Canada

Federal agency Transport Canada and Minister of Transport Marc Garneau have made a string of rail-related infrastructure funding announcements in recent weeks. These announcements come as politicians gear up for the federal election on October 20, sources said. The rail infrastructure projects...

Consumer packaged goods cannabis company Hexo Corp (NYSE: HEXO) announced Wednesday its dried flower cannabis products can now be purchased by consumers in Ontario. Hexo reached an agreement with Ontario's government to sell its products at the Ontario Cannabis Store. Consumers can purchase...

Menzies Aviation acquired GTO Global Logistics, a Vancouver-based logistics provider and customs brokerage, establishing a presence in the Canadian air freight market.  Scotland-based Menzies, which announced the acquisition on August 12, will integrate GTO into its cargo forwarding arm, Air...

The Canadian government will invest C$18.5 million to improve trucking operations at the Port of Montreal, and alleviate the congestion accompanying record volumes of cargo.  The investment, equivalent to nearly US$14 million, will fund a digital logistics system, a bridge, electronic signs and an...

Maple Leaf Motoring isa weekly rundown of developments in the world of Canadian transportation. This week: Examining the decline in transport employment; Quebec sues over fatal tanker truck crash; Cervus looks at acquisitions; and Day & Ross opens a new terminal.  Transportation and...

A judge cleared the way for Canadian engineering and construction conglomerate SNC-Lavalin (TSX: SNC) to sell a 10 percent stake in the company that operates the Highway 407 Electronic Toll Route (ETR) in the Toronto area for C$3.25 billion. SNC-Lavalin announced the Ontario ruling on August 7,...

As the Trump administration prepares to impose more tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese goods, a Canadian firm is banking on growing its business of helping e-commerce companies avoid them.  Stalco, a Toronto-based third party logistics provider, began offering a service in 2018 that allows firms...

Nearly twice as much freight by volume and by spend travels from the United States to Canada than the other way around on Transplace's network. "The disparity is pretty glaring," said Jeff Thomas, senior vice president of capacity services at the Texas-based transportation management provider....

Good day, The Trump administration plan to allow imports of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada has a serious supply-side problem. Canada's drug supply could run out within six months if 20 percent of U.S. prescriptions came from north of the border, according to a 2018 study by Marv Shepherd...

Canada's gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.2 percent in May, fueled by a recovery in manufacturing, Statistics Canada reported on July 31. Auto manufacturing jumped by 5.7 percent as production levels returned to normal. Increases of 5.4 percent in rail and 1.2 percent in trucking led to...

Maple Leaf Motoring is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of Canadian transportation. This week: TFI buys speciality transportation firm, Mullen talks U.S. drug rules for cross-border, and CTA pushes for province-level ELD mandate. TFI International (TSX:TFI), which reported record...

France's parliament voted to ratify a free-trade agreement between the European Union and Canada, overcoming strong opposition on fears it could hurt farmers. A divided National Assembly voted 266 to 213 on July 23 to back the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), which eliminates...

BRP Inc. recently expanded the capacity at two of its production facilities in Mexico, where it builds its powersport and personal watercraft vehicles. The Quebec-based company's increased production comes at a time when the market for recreational powersport and water-sport vehicles is estimated...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau likely could not have had a better place to show European Union officials the benefits of a free trade agreement than the Port of Montreal.  Montreal's European volumes increased by 6.6 percent in 2018, the first full year that the Comprehensive Economic and...

Aurora Cannabis Inc (NYSE: ACB) deserves credit for building industry leading scale and strong margins, but Bank of America thinks the company is burning fast at a concerning pace. The Analyst Bank of America's Christopher Carey downgraded Aurora's U.S.-listed stock from Buy to Neutral with...