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Water pressure: Indigenous leaders from U.S., Canada still demanding pollution probe
By The Canadian Press on May 1st, 2023
WASHINGTON – Indigenous and tribal leaders from Canada and the U.S. are keeping up the pressure on both countries to investigate toxic mining runoff from British Columbia. They want Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and B.C. Premier David Eby to agree to a bilateral investigation under a long-standing transborder water treaty. That’s despite last month’s vow ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Strike over for 120,000 public servants as union inks tentative deal with feds
By The Canadian Press on May 1st, 2023
OTTAWA – The country’s largest federal public-sector union reached a tentative contract agreement with the government overnight, covering more than 120,000 public servants across the country and bringing them back to work after a 12-day strike. It meant that the majority of Public Service Alliance of Canada workers who had hit the picket lines since ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tentative agreement reached with Treasury Board for workers: In The News for May 1
By The Canadian Press on May 1st, 2023
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of May 1 … What we are watching in Canada … The Public Service Alliance of Canada has reached a tentative contract agreement with the Treasury ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Bolo program spreading word of wanted fugitives to make announcement in Toronto
By The Canadian Press on May 1st, 2023
TORONTO – Officials with a national program intended to enlist public help in arresting Canada’s most wanted fugitives are expected to make an announcement in Toronto this morning. The Bolo program – which stands for “be on the lookout” – offered few details about the announcement. But both the Toronto Police Service and British Columbia’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!PSAC says tentative agreement reached with Treasury Board for 120,000 workers
By The Canadian Press on May 1st, 2023
OTTAWA – The Public Service Alliance of Canada has reached a tentative contract agreement with the Treasury Board covering more than 120,000 federal government workers across the country. The national strike is now over for Treasury Board workers, specifically members of the PA, SV, TC and EB bargaining groups, who are required to return to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!PSAC says tentative agreement reached with Treasury Board for 120,000 members
By The Canadian Press on April 30th, 2023
The Public Service Alliance of Canada says it has reached a tentative agreement with the Treasury Board for over 120,000 workers. More coming. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 1, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rally decries lack of federal regulation targetting shipbreaking operations
By Chuck Chiang, The Canadian Press on April 30th, 2023
A Vancouver Island community is sounding the alarm about the lack of federal and provincial regulations targetting boat-dismantling operations that may leak pollutants like asbestos and heavy metals into Canadian waters. Several residents of Union Bay, B.C., located about 180 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, voiced their opposition to one such local operation during a rally ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Public service union says weekend bargaining yields progress on wages, job security
By The Canadian Press on April 30th, 2023
OTTAWA – The union representing more than 100,000 striking public servants says it’s made some progress on wage demands and job security during weekend negotiations with the federal government. The Public Service Alliance of Canada says its bargaining teams negotiated late into Saturday evening and continued on Sunday morning, the 12th day of the strike. ... Read More »
1 responseQuebec’s minimum wage set to go up to $15.25 beginning Monday
By The Canadian Press on April 30th, 2023
MONTREAL – Quebec’s minimum wage will rise by one dollar to $15.25 as of Monday. The Quebec government says it is trying to improve the purchasing power of low-income earners and encourage participation in the labour market. The province’s labour department says nearly 299,000 workers will benefit from the increase, including more than 164,000 women. ... Read More »
1 responseCanada moving Sudan evacuation operations to port city as conflict continues
By The Canadian Press on April 30th, 2023
OTTAWA – Canada is relocating its efforts to get stranded Canadians out of Sudan from the capital to a distant port city as violence continues to escalate between the country’s army and a powerful paramilitary group. Defense Minister Anita Anand says about 550 people, including more than 400 Canadians, left the country on six military-run ... Read More »
1 responseUCP, NDP paint dystopian portraits of rivals ahead of expected election writ drop
By Dean Bennett, The Canadian Press on April 30th, 2023
EDMONTON – The writ is expected to drop Monday in Alberta for an election campaign that effectively began weeks ago with both Danielle Smith’s United Conservatives and Rachel Notley’s New Democrats warning of the dystopian future should their opponents triumph. Polls suggest the battleground for the May 29 vote is clearly defined. The UCP was ... Read More »
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