Alberta RCMP
In a formal ceremony on August 21, new Deputy Commissioner Rob Hill took command of the Alberta RCMP, taking over from Curtis Zablocki.Hill has served with the RCMP for 26 years. Most recently, Hill w...
Aug 22, 2024
National rail shutdown begins as employees locked out at both major Canadian railways
In a first for Canada, freight traffic on its two largest railways on simultaneously ground to a halt overnight, threatening to upend supply chains trying to move forward from pandemic-related disrupt...
Aug 22, 2024
Municipalities say Alberta oilpatch policies harming tax base, public interest
Alberta's United Conservative government is trying to increase production from the province's declining conventional oil and gas fields at the expense of local tax bases, environmental oversight and t...
Aug 22, 2024
Missouri Supreme Court blocks agreement that would have halted execution
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) - The Missouri Supreme Court has blocked an agreement that would have spared the life of death row inmate Marcellus Williams and instead ordered a hearing to proceed on Williams' inn...
Aug 22, 2024
Rail work stoppage shuts down some Ontario, Quebec commuter rail lines
TORONTO - Bewildered commuters were turned away from shuttered rail lines on Thursday as an unprecedented railway lockout upset travel plans for more than 30,000 daily riders in some of Canada's large...
Aug 22, 2024
The latest developments in the lockout at Canada's two biggest railways
In the culmination of months of increasingly bitter negotiations, Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. locked out 9,300 engineers, conductors and yard workers after the ...
Aug 22, 2024
Zelenskyy visits border area for the first time since Ukrainian forces entered Russia's Kursk region
President Voldymyr Zelenskyy toured the northeastern Ukrainian region of Sumy on Thursday in his first visit to the border area since his forces entered Russian territory more than two weeks ago. Duri...
Aug 22, 2024
Gilma becomes a powerful Category 3 hurricane and is forecast to strengthen as it stays at sea
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Gilma strengthened into a powerful Category 3 hurricane Thursday in the eastern Pacific Ocean and was forecast to remain a powerful hurricane for the next couple of days while stayi...
Aug 22, 2024