Transportation

With an eye on fostering growth in the natural resource sector, the Quebec government is committing $19.2 million towards a feasibility study for a rail line to reach its remote iron ore deposits in the Labrador Trough.

Ground broke on May 16 on the site of a new, $8.9-million International Bridge toll plaza in Sault Ste. Marie, MI.

Wisk Air Helicopters of Thunder Bay has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with CreeWest GP on a joint venture opportunity to provide rotary services to First Nation communities along the James Bay and Hudson’s Bay Coast.

The Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC) wants Queen’s Park to do its homework before unilaterally deciding next time to sell off any Crown corporations or impose legislation that hurts Northern businesses and industry.

Passenger rail service in the Algoma district generates between $38 million and $48 million in annual economic activity.

Bearskin Airlines is slashing airfares on its northeastern Ontario routes between Kapuskasing, Timmins and Sudbury .

The federal government is extending funding for one year so that CN Rail can continue operating the Algoma Central Rail (ACR) passenger line between Sault Ste. Marie and Hearst. Federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt was in Sault Ste.

The Wynne government is tying up a controversial loose end prior to an election call by announcing that the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC) will stay in public hands.

A softening in the mining and southern Ontario high-tech industries can be attributed to Bearskin Airlines dropping service to Ottawa and Kitchener-Waterloo on April 1, and reducing flights to the major Northern Ontario cities.

Stakeholders have one month to delay CN Railway’s decision to stop running passenger service between Sault Ste. Marie and Hearst. In January, the company announced that, because $2.