For immediate release…..(RED DEER, ALBERTA ) High Speed Rail Canada in cooperation with the City of Red Deer, Red Deer County and the Red Deer Chamber of Commerce are hosting on a high speed rail educational seminar for the public in Red Deer on Wednesday, October 14th 2009 from 5:30pm to 9:00pm at Red Deer County’s Council Chambers, 38106 Range Road, 275, Red Deer County. The guest speakers for the event have been finalized. High Speed Rail Canada,( http://highspeedrail.ca ) a citizen's national advocacy group dedicated to the education on, and the implementation of, high speed trains in Canada, will be in Red Deer for its 4th in a series of Canada wide public seminars on high speed rail.The seminar speakers will consist of: the President and CEO of Alberta High Speed Rail - William Cruickshanks, Vice President of Alstom Transportation Canada - Ashley Langford and Alberta Central Rail Historian Paul Pettypiece. Bios of the speakers are available at the High Speed Rail Canada we

Canadian Liberals Hope to Find Electoral Success in Support for High-Speed Rail by Yonah Freemark - http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/ September 1, 2009 Ruling Conservatives have been reluctant to commit to what would be a huge project to connect Québec, Montréal, Toronto, and Windsor. Early this year, the Canadian Conservative Party came close to losing its control of the federal government after the Liberal, New Democratic, and Bloc Québécois parties suggested that they would demand that their collective legislative majority be honored. In Canada, the party with a plurality of seats is traditionally rewarded with the Prime Ministership even if multiple parties on the opposing side have more total representation in the Parliament. In the past few months, Conservatives, led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, have attempted to soothe the masses by appropriating cash to major projects throughout the country — Toronto received huge grants for several light rail lines and the proposed Qu