Rail companies, union resume talks as lockout shuts down both major railways

Contract talks resumed Thursday after Canada's two largest railways locked out their employees overnight in what is an unprecedented shutdown of freight traffic across the country. Following months of increasingly bitter negotiations, shipments at Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. ground to a halt, threatening to upend supply chains still reeling from pandemic-related disruptions and a port strike last year. On Thursday morning, the Teamsters Canada Rail Confere