HALIFAX – The CEO of Via Rail says although the Crown corporation has big plans for modernizing its passenger service in the Maritimes, it needs to ensure its trains run on time.
Mario Péloquin told a Halifax business audience today that the “elephant in the room” is the fact the Montreal-to-Halifax train known as the Ocean doesn’t run on time.
Péloquin says that’s because Via Rail doesn’t own the tracks, which are primarily used for freight trains that have priority on that line.
He says talks are continuing with CN Rail and other partners to improve the arrangement.
Despite the ongoing problem, Péloquin says the Ocean manages to bring 13,000 passengers to Halifax every year and he says there is room to grow that number.
He says part of the solution is selling the train as an environmentally sustainable option through the use of new state-of-the-art trains the corporation hopes to use in about five years time.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 23, 2024.
Police in Waterloo Region say they are investigating a crash that killed three people and injured three others.
Police say a Tesla and a Dodge Ram collided Monday morning in Wellesley Township near Kitchener, Ont.
They say the 25-year-old Tesla driver, along with two of the car’s occupants, were killed and one passenger was taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.
The 28-year-old Dodge Ram driver and his passenger were also taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.
Roads in the area were closed for several hours as police investigated.
Anyone who may have witnessed the collision or have dash camera video footage is asked to call the Waterloo Regional Police Traffic Services Unit.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 23, 2024.
MELROSE, NEW BRUNSWICK – Police say a man and a woman from Charlottetown were killed Sunday afternoon when their minivan collided with a pickup truck in Melrose, N.B.
RCMP say the van collided head-on with the truck, which was hauling a trailer along the Trans-Canada Highway near the Confederation Bridge connecting mainland Canada with Prince Edward Island.
A news release says investigators believe the van was heading east when it crossed the centre lane of the highway into the path of the oncoming truck.
It says the 43-year-old male driver of the van and the 37-year-old woman in the passenger seat died at the scene.
Police say the driver and sole occupant of the pickup truck was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
The Mounties say officials will conduct autopsies on the man and woman to determine exactly how they died.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 23, 2024.
Donald Trump is trumpeting that migrants from all over the world are flooding the US-Mexican border and moving in mass to various small communities that are unprepared for the onslaught. This is a historical tool used by almost every grassroots politician in existence. The so-called “big lie” has been used to recruit support from established communities by politicians worldwide.
The Holocaust is an example of how politicians with various objectives find a national scapegoat(Jews) and claim this group of outsiders are enemies from within, fanning the flames of hate, envy, jealousy and greed until entire communities act as oppressors and murders, or simply stand by while these atrocities happen. In Donald Trump’s world, the @15-20million illegal migrants that live in America should be kicked out of the USA. There are no places for them in America except perhaps on the corporate farms of California, the South and the Mid-West. Cheap labour runs a Trumpian World. Otherwise, all these cat and dog-eating migrants need to get out and stay out right Donald?
After the American Civil War, when the slaves were emancipated, these homeless, poor people migrated northward. They came face to face with similar attitudes from their Yankee liberators who had no problem punishing the South by liberating their main source of labour, but hell if these people are moving into our neighbourhood! Every politician without any principles or morals views migrants as an excuse and source of wealth and power. Make people believe they are all criminals, evil in carnet and threats and what do you get? Donations, political support and the chance to gain political power by managing the situation they created.
This sort of thing is happening right now in Gaza where a few hundred Hamas fighters have the might of Israel trying to exterminate them, and all the while millions of Palestinians are driven away from their homes. Russia views the LGBTQ Community as dangerous outsiders who either came from abroad or were influenced by Western Immoral Corruption. The horrors of Syria drove millions of Syrians and North Africans into the EU, where they are trying to establish themselves. These migrants are the cause celeb for all extremist right-wing groups throughout the EU, all having one singular plan, to drive these migrants into the Sea and out of the EU.
Migrants were treated horribly in Canada and the USA, often ghettoized and isolated for their own protection. That was then, and this is now. The great majority of us respect migrants and see how important they are to the prosperity of our economies and community growth. The high costs to provide for these people are incurred by society for a time. Hopes of integration and transformation of these people encourage us to celebrate new neighbours. That is the difference between a welcoming society and a societal inertia that closes people’s minds and hearts evoking fear and mistrust.
There is a reason people are fearful enough that they become possibly open to misinformation developing into hatred for the other. Mass misinformation is a key tool in driving a nation towards isolation and the grand puppeteer can be Donald Trump or Joseph Goebbels. Goebbels once said, “the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle stays in their minds, confining itself to a few points and be constantly repeated over and over again”. Now who has been carrying out those instructions during the present American election? Hint, he’s known as the Donald.
Migrants build economies and are pivotal parts of a society. The cross-benefit of migrants being welcomed into society far exceeds their threat factor. what do you think?
