Canada is the second-largest country in the world, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific. With landscapes that shift dramatically from region to region, from bustling city skylines to alpine ...

Sir John A. Macdonald, the country’s first prime minister, once said that without a railway, Canada was just a “geographical expression.” While Macdonald had the railway built to bind a nation, the ...

VIA Rail has only two routes that it calls “long-distance” trains, and together they offer only five departures per week, not enough to add up to a single daily departure. One is the Canadian between ...

The Canada Strong Pass, which debuted this summer and includes free or discounted travel on VIA Rail Canada, will return for ...

As a fifth-generation Vancouver resident, I’m deeply concerned that our city’s transportation planning keeps overlooking one of our greatest untapped assets: the Vancouver Amtrak station. This ...

Rail travelers will once again be able take the train directly from downtown Portland to Vancouver, B.C., three years after the line was disrupted. Officials planned to gather at Union Station in ...