Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Virginia Galt
Publication Date: June 25, 2025 - 20:09
Scrappy CAW president Buzz Hargrove led his union’s expansion well beyond the auto sector
June 25, 2025
In early May, at the homey Lake Huron retreat of Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector union, labour legend Buzz Hargrove was in his element: talking union strategy in the face of unprecedented threats to Canada’s economic sovereignty.“I want you all to know that you’ve got this,” the former Canadian Auto Workers president told the assembled Unifor leaders who were working flat out with their members, employers and policy-makers to minimize the impact of United States President Donald Trump’s trade war.
By the age of 23, Alex Delvecchio had placed his name on the Stanley Cup three times. He kept skating with the Detroit Red Wings until he was 41, but he never won another championship.For nearly a quarter-century, he quietly put together one of the greatest careers in National Hockey League history, though few outside Detroit paid much notice. The forward never won a scoring title, never was named a first-team all-star, never won a most-valuable-player award. Overshadowed by teammate Gordie Howe, it was barely noted upon Mr. Delvecchio’s retirement as a player that he was the league’s...
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Included in the Trump administration’s
One Big Beautiful Bill Act
, which was recently enacted, is a provision about some travellers having to pay $250, a so-called “visa integrity fee,” to enter the country.
The act includes a plan to secure the U.S. border and gives Homeland Security the...
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A fraudster Romeo who bilked five Alberta women of thousands of dollars by faking a lavish lifestyle, brain cancer, seizures and fathering a child with at least one of them, is appealing his dangerous offender designation.Jeffrey Kent’s lawyer says he has filed a notice of appeal challenging the ruling and his client’s indeterminate sentencing by an Edmonton judge last month.
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