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Fatal derailment prompts petitions urging feds to end private railway policing
Two petitions aimed at holding rail companies accountable for the safety of their employees, the public and environment were presented in the House of Commons on Monday by NDP MP Niki Ashton, who cited CBC’s recent coverage of issues within Canadian Pacific and the Transportation Safety Board.
CBC Investigates
CP threatened lawsuit against safety watchdog after investigator spoke out about deadly crash
The lead safety investigator for a deadly derailment in the mountains of B.C. was pulled off the case after Canadian Pacific Railway threatened to sue him and his bosses for suggesting the RCMP should look into potential criminal negligence by the railway, CBC News has learned.
CBC Investigates
CP Rail leaves mountain train parked without crew or handbrakes near site of deadly 2019 runaway crash
Canadian Pacific Railway is under fire after leaving a 2.5-kilometre-long grain train parked without handbrakes last month high in the mountains of eastern B.C., above the site of a deadly runaway two years ago that killed three employees.
CBC Investigates
Canadian banks, insurance firms owe $1.2B in employee vacation pay, class actions allege
Five proposed class-action lawsuits have been launched against banks and insurance companies since early 2019 seeking a total of $1.2 billion for vacation pay that's allegedly owed current and former employees.
CBC Investigates
1,500 flights and rising as Canadians seek sunny escapes despite surging COVID-19 crisis
Thousands of Canadians are thumbing their noses at government advice to stay home and hopping international flights to sunny destinations even as the COVID-19 crisis worsens. Canadian air carriers operated more than 1,500 flights between Canada and 18 popular vacation spots since Oct. 1.
The Fifth Estate
RCMP launch probe into Canadian Pacific runaway train crash that killed 3 crew members
The RCMP’s major crimes unit in British Columbia has opened a criminal investigation into a fatal runaway train crash and allegations of a coverup at Canadian Pacific Railway, following a derailment that killed three crew members near Field, B.C., in February 2019.
The Fifth Estate
Coverup allegation in deadly B.C. train crash prompts calls for Trudeau, RCMP to intervene
Families of three rail workers killed in a crash in the Rockies of eastern B.C. almost two years ago are calling on the prime minister to intervene after a former Canadian Pacific Railway police officer alleged his superiors obstructed his investigation.
Workplace compensation claims reflect toll COVID-19 has taken on Canada's workers
CBC News reached out to provincial workplace compensation boards across the country and found that more than 26,000 claims have been filed for contracting COVID-19 at work.
The Fifth Estate
CP Rail failed to identify hazards linked to deadly derailment, Transport Canada finds
Transport Canada has concluded CP Rail failed to properly identify safety hazards in the B.C. mountains following a workplace fatality investigation into a train derailment which killed three workers, CBC News has learned.
We looked at every confirmed COVID-19 case in Canada. Here's what we found
CBC News has dug deep into the data on over 120,000 COVID-19 cases collected by the Public Health Agency of Canada to examine how the illness affects the young, the elderly, men and women in order to better understand what's most likely to land you in hospital — or worse.