There are over 25,000 railway crossings in Canada, ranging from disused rail spurs to busy urban hazards. A Transport Canada list ranks them all by risk, included here in an interactive map.
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The idea of returning passenger trains to Ottawa’s beautiful downtown Union Station is very attractive. However, the current VIA station offers several key advantages for Alto that the old terminal can not match.
Some progress and some disappointing losses in Canada’s intercity transportation links in 2025.
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The fall of an empire
After 355 years, and several years of noticeable decline, Canada’s oldest corporation and last department store comes to an ignoble end.
Many people choose to go south for the winter. I went north, taking trains and buses through Northern Ontario and Manitoba.
New changes for October 2024 included improved service on Vancouver Island, new routes in Alberta, BC, and Quebec, and even more competition between Edmonton and Calgary.
A new interactive map shows the changes in passenger rail in Canada and the United States in the last 45 years. While intercity rail declined, especially in Canada, there’s been impressive growth in commuter rail services.
NOTE: Previous versions of the Ontario and Canada maps are retired; please see the new Canada Intercity Transport Map, launched March 30, 2025. This will now be the only interactive map that I will update. In 2022, I was approached by staff at Infrastructure Canada who were interested in compiling information on intercity bus services […]
With the release of the 2021 Census population data, the disparities within federal ridings and City of Toronto wards become quite stark
On February 9, data geeks across Canada rejoiced when Statistics Canada released the first round of data from the 2021 Census of the Population. The data was released at all levels of geography made available by Statscan. At the federal level, Canada grew by 5.2% since the 2016 Census, with a total population of 36,991,981. […]
Sean Marshall 