TORONTO and Hamilton transport authority Metrolinx has purchased an additional 125 Bombardier double-deck coaches for the the Go Transit commuter rail network in a deal worth $C 428m ($US 328m).

CALGARY Transit's new fleet of Siemens S200 high-floor LRVs entered passenger service on the city's CTrain light rail network on July 5 in time for the annual Calgary Stampede.

CDPQ Infra, Canada, published two requests for qualification on June 28 for its $C 5.5bn ($US 4.26bn) Metropolitan Electric Network (REM) project in Montreal to qualify candidates to bid for two contracts to build and equip the automated rail network.

THE Canadian province of Ontario is to provide $C 205m ($US 160m) to help advance work for the Yonge North subway extension and the proposed Relief Line which is designed to help relieve congestion on Toronto Transit Commission's (TTC) Yonge Line.

THE premier of the Canadian state of Ontario Mrs Kathleen Wynne visited the site of the future Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station in York on June 6 to mark the completion of tracklaying on the Toronto-York Spadina subway extension.

THE premier of Ontario Mrs Kathleen Wynne announced on June 3 that the Canadian province will provide $C 1bn ($US 770m) towards Ottawa's $C 3bn Stage 2 LRT project, which will add 30km and 19 stations to the capital's urban rail network.

ROCKY Mountaineer which operates tour trains in western Canada and Washington state has awarded a contract to Stadler to build 10 double-deck passenger coaches for delivery in 2018.

CANADA's national passenger train operator, Via Rail, has reported an increase in both traffic and revenue in its annual results for 2015, which it says is the first time it has achieved such growth in seven years.

THE Canadian city of Edmonton officially launched construction of the first phase of the light rail Valley Line on April 22, when the city's mayor Mr Don Iverson was joined by federal minister of infrastructure and communities Mr Amarjeet Sohi, Alberta minister of transportation and infrastructure Mr Brian Mason, and representatives of indigenous communities for a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of Muttart station.

PROPOSING a radical new business model, Quebec's huge public pension fund announced on April 22 that it will directly undertake construction and operation of a 67km, double track, electrified and fully-automated rail network serving Montreal and its immediate hinterland.