Canada’s Biggest Railroad to Shut Down Key Corridor Over Blockades

OTTAWA—Canadian National Railway Co. claimed Thursday it will shut down operations in eastern Canada as blockades established up by anti-pipeline activists threatened to upend the country’s manufacturing sector and sluggish the broader economic system.

The Montreal-primarily based business claimed the move could direct to short term layoffs of its staff in eastern Canada. Canadian National is the country’s most significant railroad and ships commodities and purchaser merchandise valued at far more than 250 billion Canadian bucks per year (about $190 billion). It has been not able to…