This week in Montreal, Via Rail’s President and CEO unveiled Via Rail’s ambitious 5-year strategic plan in front of a sold-out crowd at an event hosted by the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal. It was a pivotal speech at a pivotal moment for passenger rail service in Canada. President and CEO Mario Péloquin joins Global News Morning’s host Laura Casella with a one-on-one about Via Rail’s future and whether the service will ever be profitable.
A Southwest Airlines flight plunged toward the ocean off the coast of a Hawaiian island. The Boeing 737 Max 8 flew as low as 400 feet before rapidly climbing. Former pilot and aviation safety analyst David Soucie explains.
As her father laid sick on on a gurney in a Niagara-area emergency room, Ann-Marie Zammit reassured him he'd recover. The medical staff at the Welland, Ont., hospital had told her despite an infection, and being in the emergency department for days, CJohn didn't have a fever, his vitals were stable and they'd be conducting more tests the next morning, Zammit told CBC Hamilton in an interview. She had reason to be hopeful. Before his illness, CJohn, 88, lived independently and was his happy, heal
Given the turbulent economy over the past five years, finding a car that lasts longer than 200,000 miles isn't a matter of pride -- it's a near-necessity. Thankfully, cars last much longer today than...
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said Sunday the Supreme Court is “readying to fundamentally rewrite the Second Amendment” after striking down a federal ban on bump stocks.
The World War II mystery of what happened to a Finnish passenger plane after it was shot down over the Baltic Sea by Soviet bombers appears to finally be solved more than eight decades later. The plane was carrying American and French diplomatic couriers in June 1940 when it was downed just days before Moscow annexed the Baltic states. All nine people on board the plane were killed, including the two-member Finnish crew and the seven passengers — an American diplomat, two French, two Germans, a Swede and a dual Estonian-Finnish national.
The Northbound lanes of Toronto’s Don Valley Parkway were closed Sunday when a man died after falling from Leaside bridge. The driver of the vehicle was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Richard Holtorf was grilled by a news anchor about funding an abortion decades ago but voting for legislation to restrict access.
OTTAWA — National Defence Minister Bill Blair's office is defending the decision to send a Canadian ship to Cuba where it docked alongside some of Russia's fleet, calling it a "carefully" planned move to increase its presence in the region.
From her archive, Christiane Amanpour’s report on the deplorable treatment of India’s underclass, and the origins of a political movement that delivered India’s shock election results.
HANOI (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Hanoi this week, multiple officials said, highlighting Communist-ruled Vietnam's loyalty to Russia and triggering a U.S. rebuke. The visit follows Hanoi avoiding a Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland last weekend, while sending its deputy foreign minister to a BRICS meeting in Russia earlier last week. Putin, who was sworn in for a fifth time just over a month ago, is expected to meet Vietnam's new president, To Lam, and other leaders during the two-day visit to Hanoi on Wednesday and Thursday, officials said.
According to Kelley Blue Book (KBB), the average cost of a new car is $47,401, but the true cost of ownership is much higher than that. When you purchase a vehicle, you're not just paying the listing...
Interested in capping off your trip to Hong Kong with a long weekend in Beijing or Shanghai? A new high-speed sleeper train service cuts the overnight travel time by half.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Republicans rejected Sen. Mike Braun’s choice for lieutenant governor on Saturday, instead nominating a podcasting pastor with far-right views to be his running mate.
The Supreme Court’s majority struck down a ban on the device a shooter used to commit the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history, in a bitterly contested argument over the meaning of a term.
"What Justice Thomas is engaged in is just a grift... Justice Alito is openly displaying affiliation with political causes in public"
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley posted online announcing the death of her father on Father’s Day. “This morning I had to say goodbye to the smartest, sweetest, kindest, most decent man I have ever known,” Haley posted on the social media platform X, along with a photo of her hugging her father. She said…
The McLaren Artura Spider is the convertible version of the plug-in hybrid supercar. We drove it in Monaco because of course we did.
A 2008 Suzuki SX4 Crossover found in a Colorado wrecking yard.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A media organization is due in court Monday after publishing details from leaked documents about the shooter who killed six people at a Nashville elementary school in March 2023, while the outlet sues for those records and others to be released to the public.
Democrats have pushed for Supreme Court code of ethics but the issue sees little hope of passage in Washington
