Machinery

Growers of tender fruit in Ontario can now get QR codes to attach to their packaging, directing their customers to more information on their products. The Ontario Tender Fruit Producers Marketing Board on Tuesday launched its new website, which provides QR (Quick Response) codes that producers can request for download for use on their own […] Read more

Unionized engineers, conductors, traffic controllers, trainmen and yardmen at Canadian Pacific Railway have voted in favour of a potential strike. The workers, represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), have voted 95 per cent in favour of authorizing their bargaining committee to launch a strike "if necessary," the union said in a release Thursday […] Read more

Canadian Pacific Railway, under continued pressure from an activist shareholder to boost its performance, has obliged by quadrupling its first-quarter profit. Ahead of a shareholder vote of confidence at its annual meeting next month, Calgary-based CP on Friday booked net income of $142 million on $1.376 billion in revenues for its first quarter ending March […] Read more