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The Canadian government has stepped in to end the rail strike that only started yesterday.

Amid concerns over the effect on the wider North American economies of the rail freight network standstill, carriers Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and Canadian National (CN) have been ordered to resume operations.

And the government announced it was forcing the operators into binding arbitration with the Teamsters Union to resolve the dispute.

Labour minister Steve MacKinnon said: “I am ...

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