Fifth in a Series: In the first four articles in this series, as well as in a separate article that focused on rail transit and tourist railroads in Canada, I described my adventures on rails during a ...

VIA Rail Canada (VIA Rail) today announced that it has been informed that an employee of its Montréal call center has tested positive for COVID-19 today. This employee had been working at home since ...

Via Rail is introducing non-stop trains between Montreal and Toronto with the aim of providing faster transit, but some communities between Canada's two largest cities feel left out. A three-month ...

Contract talks between VIA Rail Canada and Unifor have broken off, the union reported June 2. The federal conciliation period ended May 31; under Canadian labor law, following a 21-day cooling-off ...

All aboard! If you've been thinking about switching tracks in 2025, listen up. VIA Rail is hiring all over Canada right now, and there are several high-paying jobs in Montreal that could set you up ...

One-hundred seventy-five passengers on a Via Rail train travelling from Halifax to Montreal were forced to disembark in a central Nova Scotia community on Sunday after The Ocean experienced mechanical ...

Canada has been talking about high-speed rail since the 1980s, yet travelers between Toronto and Montreal still crawl along at speeds that would embarrass most European commuter trains. While ...