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[YZT580]

• Siemens Venture (Quebec City–Windsor Corridor) — built at Siemens’ plant in Sacramento, California; deliveries began 2022 and are still rolling out (only partially replacing the legacy Corridor fleet as of 2026).

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So its the Siemens coaches with the crappy seats:

 

[brihard]

So its the Siemens coaches with the crappy seats:

‘Cause there’s Siemens on them?

 

[Furniture]

I dont think the PM is a leafs fan.....zing

https://twitter.com/x/status/2095516831708586414

I might have to sign-up for a LPC membership now... Defence spending, Dad adjacent jokes that land, and trashing the Leafs.

 

[lenaitch]

Since the PM (here for the rail car announcement) and Bryan Adams (here for a concert) are in Thunder Bay at the same time, they stopped at a local bakery for a Persian (a pink-frosting-topped cinnamon bun strongly associated with the city) - from FB
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More on the Persian:

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Mmmm. Persians and Finnish pancakes at Hoitos. Two things I miss about the city.

 

[lenaitch]

So its the Siemens coaches with the crappy seats:

It depends on what you were in. The Corridor fleet is still very much a mixed bag. They had hoped that all of the Renaissance and LRC fleets would have been retired with the delivery of the new Siemens Venture fleet, but reliability and a cat fight with CN over a train length/signal performance/train speed has delayed the retirement.

I dont think the PM is a leafs fan.....zing

Naw . . . just a realist.

 

[ytz]

So, taken at face value, this will probably in the mid term substitute ongoing WC-Windsor corridor fleet renewal that would have been built in California, and will also mean domestic replacement of long distances fleets that are super long in the tooth and likely would have gone to someone in the U.S. probably at least a few billion bucks (maybe over $10B) not going south.

Not really. The Venture fleet is almost end of delivery and commissioning. I wouldn't expect anything ordered this week to be used on Corridor services. Eventually, VIA should end up with two fleets. Siemens Venture for the Corridor. Alstom for everything else.

 

[ytz]

It depends on what you were in. The Corridor fleet is still very much a mixed bag. They had hoped that all of the Renaissance and LRC fleets would have been retired with the delivery of the new Siemens Venture fleet, but reliability and a cat fight with CN over a train length/signal performance/train speed has delayed the retirement.

The whole Venture fleet has been delivered. I expect commissioning of what's left and reliability work to slowly phase in Venture fully across the Corridor over the 12-24 months.

 

[Czech_pivo]

The bloom from the last 3 months turned on us for August.

Economy sheds 42,000 jobs, unemployment rate steady in August: StatCan

The previously hot labour market stalled out to end the summer with a loss of 42,000 jobs in August, Statistics Canada said Friday.

www.ctvnews.ca

Economy sheds 42,000 jobs, unemployment rate steady in August: StatCan​

In looking for some flecks of positive news, I see the following pieces.
StatCan said there was little change in the private sector and self-employment in August, but the public sector shed 20,000 positions in its third straight month of losses.
The manufacturing industry has been hit hard by U.S. tariffs but the sector proved to be a surprise pocket of strength in August with a gain of 22,000 jobs.
Young workers aged 15 to 24 faced 19,000 job losses in August. Despite a tough end to the season, StatCan said this past summer jobs market was statistically better for youth than last year.
On average, the jobless rate for students returning to school in the fall stood at 15.9 per cent from May to August this year – two percentage points lower than the same period in 2025.

 

[Good2Golf]

I wonder how many of the 20,000 public servant positions were retirees/reductions who took ERI?

 

[PPCLI Guy]

The bloom from the last 3 months turned on us for August.

Economy sheds 42,000 jobs, unemployment rate steady in August: StatCan

The previously hot labour market stalled out to end the summer with a loss of 42,000 jobs in August, Statistics Canada said Friday.

www.ctvnews.ca

Economy sheds 42,000 jobs, unemployment rate steady in August: StatCan​

In looking for some flecks of positive news, I see the following pieces.
StatCan said there was little change in the private sector and self-employment in August, but the public sector shed 20,000 positions in its third straight month of losses.
The manufacturing industry has been hit hard by U.S. tariffs but the sector proved to be a surprise pocket of strength in August with a gain of 22,000 jobs.
Young workers aged 15 to 24 faced 19,000 job losses in August. Despite a tough end to the season, StatCan said this past summer jobs market was statistically better for youth than last year.
On average, the jobless rate for students returning to school in the fall stood at 15.9 per cent from May to August this year – two percentage points lower than the same period in 2025.

So, Summer jobs disappear when students go back to school? But less this year than last? And 20K PS retired as planne?

 

[Czech_pivo]

So, Summer jobs disappear when students go back to school? But less this year than last? And 20K PS retired as planne?

That's kind of how I see it.

Continued reduction in the PS, loss of summer jobs held by Students and manufacturing jobs held onto and returned a decent gain.

I'd like to take a bit more time and look into the number that I've always thought had more meaning, 'labour participation rate'. It was 65.1% last time I checked.

Would also like to see if the August number for the US break out manufacturing numbers.

EDIT:

Found the US August numbers:

Restaurants and bars led with 59,000 new jobs, while government education rose by 42,000 and manufacturing contributed 16,000. Health care, the primary engine of job growth, saw a gain of just 13,000, compared with the monthly average of 32,000 over the prior 12 months.

When comparing to our 22,000 manufacturing job gains for August vs the 16,000 for the US - we clearly outperformed them in August on this issue. Remember folks, 340m vs 41m.

 

[MilEME09]

That's kind of how I see it.

Continued reduction in the PS, loss of summer jobs held by Students and manufacturing jobs held onto and returned a decent gain.

I'd like to take a bit more time and look into the number that I've always thought had more meaning, 'labour participation rate'. It was 65.1% last time I checked.

Would also like to see if the August number for the US break out manufacturing numbers.

EDIT:

Found the US August numbers:

Restaurants and bars led with 59,000 new jobs, while government education rose by 42,000 and manufacturing contributed 16,000. Health care, the primary engine of job growth, saw a gain of just 13,000, compared with the monthly average of 32,000 over the prior 12 months.

When comparing to our 22,000 manufacturing job gains for August vs the 16,000 for the US - we clearly outperformed them in August on this issue. Remember folks, 340m vs 41m.

Face value it sounds bad, but given it was majority public sector. The private sector is holding strong despite the situation which is good. Given the unemployment rate stayed steady, tells me we had a lot of people leave the job market entirely such as retirement

 

[brihard]

The fact that manufacturing is growing despite everything is pretty great.