Winnipeg Free Press By: Greg Gormick Last Modified: 11:28 AM CST Monday, Dec. 21, 2020 | Updates Canada’s once-proud passenger rail service has become overpriced, worn, unreliable and slow. A sure sign Canada’s rail passenger service is near death slunk into Winnipeg last Monday — 15 hours late. For the first time since March 12, Via Rail’s Canadian arrived from Vancouver. Opinion A sure sign Canada’s rail passenger service is near death slunk into Winnipeg last Monday — 15 hours late. For the first time since March 12, Via Rail’s Canadian arrived from Vancouver. It was really only a half-Canadian. It short-turned and went back west the next evening rather than continuing on to Toronto. The Canadian will do this once weekly until further notice, although the Winnipeg-Toronto run may return in the spring as a twice-weekly train.