[:en]Canada’s ferries call on the government to amend criteria for the New Building Canada Plan March 5, 2015 Presented as the “largest and longest infrastructure plan in our nation’s history,” the federal government’s New Building Canada Plan largely ...
CHEK News - March 5, 2015 The public and political outcry over BC Ferries being excluded from billions in federal infrastructure money continues to grow. Federal opposition leaders are vowing to take up the fight and so too is the Canadian Ferry Associ ...
CHEK News - March 3, 2015 The BC government is trying to pressure Ottawa to get some federal funds for BC Ferries. Billions of dollars are up for grabs under a new Building Canada Fund. But baffling rules around the funding are shutting BC Ferries out. ...
Manitoulin Expositor - March 4, 2015 OWEN SOUND—The Owen Sound Transportation Company (OSTC) is hoping the weather will play nice for the scheduled May 1 start of the Chi-Cheemaun ferry season, although the frigid winter has dimmed those hopes slightly ...
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Vancouver Sun, March 2, 2015 But Infrastructure Canada says ferry corporation ‘indeed eligible to apply for’ money VICTORIA — The B.C. government is lobbying Ottawa to change the “baffling” funding rules that have shut out BC Ferries from federal finan ...
LNG Industry - February 27, 2015 Davie, Canada’s largest shipbuilder, celebrated the keel-laying ceremony for the first LNG-powered ferry to be built in North America. The ceremony market the beginning of the hull assembly for MV Armand-Imbeau I ...
Feb 26 - Western Star Marine Atlantic announced Wednesday a 30 per cent reduction in price for the North Sydney, N.S., to Argentia ferry service starting today, a move which Liberal MP for Humber-St. Barbe-Baie Verte Gerry Byrne says he applauds. He ha ...
Les Leyne – Times Colonist – Feb 26 Most of those who signed the petition presented this week demanding B.C. Ferries be moved under direct government control did so thinking a major change is what’s needed. But there’s already a major change underway t ...