• Air Canada cancels 5 more routes to U.S. destinations for 2027

  Source: Global News Politics
  Date: 2026-10-22 15:44:44.0
  Tags: [National, Trade, Transportation, Tourism]

  Air Canada announced the cancellation of five direct flight routes between Canada and the United States for 2027 due to weaker travel demand and ongoing geopolitical and economic tensions. The affected routes include Montreal-Seattle, Vancouver-Nashville, Vancouver-Raleigh-Durham, Toronto Billy Bishop-Boston, and Toronto Pearson-Charleston, marking the complete elimination of Air Canada's direct service to South Carolina. This decline in cross-border air travel follows repeated tariff threats and annexation rhetoric from U.S. President Donald Trump, which led to a 65 per cent drop in Canadian trips to destinations like Myrtle Beach according to University of Toronto data, alongside broader schedule reductions by carriers including WestJet and Air Transat.

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• Ontario Advancing Widening of Highway 69 Between Parry Sound and Sudbury

  Source: Ontario - Ministry of Transportation
  Date: 2026-08-25 19:30:00.0
  Tags: [Ontario, Infrastructure, Transportation, Mining, Tourism]

  The Ontario Ministry of Transportation is advancing the widening of Highway 69 between Parry Sound and Sudbury by investing in the relocation of a Canadian National Railway Company (CN) rail line within the Township of Mowat and the Municipality of Killarney. The project involves splitting the remaining 68 kilometres of highway widening work into six sections—with four under heavy construction by the end of next year—to facilitate the construction of a new Highway 522 interchange. To date, the province has completed widening 84 kilometres of the 152-kilometre corridor, supported by a broader $31 billion ten-year provincial investment in highways, roads, and bridges.

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