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Air Canada says no deal with flight attendants until flights resume
By Canadian Press on August 18th, 2025
TORONTO — Air Canada says its flight attendants need to return to work before the airline can push on with negotiations, even as the union says it won’t end its now unlawful strike until a deal is reached at the bargaining table. Air Canada chief operating officer Mark Nasr says the airline is ready to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Air Canada says no deal with flight attendants until flights resume
By Canadian Press on August 18th, 2025
TORONTO — Air Canada says its flight attendants need to return to work before the airline can push on with negotiations, even as the union says it won’t end its now unlawful strike until a deal is reached at the bargaining table. Air Canada chief operating officer Mark Nasr says the airline is ready to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Vancouver’s airport breaks rainfall record set in 1912
By Canadian Press on August 18th, 2025
RICHMOND — Several daily rainfall records were shattered in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia on Friday, with the Vancouver breaking a record set over a century ago. Environment Canada says about 43.2 millimetres of rain fell on Friday at Vancouver’s airport, up from the previous record for that date of 26.9 ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Low on clothes, insulin and options, travellers’ woes continue amid Air Canada strike
By Canadian Press on August 18th, 2025
John and Lois Alderman said they felt like “prisoners,” stranded in Toronto as they waited with their children for a flight back home to Manchester, U.K. The couple said they were hesitant to go sightseeing in case they got an email from Air Canada with a last-minute flight, although the airline has told them they ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Air Canada extends flight cancellations as strike action continues
By Canadian Press on August 18th, 2025
TORONTO — Air Canada says all flights of Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge remain suspended through 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday as members of the union representing its flight attendants continue strike action. It says customers whose flights are cancelled will be notified. Flight attendants were supposed to stop striking Monday after the Canada ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Air Canada extends flight cancellations as strike action continues
By Canadian Press on August 18th, 2025
TORONTO — Air Canada says all flights of Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge remain suspended through 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday as members of the union representing its flight attendants continue strike action. It says customers whose flights are cancelled will notified. More coming. Ian Bickis, The Canadian Press... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Air Canada union says right to strike on the line as it defies back-to-work order
By Canadian Press on August 18th, 2025
TORONTO — A shutdown of Air Canada by flight attendants over wages and unpaid work has rapidly escalated into a fight for the right to strike as union leaders said Monday they’ll push despite orders to stop, while the airline said it hoped workers will soon comply. The rising stakes of the impasse have left ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Anand says war in Ukraine influencing Canada’s Arctic security policy
By Canadian Press on August 18th, 2025
OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Monday the federal government is leaving “no stone unturned” to defend Canada’s North as changes in the global order in recent years are having direct implications for Canada’s Arctic sovereignty. Anand was in Helsinki to meet with her counterparts from Nordic countries to discuss Arctic security, which ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ottawa to probe unpaid airline work allegations key to Air Canada strike
By Canadian Press on August 18th, 2025
OTTAWA — Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu tells The Canadian Press that the federal government is launching a probe into allegations of unpaid work in the airline sector as a work stoppage at Air Canada stretches on. One of the key complaints from the union representing Air Canada flight attendants is that workers are not paid ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Ottawa launching probe of unpaid work in airline industry
By Canadian Press on August 18th, 2025
OTTAWA — Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu tells The Canadian Press that the federal government is launching a probe into allegations of unpaid work in the airline sector as a work stoppage at Air Canada stretches on. One of the key complaints from the union representing Air Canada flight attendants is that workers are not paid ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec union leaders say workers could face same fate as Air Canada flight attendants
By Canadian Press on August 18th, 2025
MONTREAL — The presidents of two major Quebec unions fear workers in the province could soon face the same treatment as striking Air Canada flight attendants under a provincial law passed in May. The law gives Quebec’s labour minister the power to end a labour dispute by imposing arbitration when the strike or lockout is ... Read More »
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