MONTREAL - Two years after their home was expropriated to make way for a rail bypass, Lac-Mégantic, Que., resident Raymond Savoie and Rita Boulanger are still fighting to stay in the stone cottage where they live alongside three cows and a lifetime of memories.

Their home and part of their land was expropriated by the federal government in 2023 for a project to divert trains from the community's downtown, parts of which were destroyed in 2013 when an oil-laden train derailed and killed 47 people.

On Tuesday, they appeared in Quebec Superior Court with their lawyer, asking for more time in the home that was built by Savoie's great-grandfather nearly a century ago.

The couple's lawyer argued it's premature to ask them to vacate the home since the Canadian Transportation Agency has not yet

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