Via Rail passengers vented frustration about cancelled trips along the carrier’s Toronto-Ottawa and Toronto-Montreal routes, as a freight-train derailment and a messy winter storm upended their ...

Passenger train derailments that result in fatalities are still very rare in Canada, with one of the worst being more than 25 years ago. In 1986, a freight train collided with a passenger train in ...

If you want to save money on travel, VIA Rail is having a Canadian Black Friday sale. You can get discounts on routes across the country, and some fares are more than $100 off now! It was just ...

Cédryk Coderre was one of dozens of travellers left stranded on a Via Rail train for 10 hours earlier this year. As the government-owned passenger railway struggled with a mechanical failure, ...

Federal Transport Minister Omar Alghabra was not personally in contact with officials at Via Rail during the Christmas winter storm that left hundreds of passengers stranded for hours on a disabled ...

Sir John A. Macdonald, the country’s first prime minister, once said that without a railway, Canada was just a “geographical expression.” While Macdonald had the railway built to bind a nation, the ...

Via Rail is set to resume train service between Toronto and Ottawa or Montreal on Tuesday — but troubles continue for those travelling by air. Elsewhere, a state of emergency remained in Niagara ...

Via Rail has offered $31 million in travel vouchers to hundreds of thousands of passengers whose trains were more than one hour late since last fall, mostly as a result of new speed limits at rail ...

In the aftermath of the travel chaos that ensued over the holidays, Via Rail has just issued an apology to travellers affected by their December train disruptions. A few days before Christmas, a ...

The service is set to begin next month and will make it easier for those wanting to explore the continent via rail.

2:37 Relief after MPs promise to hold hearing on Sunwing and VIA Rail travel saga The chair of the federal transportation and infrastructure committee says he will call a meeting of the group to ...

Canada's national passenger rail service is currently hiring On Train Service Attendants in Ontario and Quebec. That includes ...