by CS | Mar 24, 2021 | Alex Binkley, Other, Safety and Security, Trucking
By Alex Binkley In 60 years in the transportation business, Bob Ballantyne has had a front-row seat to watch sweeping changes reshape of the operations of the railways and their customers. Bob started with Canadian Pacific in 1960 when railways still controlled both...
by CanadianSailings | Dec 8, 2020 | Alex Binkley, Other, Safety and Security, Trucking
By Alex Binkley The full adoption of electronic logging devices (ELDs) for all commercial trucks and buses moved a big step forward in late October when Transport Minister Marc Garneau designated a third-party certification process to begin testing...
by CanadianSailings | Sep 30, 2019 | Government and Regulation, Other, Safety and Security
Tehran Times reported that Abbasali Kadkhodaei, spokesperson for Iran’s Guardian Council accused Canada of “economic terrorism” and called for retaliation. “Economic terrorism is a method in which Western governments seize or confiscate other nations’ economic...
by CanadianSailings | Jun 10, 2019 | Government and Regulation, Joseph Spears, Ocean, Other, Safety and Security
By Joe Spears In an April 2016 article, Breaking Bread and the Ice in Washington, I examined Canada’s evolving Arctic policy under the then new and shiny Trudeau government. The Joint Arctic Statement communique was unveiled with great fanfare at the Obama White House...
by CanadianSailings | Jun 10, 2019 | Gateways and Corridors, Government and Regulation, Joseph Spears, Ocean, Other, Safety and Security
By K. Joseph Spears During the long running Cold War, the Arctic Ocean Basin had strategic military significance: The airspace was potentially important for overflights of strategic bombers and later, intercontinental ballistic missiles – the ocean space for...
by CanadianSailings | Mar 26, 2019 | Business and Economy, Government and Regulation, Other, Safety and Security, Theo van de Kletersteeg
Theo van de Kletersteeg Prime Minister Trudeau is trying to pull Canada out of a multi-billion dollar arms deal with Saudi Arabia, he said on several occasions near the end of 2018, following allegations that suggest Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince was implicated in the...
