WestJet Pilots are going on strike if there isn’t a deal in the next 72 hours. The Airline Pilots Association International (ALPA), the union representing Westjet Pilots issued a 72 hour strike notice to the airline on Monday evening. The notice allows the union to begin job action as early as Thursday evening. ALPA posted […]
Federal Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says Canadian Forces personnel are being deployed to help with an “unprecedented” wildfire situation in Alberta. Alberta has declared a state of emergency. There were 82 active wildfires as of Thursday morning, with 23 out of control. Thousands remain out of their homes and additional fire crews from British […]
A search for a missing inmate in northern Manitoba is over. RCMP say officers were conducting patrols in The Pas when they located 21-year-old Kelly Castel on a street Wednesday. They say Castel ran off and extra supports were brought in for the search, including police dogs and drones. A dog eventually located the inmate hiding not […]
It was a monumental day for Canadian journalist Connie Walker: over the course of 24 hours, she won a Peabody Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Walker’s podcast “Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s,” an investigation into the abuse her father suffered at a residential school, took home the Pulitzer’s audio reporting award on Monday and the Peabody’s […]
A summer tradition for close to 140 years is back for another. The Queen City Ex presented by SaskTel will run from August 2 to August 6 this year and will once again see a partnership with the Regina Food Bank with the return of an eating competition and world champion Joey Chestnut, the QCX […]
Manitoba RCMP are searching for two escaped inmates from the Correctional Centre in The Pas, Man. who are considered dangerous and a risk to the public. The Mounties were notified that three inmates had escaped from the institution shortly before 7 p.m. Monday A search involving additional police resources, including police dog services, resulted in […]
Canada’s major networks have kicked off a week of coronation coverage leading to Saturday’s historic crowning of King Charles III and Queen Consort, Camilla. In-depth coverage of the coronation at Westminster Abbey will begin in the wee hours Saturday for much of the country, and is set to feature Lisa LaFlamme on Citytv, Adrienne Arsenault on CBC, Dawna Friesen on Global and Omar […]
The Canada Revenue Agency and the union representing some 35-thousand federal workers have struck a tentative deal ending their weekslong strike. Negotiators for the Union of Taxation Employees, an arm of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, came to terms on an agreement that will see them get wage increases totalling 12.6 per cent — […]
Gordon Lightfoot, the legendary folk singer whose silvery refrains told a tale of Canadian identity that was exported to listeners worldwide, has died at 84. Victoria Lord, the musician’s longtime publicist and a representative for the family, says Lightfoot died at a Toronto hospital on Monday evening. A cause of death was not immediately available. […]
Saskatchewan RCMP say all suspects connected to a fatal assault on a First Nation northwest of Saskatoon are now in custody. Mounties say they have arrested two of the suspects and the third turned himself in last week after Quin Squair was assaulted on April 18 on Saulteaux First Nation, 210 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon. Squair […]
