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Canadians favour government intervention in Canada Post, port labour disputes: poll
By Anja Karadeglija, The Canadian Press on November 20th, 2024
OTTAWA – A new poll suggests Canadians are supportive of government intervention in the labour disputes at ports and at Canada Post. Polling firm Leger found 63 per cent of respondents to a new survey were in favour of the Liberal government’s move to step in and ask the Canada Industrial Relations Board to order ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. port union challenges constitutionality of labour minister’s back-to-work order
By The Canadian Press on November 19th, 2024
VANCOUVER – The union representing port supervisors in British Columbia is formally challenging the legal and constitutional authority of the federal labour minister to order them back to work. In a legal document dated Tuesday, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 514 says it’s questioning whether the order issued by Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon last ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Bomb cyclone’ hitting B.C. sounds scary, but meteorologist says name isn’t alarmist
By Brieanna Charlebois, The Canadian Press on November 19th, 2024
VANCOUVER – Gusts of more than 90 km/h are hitting parts of the British Columbia coast as a “bomb cyclone” develops off Vancouver Island, bringing the potential for destructive hurricane-force winds. Environment Canada has issued more than 50 warnings, advisories and alerts related to the storm, covering most of Vancouver Island and other coastal areas ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘My heart sank’: Trial hears diapers, mittens set off search for family found frozen
By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press on November 19th, 2024
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. – A U.S. border patrol intelligence agent recalled Tuesday feeling horrified when he realized a group of migrants from India, including a young child, were out in a freezing blizzard on a stretch of open prairie at the border between Manitoba and Minnesota. “My heart sank … because there’s more people out ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Cargo jet reported ‘flight control problem’ before sliding off Vancouver runway
By Chuck Chiang and Brieanna Charlebois, The Canadian Press on November 19th, 2024
VANCOUVER – Air traffic control audio shows a Boeing 767 cargo jet reported a “flight control problem” involving a mechanism on its wings used to slow the aircraft just before it skidded off a runway at Vancouver’s airport at high speed. Conversations between the pilots on the Amazon Prime Air jet and air traffic control ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!NDP MP calls on Boissonnault to resign over false claims to Indigenous identity
By Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press on November 19th, 2024
OTTAWA – A Métis member of Parliament is calling on the employment minister to resign over what he calls harmful false claims to Indigenous ancestry. Randy Boissonnault, who had said his great-grandmother was a “full-blooded Cree woman,” has also been described as Indigenous multiple times in communications from the Liberal party. He has walked back ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Montreal mayor supports Polytechnique survivors’ call for complete assault weapon ban
By The Canadian Press on November 19th, 2024
Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante is lending her support to a gun control advocacy group as it urges the federal government to complete a list of banned assault-style weapons before a federal buyback program comes into effect. PolySeSouvient, a group that represents survivors and families of the 1989 École polytechnique massacre, joined Plante at Montreal’s city ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!With Trump headed to White House, Canada has its eyes on Chinese investment in Mexico
By Kyle Duggan, The Canadian Press on November 19th, 2024
OTTAWA – Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she shares the “legitimate” concerns of U.S. officials about Mexico becoming a back door for China to wedge its way into the North American trading regime. Her comment comes the day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised the issue with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum while in Brazil ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A ‘lot of ground’ remains between Canada Post, workers as strike talks progress
By Christopher Reynolds, The Canadian Press on November 19th, 2024
MONTREAL – Canada Post and the postal workers union found slivers of consensus Tuesday amid talks with a special mediator, but “a lot of ground” remains between them on the key concerns as a countrywide strike entered its fifth day. “On smaller issues, we were able to find some progress,” said Canada Post spokesman Jon ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sex abuse case: Judge orders seizure of homes belonging to billionaire Robert Miller
By The Canadian Press on November 19th, 2024
MONTREAL – A Quebec Superior Court judge has ordered the seizure of two Montreal-area residences belonging to billionaire Robert Miller, at the request of four women who have filed civil lawsuits alleging he sexually abused them as minors. Justice Serge Gaudet on Friday authorized the request for a seizure before judgment of the two properties ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Motion to declare homelessness state of emergency fails to pass at Montreal council
By The Canadian Press on November 19th, 2024
Montreal’s city council has voted down a motion brought by a pair of Independent city councillors seeking to have a state of emergency declared over the city’s homelessness situation. Mayor Valérie Plante says councillors agree that the high number of unhoused people is an urgent concern but declaring a state of emergency would not help. ... Read More »
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