Air Canada cancelled hundreds of flights Saturday as it began shutting down operations in response to a strike by flight attendants — triggering summer travel chaos for its 130,000 daily passengers. Canada’s largest airline, which flies directly to 180 cities worldwide, urged customers not to go to the airport if they have a ticket for Air …
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Air Canada’s flight attendants went on strike Saturday, as the airline announced a complete shutdown of operations, creating summer travel chaos for its 130,000 daily passengers. “We are now officially on strike,” the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which represents Air Canada’s 10,000 flight attendants, said in a statement.Air Canada, which flies directly to 180 …
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Air Canada’s flight attendants were poised to strike on Saturday as the carrier cancelled hundreds of flights impacting more than 100,000 passengers ahead of a threatened work stoppage that could shut down service. The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which represents Air Canada’s 10,000 flight attendants, was in a legal position to strike as of …
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Pierre Poilievre, who is running to reclaim a seat in Canada’s parliament next week, was on track to be prime minister until Donald Trump upended Canadian politics. But even if the Conservative Party leader wins Monday’s by-election in one of the country’s most right-wing districts, experts say he may struggle to regain momentum in a political …
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Air Canada faced a midnight deadline Friday to avert a flight attendants strike that would shut down service, creating summer travel chaos for the carrier’s 130,000 daily passengers.The Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents Air Canada’s 10,000 flight attendants, says that in addition to wage increases it wants to address uncompensated ground work, including …
Air Canada began cancelling flights on Thursday after receiving a strike notice from the flight attendants’ union, warning all operations could be shut down by Saturday. The airline that transports about 130,000 passengers daily announced this week that negotiations on a new collective agreement with its 10,000 flight attendants had reached an “impasse.”Chief operating officer Mark …
Nearly 20,000 residents of a community in western Canada were on standby Wednesday as a wildfire engulfed a mountain overlooking the city of Port Alberni, the latest area threatened in the country’s second-worst fire season on record.”I’ve lived in Port Alberni since 1956 and this is one of the biggest fires we’ve ever seen,” Russ …
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Palestinian-Canadian Faiza Najjar was able to leave Gaza last year, but could not bring her four adult daughters with her. She watched from a distance as food shortages in the territory worsened.From Canada, where she lives with her six other children, Najjar pursued a months-long effort to get those she had left out of Gaza.She …
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“Weapons,” a new horror film about the mysterious disappearance of a group of children from the same school class, opened atop the North American box office with $42.5 million in ticket sales, industry estimates showed Sunday.”This is an outstanding opening for an original horror film,” analyst David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research said of …
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Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday announced a multi-billion-dollar military spending package, affirming his government’s plan to hit NATO’s two percent defense spending target this year. Since taking office in April, Carney has repeatedly warned that Canada’s military is not equipped to confront the growing threats facing the country.He has cited the prospect of Russian …
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