While you were sleeping: Via steams ahead, plus rowdy citizens and raccoons

A few things you might have missed while you were sleeping.
That’s locomotion: Via Rail had its best performance in a decade during Canada’s sesquicentennial year, increasing its ridership by more than 10 per cent to 4.4 million passengers, the passenger railway says. The Crown corporation said revenues grew 12.8 per cent in 2017 over the prior year to reach $365.7 million The results were driven by an 11-per-cent increase to 4.1 million passengers transported on the core Quebec City