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Tech Vendors Prepare for Canada’s Move to E-Logs
Trucks cross the U.S.-Canada border via the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario. (Cole Burston/Bloomberg News)
The trucking industry’s migration to federally mandated electronic logging devices is complete in the United States, but that transition is still a work in progress in Canada.
September 10, 2021Canada Imposes Wildfire Rules on Trains
Canadian Pacific Railway locomotives in the Fraser Canyon south of Lytton, B.C., on July 3. (James MacDonald/Bloomberg News)
Canada’s transportation authority imposed new rules on its two largest railroad companies operating in wildfire-ravaged British Columbia as it investigates whether a freight train caused a blaze that destroyed a village two weeks ago.
July 12, 2021Canadian Provinces Team With North Dakota to Vaccinate Cross-Border Truckers
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallster and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burnum (on screen). (Manitoba Government via YouTube)
Leaders from North Dakota and two Canadian provinces have reached agreements to offer COVID-19 vaccinations to Canada-based truckers who cross the border to deliver goods.
May 4, 2021Canada May Run Out of Warehouse Space This Year
A Rogers Sugar Inc. facility in Vancouver, B.C. Landlords in Canada may have to consider converting retail and office buildings into logistics hubs. (James MacDonald/Bloomberg News)
Canada is in danger of running out of warehouse space by the end of the year, thanks to the boom in e-commerce sparked by the pandemic.
April 6, 2021Canada Sees Record First Quarter for M&A
A Canadian Pacific Railway locomotive pulls a train in Calgary, Alberta. (Alex Ramadan/Bloomberg News)
Mergers and acquisitions are off to their fastest start to a year ever in Canada, driven by a combination of cheap financing for buyers, high valuations for sellers and an improving economic outlook that’s encouraging companies to make major moves.
March 31, 2021Canada’s Carbon Tax Upheld by Top Court, Cementing Green Agenda
Justin Trudeau announces a carbon-tax increase at an Ottawa news conference in November 2020. (David Kawai/Bloomberg News)
Canada’s efforts to combat climate change scored a major victory after the country’s top court ruled that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national carbon tax is constitutional
March 25, 2021Export Boom Drives Canada’s Largest Trade Surplus Since 2014
Containers sit at the Port of Vancouver in Vancouver, British Columbia, in November 2020. (Jennifer Gauthier/Bloomberg News)
Canada’s trade sector unexpectedly recorded its largest surplus in more than six years on across-the-board increases in exports.
March 5, 2021Clarified Guidance Supports Health Care Access for Cross-Border Truckers
Commercial trucks drive across the Ambassador Bridge on the Canada-U.S. border in Windsor, Ontario. (Cole Burston/Bloomberg News)
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has clarified its policy on treating truck drivers who cross the border from the United States into Canada for essential operations.
October 21, 2020Kenan Advantage Group Acquires Canadian-Based Paul’s Hauling
A North Canton Transfer truck carrying fuel in a Kenan Advantage Group tanker trailer. (Kenan Advantage Group)
Kenan Advantage Group has completed its acquisition of Paul’s Hauling Ltd.
October 2, 2020Kenan Advantage Group Acquires Canadian Firm Beaulac
Kenan Advantage Group
Kenan Advantage Group has completed the acquisition of Les Distributions Carl Beaulac Inc., the company announced Sept. 18.
September 18, 2020