'Disaster': Alberta businesses panic as potential rail strike creeps closer

Local businesses and consumers are sounding the alarm as a nationwide rail strike looms. The union representing thousands of workers at Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. served a 72-hour strike notice to the railway on Sunday. And not long after that, CN Rail issued a similar notice saying it also intends to lock workers out unless an agreement or binding arbitration is achieved. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference says a combined 9,300 workers at Canada's two largest railways will be off the j