Columbia Railway Company (reporting mark BCOL, BCIT), commonly known as BC Rail, is a railway in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Chartered as...
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BC United (BCU), known from 1903 until 2023 as the British Columbia Liberal Party or BC Liberals, is a provincial political party in British Columbia...
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British Columbia Legislature raids (redirect from BC Rail Scandal)
light questions concerning the propriety of the sale of railway company BC Rail. In October 2010, ministerial aides Dave Basi and Bob Virk pleaded guilty...
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2005 British Columbia general election (redirect from BC general election, 2005)
Nettleton accuses the government of a secret plan to privatize BC Rail as well the BC Hydro electric utility. He is removed from caucus several days later...
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Christy Clark (category Leaders of BC United)
the BC Supreme Court found Minister Clark's decision to do so unconstitutional. Clark was deputy premier at the time of the privatization of BC Rail and...
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Crown corporation (redirect from BC Pavilion Corporation)
business as in Northern Alberta Railways in 1925 and what later became BC Rail in 1918. A notable anomaly of this era is Canada's only provincially owned...
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Gordon Campbell (Canadian politician) (category BC United MLAs)
BC Rail for $1-billion". Archived from the original on February 28, 2021. Retrieved October 2, 2019. Tieleman, Bill (December 27, 2011). "How BC Rail...
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British Columbia (redirect from BC, Canada)
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada. Situated in the Pacific Northwest between the Pacific Ocean and the...
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recently BC Rail in western Canada. He now resides in northwestern Washington state writing/editing railroad-related books. Sanders received the WinteRail Hall...
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that all BC Rail passenger services were under threat in the lead-up to the eventual privatization of BC Rail. After the election of the BC Liberal government...
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British Columbia New Democratic Party (redirect from BC New Democratic Party)
promise to privatize BC Rail as an example of Campbell's pro big business policies. Clark was aided by Jack Weisgerber, leader of the BC Reform Party (the...
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American blues rock band Pacific Great Eastern Railway, the original name of BC Rail Parser Grammar Engine, Perl 6 rule compiler/interpreter for the Parrot...
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2009 British Columbia general election (redirect from 2009 BC general election)
Canadian province of British Columbia. The British Columbia Liberal Party (BC Liberals) formed the government of the province prior to this general election...
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continues to be operated by Southern Rail). A segment of the BC Hydro route through Langley is also leased to BC Rail to link the Canadian National Railway...
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Canadian National Railway (redirect from CN Rail)
involved in the sale of BC Rail. Also contested was the economic stimulus package the government gave cities along the BC Rail route. Some saw it as a...
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Railway, Santa Fe, BNSF, CSX, Southern Pacific, Canadian National Railway, BC Rail, and Union Pacific Railroad. Norfolk Southern purchased the very similar...
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Park Service, No. 2816 was reacquired by the CP in 1998, and crews from BC Rail were hired to extensively restore it to operating condition. In 2001, the...
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List of premiers of British Columbia (redirect from List of BC premiers)
Oversaw rapid expansion of the province's highway system and BC Rail, creation of BC Ferries, BC Hydro, and the Bank of British Columbia, hydro-electric dam-building...
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Corporation Algoma Central Railway BC Rail Central Manitoba Railway High-speed rail in Canada Hudson Bay Railway (1910) Island Rail Corridor List of Canadian railways...
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BC Rail, the publicly owned railway. The scandal came to public attention when news media filmed the RCMP conducting a search warrant inside the BC Legislature...
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with Rubble Creek and just south of Daisy Lake. The CN railway (formerly BC Rail) and British Columbia Highway 99 traverses it north–south. Although some...
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Southern Railway of British Columbia (redirect from Southern Railway of BC)
automobile. In 2019, the South Fraser Community Rail campaign was being launched, promoted by former BC premier Bill Vander Zalm and former Langley mayor...
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Brackendale, British Columbia (redirect from Brackendale, BC)
primarily by Government Road and Depot Road. The CN railway (formerly BC Rail) traverses it north–south. It includes the remarkable "Eagle Run" area...
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Cariboo Prospector (category Passenger rail transport in British Columbia)
or Cariboo Dayliner or The BC Rail Budd cars was a passenger train service in British Columbia, Canada, which used Budd Rail Diesel Car trains. It was...
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services which were not included in the creation of Via Rail included those offered by BC Rail, Algoma Central Railway, Ontario Northland Railway, Quebec...
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that the government would sell the operations of BC Rail (including all of the assets other than the rail right-of-way). Not selling the railway had been...
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Canada, along the BC Rail line. The operations of the line are now run by Canadian National via a long-term lease between CN and BC Rail. Rocky Mountaineer...
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Seven of these locomotives were built in 1983 and 1984, for use on the BC Rail's electrified Tumbler Ridge subdivision. Similar to EMD's GM6C testbed locomotive...
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Mike de Jong (category BC United MLAs)
breach of trust and accepting benefits in connection with the sale of BC Rail in 2003. De Jong defended his actions saying the government's Legal Services...
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