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Rallies held to stir up support for Canada Post workers across the country
By Canadian Press on May 31st, 2025
HALIFAX — Canada Post workers gathered in 13 cities across Canada today, holding rallies to raise awareness of the ongoing labour dispute between their union and employer. Basia Sokal, a letter carrier from Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley who joined a few dozen others at an event in downtown Halifax, describes Canada Post’s treatment of its ... Read More »
1 responseMore evacuations ordered as crews battle wildfires burning in Manitoba
By Canadian Press on May 31st, 2025
FLIN FLON — More people in northern Manitoba are leaving their homes as wildfires continue to threaten communities. The roughly 600 residents of Cranberry Portage have been placed under a mandatory evacuation order because fires have knocked out power to the community — a situation expected to last for days. An evacuation of Pimicikamak Cree ... Read More »
1 responseRallies in support of Canada Post workers scheduled across the country
By Canadian Press on May 31st, 2025
Rallies in support of Canada Post workers are set to take place across the country today amid ongoing labour tensions between the employer and the union representing roughly 55,000 staff. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers announced the rallies on its website, saying supporters will gather in 13 cities including Halifax, Toronto and Vancouver. The ... Read More »
1 responseNo rain in forecast as crews battle wildfire burning near Flin Flon, Manitoba.
By Canadian Press on May 31st, 2025
FLIN FLON — The weather is not co-operating in parts of the Prairie provinces as wildfires continue to threaten communities. Officials in Flin Flon, Man., say there were no structure fires in the evacuated city as of this morning, but smoke from a fire very close to the community has made for poor visibility and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec to seek leave to appeal school board reform ruling to Supreme Court of Canada
By Canadian Press on May 31st, 2025
MONTREAL — Quebec will ask the Supreme Court of Canada for permission to appeal lower court rulings that found a provincial law abolishing school boards violates English-language minority education rights. A spokesperson for Quebec’s justice minister confirmed this week the province will appeal a ruling from the Quebec Court of Appeal rendered in April. That ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rain not forecasted as crews battle wildfire burning near Flin Flon, Manitoba.
By Canadian Press on May 31st, 2025
FLIN FLON — There’s no rain in the forecast for Flin Flon, Manitoba over the next week as crews there fight a wildfire that’s raging nearby. Temperatures throughout the weekend are expecting to range from the low to high 20s, before cooling off. Thousands have evacuated the northwestern Manitoba city, including municipal government officials and ... Read More »
2 responsesSon of woman who inspired assisted dying law chooses to die on his own terms
By Canadian Press on May 31st, 2025
OTTAWA — Price Carter is planning to die this summer. The 68-year-old has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He knows it will take his life eventually; before it does, he intends to die on his own terms with his family at his side. “I was told at the outset, ‘This is palliative care, ... Read More »
3 responses‘A conglomeration of acquired goodies’: N.B. man with cancer sells stuff to declutter
By Canadian Press on May 31st, 2025
FREDERICTON — It was a complete shock when Gerry Carroll was diagnosed with cancer and was given months to live. The retired Riverview, N.B., sales representative said he had gone to see his family doctor in December 2023 for what he described as a “gurgling” noise in his stomach. His family physician sent him for ... Read More »
2 responsesOstriches at B.C. farm have version of avian flu not seen elsewhere in Canada: CFIA
By Canadian Press on May 30th, 2025
The type of avian flu infection present at a B.C. ostrich farm where a cull is planned is a mutation not seen elsewhere in Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Friday. It said the version includes a genotype that has been associated with a human infection in a poultry worker in Ohio. The agency ... Read More »
1 responseCanada Post asks jobs minister to force union to vote on ‘final offers’
By Canadian Press on May 30th, 2025
OTTAWA — Canada Post says it has asked Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu to force a union membership vote on the proposals the Crown corporation put forward earlier this week. Canada Post presented its “final offers” to the union representing 55,000 workers on Wednesday, with concessions including an end to compulsory overtime and a signing bonus ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CFIA fines B.C. ostrich farm and says cull will occur, rejecting U.S. intervention
By Canadian Press on May 30th, 2025
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it has fined a British Columbia ostrich farm $20,000 for failing to co-operate with anti-avian flu measures, rebuffing interventions in the case by United States health officials. It said the farmers who are resisting a cull order have not substantiated claims of scientific research on the birds, and that ... Read More »
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