Transportation

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.

A provincial plan to access the Ring of Fire may be lacking, but for almost three years the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) has been quietly working on a major pan-northern planning exercise to support future regional economic development.

A report to restructure the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC) has been delivered to Northern Development and Mines Minister Michael Gravelle.

United Airlines is cutting its direct link between Thunder Bay and Chicago, effective April 24.

An American passenger rail advocacy group is weighing on Canadian National Railway’s (CN) decision to cut passenger service between Sault Ste. Marie and Hearst by April. Ross Capon, president of the Washington, D.C.