You may want to consider a plan "b" if you have a flight booked with WestJet over the next few days. The airline has cancelled dozens of flights ahead of possible strike action by maintenance workers that could happen as early as Thursday. As Andrea Macpherson reports, the two sides do not appear close to an agreement.
TORONTO — Workers at Ontario's main liquor retailer have officially walked out in the first strike in history of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union had set a strike deadline of 12:01 a.m. Friday for its roughly 10,000 workers at the LCBO. The LCBO says it is disappointed workers have gone on strike but it is hopeful that an agreement can be reached quickly. It had said its latest proposal, which was put forward Thursday afternoon, responded to a numbe
People trying to buy liquor in Windsor on Friday were surprised to find the doors of LCBO stores closed.A steady flow of would-be shoppers approached the doors of the downtown Windsor LCBO location, peeking through before turning away.Oghenekevwe Udusegbe said he was hoping "to get some vodka, maybe some Smirnoff" to enjoy the weekend with.It was the second store he was visiting, only to discover it was not open."I'll just go home and have some juice," he said, adding that he prefers to pick up
Sir Keir Starmer said discussions would start on the first day of a Labour Government.
More than 9,000 Ontario liquor store employees are on strike after bargaining talks broke down between their union and the LCBO.Leaders of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), which represents the workers, blamed the strike on Premier Doug Ford. The strike deadline set by the union was 12:01 a.m. on Friday."LCBO workers are ready to make history," Colleen MacLeod, chair of OPSEU's liquor board employees division bargaining team, told reporters at a news conference on Thursday even
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Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), said President Biden will not be elected to another term “one way or another.” “Joe Biden can step aside for another candidate or lose in historic numbers in a few months — but one way or another he will not be President soon and…
The Vatican on Friday informed a Donald Trump-supporting archbishop that he is being excommunicated for refusing to recognize Pope Francis' authority after years of outspoken public attacks.Carlo Maria Vigano, an ultra-conservative who served as the Vatican’s diplomat to Washington, D.C. between 2011 and 2016, was formally accused last month of schism, which is one of the most serious offenses in canon law. Schism is “the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff or of communion with the memb
A thread of bombshell text messages made public Thursday alleged that Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign settled “multiple” seedy lawsuits for a man described only as “Boris,” leading to conjecture it could be a powerful Trumpworld figure.Those messages were revealed by A.J. Delgado—a former staffer on Trump’s 2016 campaign who’s embroiled in a lawsuit against the current campaign, alleging she was taken advantage of and raped by her former superior, Jason Miller.As part of that lawsuit, Delgado, a la
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