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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WTA Montreal tournament champion Victoria Mboko and beaten finalist Naomi Osaka officially withdrew on Friday from the ATP-WTA Cincinnati Open in decisions openly telegraphed after their Thursday night final in Canada.Mboko, the 18-year-old Canadian who electrified Montreal with her run to a first WTA title, cited the wrist injury she suffered in the semi-finals while four-time …
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Ben Shelton became the first American to win an ATP Masters 1000 title in Canada in more than two decades as he defeated Karen Khachanov 6-7 (5/7), 6-4, 7-6 (7/3) in Toronto final on Thursday.The 22-year-old will rise one place to sixth in the world rankings, overtaking 24-time Grand Slam singles champion Novak Djokovic in the table.”It’s a …
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Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko conquered four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka 2-6, 6-4, 6-1 on Thursday, capping a fairytale run at the WTA Canadian Open with her first WTA title.Mboko, 18 and playing in her first WTA final, denied Osaka her first tour-level title since the 2021 Australian Open, wearing down the Japanese star, 27, …
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President Donald Trump’s steeper global tariffs came into effect Thursday, leaving dozens of US partners scrambling to secure relief from soaring levies that are rewriting global trade practice.Shortly before the new rates kicked in, Washington also announced it would double India tariffs to 50 percent and hit many semiconductor imports with a 100-percent duty.Trump’s trade …
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