Category Canada

OTTAWA — Business groups and provincial premiers are calling on the Liberal government to end a labour dispute that has brought the country’s rail lines to a grinding halt. CN and CPKC, the country’s biggest freight rail companies, locked out…

Canada’s Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon is intervening to end a work stoppage that saw this country’s two largest railways grind to a standstill Thursday, by forcing the parties into binding arbitration. Announcing the major move from Parliament Hill, MacKinnon said…