Posted: May 26, 2021 8:29 PM AT | Last Updated: May 26
Canadian National and Kansas City Southern have filed a motion with U.S. regulators seeking approval for the purchase.(Travis Golby/CBC)
Canadian National said Wednesday it is confident it will win U.S. regulatory approval for its $33-billion purchase of the Kansas City Southern railway, a deal that has implications for two Maritime provinces with rival gateway ports.
If approved, CN will own a single, north-south rail network connecting Canada, the United States and Mexico positioning itself as a carrier for free trade in everything from lumber to cars between the three countries.
Container ship is the largest of its kind to visit Canada: Halifax Port Authority
The largest container ship to visit a Canadian port spent the day in Halifax on Tuesday, generating a bit of buzz on social media.
The CMA CGM Marco Polo is 396 metres long almost as long as three Canadian football fields and can carry the equivalent of 16,022 containers that are each 20-feet long.
Lane Farguson, a spokesman for the Port of Halifax, said the ship was delivering goods from South Asia and China.
Nova Scotia Premier Iain Rankin posted a tweet saying the ship was being loaded with Nova Scotia blueberries, potatoes and other fresh produce for ports abroad.
HALIFAX Nova Scotia has decided to stop giving the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as the first dose effective immediately. The decision to pause the use of AstraZeneca is based on science and the increased availability of mRNA vaccines, Dr. Robert Strang, Nova Scotia s chief medical officer of health, said during a news conference in Halifax on Wednesday afternoon. In a news release, the province noted that there was an observed increase in the rare blood-clotting condition linked to this vaccine. The AstraZeneca vaccine has been linked to vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia, or VITT, in other provinces. Strang said that there have been no cases of this in Nova Scotia.