Friends of the Rail Forum

For the past week, Tyendinaga Mohawk protesters in Ontario have defied a court injunction and blocked railway tracks in support Wet’suwet’en activists in British Columbia who are locked in a standoff over a multibillion-dollar natural gas pipeline that would cross through their traditional territory...

A major Canadian rail company is shutting down trans-continental train services amid blockades protesting a pipeline in British Columbia. CN Rail says it will be forced to shut down its eastern network, which will effectively stop all cross-country freight trains. The stoppage will also affect passenger trains nationwide, which use CN tracks...