CANADIAN Pacific Railway (CP) announced on October 20 that it has terminated exploratory discussions with CSX Corporation on a potential merger which would have created North America's largest freight railway.

TORONTO and Hamilton transit authority Metrolinx has announced it will acquire a 53km stretch of Canadian National's Guelph Subdivision from Georgetown to Kitchener in a deal worth $C 76m ($US 69m).

A GROUNDBREAKING ceremony was held on August 21 to mark the official start of construction on the first light rail line in Waterloo, Ontario.

CHRONIC negligence by Canada's transport regulator has been identified by the country's accident investigator as the primary underlying cause of the derailment and explosion of a Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway (MM&A) crude oil train at Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, on July 6 2013, which killed 47 people.

THE FIRST two of 18 DMU cars being supplied by Sumitomo to Toronto transport authority Metrolinx for use on the Union Pearson Express (UP Express) airport rail link have arrived in Canada.

CANADIAN Pacific Railway (CP) has reported net income of $C 371m ($US 344m) for the second quarter of 2014, a 47% increase on the $C 252m net income recorded for the second quarter of 2013.

THE Canadian government announced on May 26 it will allocate $C 150m ($US 138m) towards the expansion of the light rail network in Edmonton through the New Building Canada Fund's Provincial-Territorial Infrastructure programme.

THE Region of Waterloo, Ontario, has reached financial close on a 33-year PPP contract to design, build, finance, operate, and maintain the city's first light rail line.

ONTARIO's minister for transport and infrastructure Mr Glen Murray says the provincial government plans to develop a 185km high-speed service between Toronto, Waterloo, Kitchener and London, with a four-year environmental impact assessment and design studies for the project expected to begin this autumn.