Summer Vacation
Thursday, July 12th, 2007Trans-Talk will return with regular postings some time after mid-August. Until then, best wishes for calm seas and a prosperous voyage.
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Archive for July, 2007
TSB slams CN for Cheakamus derailment
Thursday, July 12th, 2007The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) faults Canadian National Railway (CN) for the 9-car derailment near Squamish, British Columbia on August 5, 2005, when a spill of approximately 40,000 litres of caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) wiped out the fish population of the Cheakamus River.
In a press release the TSB said:
Lack of training and proper supervision […]
Buoyant Canadian dollar continues rise
Thursday, July 12th, 2007The recent appreciation of the Canadian dollar against that of its largest trading partner, the USA, prompted this brief overview of its performance against a basket of Canada’s larger trading partners. China is excluded because the Yuan is still effectively pegged against the USD. (China, the largest non-U.S. holder of greenbacks with $1.33 trillion as […]
