Canadian Construction LRT Media Monitoring

General News Stories

Ontario:

1. 📢 TTC Major Capital Projects: 2025 Year-End Update - Steve Munro - April 15, 2026

2. 📰 Reworking Toronto's Rail Lines For GO 2.0 and Alto - Urban Toronto - April 14, 2026

Project Updates

‍ Capital Line LRT Expansion South (Ellerslie):

1. 📰 Twin Brooks residents voice frustrations as LRT construction continues to limit access - Global News - April 12, 2026

   Green Line LRT - Phase 1:

2. 📰 Calgary announces first Green Line LRT trains are taking shape - ReNew Canada - April 16, 2026

   Blue Line Extension to Country Hills:

3. 📰 Technical investigations underway on extending Calgary’s Blue Line LRT in northeast - Global News - April 10, 2026

   Ontario Line:

4. 📰 Province Begins Tunnelling Ontario Line - Province of Ontario - April 16, 2026

   Scarborough East Rapid Transit Line (Formerly Eglinton East LRT):

5. 📰 Toronto investing $10M to accelerate Scarborough LRT design - CTV News - April 16, 2026

6. 📰 ‘I am not waiting’: Toronto mayor Olivia Chow wants to fast track Scarborough transit line - CityNews - April 15, 2026

7. 📰 Debate over Scarborough LRT heats up as mayor, councillor offer competing motions - CBC - April 10, 2026

8. 📰 Province says Eglinton East LRT not currently on priority list - CP24 - April 15, 2026

9. 📢 Next Stop: Should the Eglinton East LRT Be Built Underground? [Editorial] - GTA Weekly - April 12, 2026

10. 📰 In Scarborough, Chow and Bradford fight for transit — and votes - The Trillium - April 10, 2026

    Waterfront East LRT Extension:

11. 📰Toronto finally has funding for Waterfront East LRT, but city could be on the hook if project goes over budget - CBC - April 12, 2026

    GO Line Expansion:

12. 📰Metrolinx GO Expansion Continues With Next Major Phase - Railway Track and Structures - April 10, 2026

    Alto Project: Quebec City-Toronto:

13. 📰 Greater Napanee Council hears high-speed rail is “how and not if” as decision delayed - Kingston Daily - April 16, 2026

14. 📰 RECAP: Q+A: A chat about Canada's proposed high-speed rail project - The Kingston Whig Standard - April 10, 2026

15. 📰 Carney defends high-speed rail project as vocal opposition grows - Buffalo Toronto Public Media - April 16, 2026

16. 📰 Concerns rise as Alto’s high-speed rail threatens Ottawa Valley’s cherished trails - Inside Ottawa Valley - April 15, 2026

17. 📰 Farmers in eastern Ontario, Quebec resisting land inspections for high-speed rail project - CTV News - April 14, 2026

18. 📢 Canada’s high-speed rail promise deserves scrutiny, not applause [editorial] - The Hub - April 14, 2026

19. 📢 Social media mobilization: The latest obstacle to Canadian high-speed rail development [opinion] - Canada’s National Observer - April 14, 2026

20. 📰 Carney’s high-speed rail ‘very perilous territory’ for Liberals, say some pundits and pollsters [paywall] - The Hill Times - April 13, 2026

21. 📢 Why the Toronto-Quebec high-speed rail line is a bad idea [opinion] [paywall] - The Hub - April 13. 2026

22. 📰 Avi Lewis says high-speed rail project should be fully publicly owned [paywall] - The National Post - April 13, 2026

23. 📢 Canada's high-speed train project set to go off the rails [opinion] [paywall] - Toronto Star - April 11, 2026

24. 📢 On Canada’s high-speed rail plan, the numbers just don’t add up [opinion] [paywall] - The Globe and Mail - April 10, 2026

25. 📢 Government obligated to show that Alto project is justified in broader public interest [opinion] - The Kingston Whig Standard - April 10, 2026

26. 📰 Farmers fight Liberal high-speed rail plan ahead of crucial byelections - CBC - April 10, 2026

27. 📰 People don’t believe high-speed rail line will be built in Canada: poll - INSauga - April 10, 2026

    Reseau Express Metropolitain (REM) Phase 2:

28. 📰 REM users, mark your calendars. The Anse-à-l'Orme branch has an opening date - CBC - April 14, 2026

29. 📰 REM ramps up train testing on Anse-à-l’Orme branch - Montreal Gazette - April 10, 2026

Legend: 📰 News Story or Project Update |‍ ‍📢 Editorial/Opinion.