Canada Post down eight million parcels amid strike as talks carry on over weekend
November 23, 2024
Canada Post says it has seen a shortage of more than eight million parcels amid the ongoing strike that has effectively shut down the postal system for nine days compared with the same period of 2023.The Crown corporation said Saturday that customers have been forced to turn to competitors for their deliveries amid a work stoppage that began Nov. 15 when more than 55,000 workers across the country walked off the job.
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British Columbia’s electric utility says it has restored power to almost all customers who suffered outages during the bomb cyclone earlier this week, but strong wind from a new storm has made repairs difficult in some areas.BC Hydro says crews are working around the clock to repair outages across the province caused by the earlier weather system, which at one point affected more than 300,000 properties.
November 23, 2024 - 14:56 | Chuck Chiang | The Globe and Mail
The former head coach of the Canadian senior women’s soccer team says she hopes her sport is able to clean itself up, in her first public comments since the spying scandal at the Paris Olympics in July.Bev Priestman posted a statement to Instagram on Saturday, four months after she was sent home from the Olympics as part of a spying scheme that has tarnished the reputation of Canada Soccer’s women’s program.
November 23, 2024 - 14:22 | Greg Mercer | The Globe and Mail
Canada’s top general firmly rejected the notion of dropping women from combat roles — a position promoted by president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary — at a security forum underway in Halifax today.Gen. Jennie Carignan, chief of defence staff, was responding to Republican Senator James Risch’s comments yesterday at the Halifax International Security Forum about Peter Hegseth’s opposition to women in fighting units.
November 23, 2024 - 13:22 | Michael Tutton | The Globe and Mail
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