Lac-Megantic gathers to remember fatal 2013 train derailment
Mayor Colette Roy Laroche said her council had to make a hard choice when it decided to continue to allow trains to run through Lac-Megantic, which one year ago this weekend was devastated by a...
View ArticleMemorial unveiled at site of Lac Megantic tragedy
It was a sombre day in Lac Megantic, Quebec, where a community came together to remember the catastrophic events of one year ago that forever scarred their town.
View ArticleQuebec announces additional $60M in aid to help Lac-Megantic
Quebec is granting an additional $60 million to compensate victims of last year’s catastrophic train derailment in Lac-Megantic which left 47 people dead. Municipal Affairs Minister Pierre Moreau told...
View ArticleFeds stressed fatigue, workload concerns just before Lac-Megantic disaster
A train operator’s level of fatigue, sleep patterns and ability to “make effective, safe decisions” were among the risk factors singled out in Transport Canada guidelines for single-person train...
View ArticleTransportation Safety Board to release report into Lac-Megantic tragedy
LAC-MEGANTIC – The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is to release its final report today on the catastrophic train derailment in Lac-Megantic in 2013. The disaster claimed 47 lives, destroyed a...
View ArticleTSB points finger at rail company, Transport Canada in Lac-Megantic report
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says many factors contributed to the Lac-Megantic train derailment in 2013, including lax safety measures at the company that owned the runaway train.
View ArticleCafe at centre of 2013 deadly Lac-Megantic explosion reopens
The restaurant-bar at ground zero of the deadly train derailment and explosion that killed 47 people in Quebec in July 2013 is back in business. The Musi-Cafe quietly opened its doors to the public in...
View ArticleLac-Megantic jurors at impasse on Day 6 of deliberations
The jurors at the Lac-Megantic trial told the judge Tuesday they are at an impasse in their deliberations. Quebec Superior Court Justice Gaetan Dumas read a letter from the jurors in which they asked...
View ArticleNot guilty verdicts for three men charged in Lac-Megantic railway disaster
A teary-eyed Richard Labrie, one of the three men acquitted Friday in the Lac-Megantic rail disaster, paid tribute to the 47 people killed in 2013 and said he hopes the trial delivered the answers they...
View ArticleLac-Megantic tragedy: Crown says there will be no trial against bankrupt railway
The railway at the heart of the Lac-Megantic tragedy five years ago will not have to stand trial. Crown officials in Quebec said today they were not convinced they could obtain a guilty verdict against...
View Article3 people, rail company face charges in Lac-Megantic railway disaster
The Crown says three people and a train company will face criminal negligence charges stemming from a railway disaster that killed 47 people in Lac-Megantic, Que., last summer. The prosecutor’s office...
View ArticleLac-Megantic: a lawyer for one of the accused says arrest was over the top
The lawyer for one of the men facing criminal charges in the Lac-Megantic train disaster is blasting police for the “brutal” manner in which they stormed into his client’s residence to arrest him. “It...
View ArticleReal estate sales continue to be slow in wake of Lac-Megantic railway disaster
Suzanne Desroches sums up the Lac-Megantic real estate market when she tells how her own house sale is going. “No calls, no visits, nothing,” the newly retired 58-year-old says of her dwelling in the...
View ArticleNetflix apologizes to Lac-Megantic for using rail disaster footage in ‘Bird Box’
Netflix is apologizing to the people of Lac-Megantic after actual footage of the 2013 rail disaster that devastated the town was used in dramas on the streaming service. The company says it had not...
View ArticleLac-Megantic to mark 7th anniversary of 2013 rail disaster with memorial site
Lac-Megantic will mark the seventh anniversary of a tragic rail disaster that claimed 47 lives by inaugurating a long-planned memorial space. On July 6, 2013, a runaway train hauling tanker cars loaded...
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