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CP NewsAlert: B.C. firefighter killed while battling Donnie Creek wildfire
By The Canadian Press on July 29th, 2023
Officials in British Columbia say a contracted firefighter has been killed while fighting the Donnie Creek wildfire in the northeastern part of the province. The death of the firefighter, who has not been identified, was confirmed in a statement from the office of B.C. Premier David Eby. The death marks the fourth involving a firefighter ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Industrial Relations Board directed to review and potentially end B.C. port dispute
By Chuck Chiang, The Canadian Press on July 29th, 2023
VANCOUVER – Federal Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan has ordered the Canada Industrial Relations Board to determine if a negotiated resolution in the British Columbia port dispute is still possible and put an end to the situation if an agreement is out of reach. O’Regan issued a statement saying the board has been directed to impose ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A list of stores closed in the GTA as 3,700 workers go on strike
By The Canadian Press on July 29th, 2023
A strike by about 3,700 Metro Inc. workers represented by Unifor Local 414 has shuttered 27 grocery store locations across the Greater Toronto Area. Metro Ontario Inc., a subsidiary of the larger parent company, says pharmacy services will still be available. The following is a list of all affected Metro locations: 16 William Kitchen Rd., ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Industrial Relations Board to weigh in on B.C. port dispute
By Chuck Chiang, The Canadian Press on July 29th, 2023
VANCOUVER – Federal Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan has ordered the Canada Industrial Relations Board to determine if a negotiated resolution in the British Columbia port dispute is no longer possible. O’Regan issued a tweet saying the board has been directed to impose a final deal or binding arbitration between port workers and their employers if ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Excitement, optimism as hundreds line up to ride Montreal’s new light-rail train line
By The Canadian Press on July 29th, 2023
MONTREAL – The opening of the Montreal metro area’s new light-rail train network is drawing hundreds of curious prospective passengers to the city’s central station today, many of them expressing excitement about the future of the transit service. The first section of the driverless, electric train system known as the Réseau express métropolitain, or REM, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Minister’s tweet raises spectre of federal action as B.C. port workers vote down deal
By The Canadian Press on July 29th, 2023
Federal Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan has responded to British Columbia port workers’ decision to reject a mediated contract offer overnight, raising the spectre of more federal intervention in the months-long dispute. O’Regan says in a tweet this morning that he “will have more to say very soon,” adding Canada must “bring stability back” to B.C. ... Read More »
1 response‘Perfectly excited’: Canadian scientists await first look at bits from asteroid Bennu
By Bob Weber, The Canadian Press on July 29th, 2023
A group of Canadian scientists is awaiting delivery of an outer space postcard from the past. On Sept. 24, seven years after it blasted off from its Florida launch pad, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is expected to drop a capsule into the Earth’s atmosphere containing matter plucked from the surface of an asteroid dating from the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Metro stores in Greater Toronto Area close as workers go on strike
By The Canadian Press on July 29th, 2023
Metro locations across the Greater Toronto Area are closed today after thousands of employees at the grocery chain formally went on strike. Unifor, the largest private-sector union, says some 3,700 frontline store employees walked off the job just after midnight. It says members of Local 414 rejected a tentative labour deal reached last week, but ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Montreal program letting residents plant sidewalk gardens provides numerous benefits
By Thomas MacDonald, The Canadian Press on July 29th, 2023
MONTREAL – On a quiet residential corner of Montreal’s St-Henri neighbourhood, plots of dirt carved out of the sidewalk, each hosting a solitary tree, have become verdant oases along the city block. Through a free borough-run program that allows residents to adopt sidewalk tree plantings, local tenants have turned several of the roughly two-square-metre parcels ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Federal government struggling to get rid of millions of extra COVID-19 rapid tests
By Laura Osman, The Canadian Press on July 29th, 2023
OTTAWA – The federal government is sitting on a stockpile of 39 million extra rapid tests for COVID-19 and is struggling to get rid of them without chucking them in the trash, an internal Health Canada memo shows. As the Omicron variant of the virus began to tear across Canada at the end of 2021, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A timeline of events surrounding strike action at B.C.’s ports
By The Canadian Press on July 28th, 2023
The union representing about 7,400 port workers in British Columbia has announced that its members have voted to reject a mediated contract with employers, in a move that prolongs uncertainty surrounding the province’s ports. Here is a timeline surrounding the events. 2022 Nov. 30: The British Columbia Maritime Employers Association provides notice to commence collective ... Read More »
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