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Canada Industrial Relations Board declares Air Canada strike unlawful
Lethbridge Herald
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August 18, 2025
By Canadian Press on August 18, 2025. MONTREAL — Air Canada says the Canada Industrial Relations Board has declared the strike by the company’s 10,000 flight attendants unlawful and has ordered the union’s leadership to direct its members to...
Canada’s Industry Minister Meets With Saab, Ericsson in Sweden
Yahoo Finance
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Canadian Industry Minister Melanie Joly (Bloomberg) -- Canadian Industry Minister Melanie Joly is set to meet with Saab AB and Ericsson in Sweden, where she also hopes to strike an economic partnership with the country, according to a person...
Agri-Food 2050 event to shape the future of Canadian agriculture
Canadian Poultry
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August 18, 2025
AAC brings leaders together in Niagara Falls to tackle sector challenges and opportunities. The Agricultural Adaptation Council (AAC) is inviting farmers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and policy makers to Niagara Falls this September for Agri-Food...
Canada Considers New Categories For Express Entry In 2026
Immigration
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August 18, 2025
On this page you will find: Details of the 2026 Express Entry consultation Current category-based draws and priorities Proposed new categories for 2026 Focus on Francophone immigration outside Quebec Labour shortages and Canada’s economic...
Industrial relations board calls continued Air Canada strike 'unlawful'
Lacombe Express
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The union representing flight attendants is defying a ministerial order to return to work The Canada Industrial Relations Board released a decision on Monday morning (Aug. 18) calling the continued strike by Air Canada flight attendants...
Canada’s wildfires could continue into fall, says government
Regional Media News - Iowa
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August 18, 2025
By Ed White WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) -Canada’s second-worst wildfire season on record has already burned 7.8 million hectares and could continue for weeks, federal government officials said Monday. Warmer than usual weather forecast from now...
Strike by Air Canada flight attendants deemed unlawful by labour board
CJLS - Massachusetts
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August 18, 2025
The Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) has declared the continued strike activity by Air Canada flight attendants as unlawful. The board has ordered leadership at the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) to instruct the flight...
Financial gap continues to widen for some Canadians, says Equifax
Wealth Professional Canada
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August 18, 2025
Close to 1.4 million Canadians missed a credit payment in Q2, about 7,000 fewer than the previous quarter. However, that figure still represents 118,000 more missed payments than a year earlier. Non-mortgage holders were nearly twice as likely to...
Canada Halts Air Canada Strike with Arbitration, Union Plans Legal Challenge
WebProNews
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August 18, 2025
Canada’s government stepped in decisively on August 16, 2025, to halt a burgeoning strike by Air Canada’s flight attendants, invoking rarely used powers to force both the airline and its union into binding arbitration. The move came mere hours...
Aurrigo to deliver Canada's first all-season autonomous shuttle trial
ShareCast
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The AIM-traded company said it would supply a nine-seat ‘Auto-Shuttle’, designed to operate in challenging Canadian weather conditions. Following delivery in the second half of 2025, the vehicle would undergo extensive testing at Area XO, the...
US tariffs tighten screws on Japanese and South Korean captive finance
Motor Finance Online
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August 18, 2025
As US auto tariffs bite and global competition intensifies, the finance arms of Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Hyundai, and Kia must pivot fast. When Toyota’s chief financial officer addressed investors in early August, his message was anything but...
Canada and Toronto Move to a Single-Source TTC Subway Contract
METRO Magazine - California
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The TTC’s single-source decision aims to secure Canadian manufacturing jobs while ensuring reliable new subway trains for Toronto riders. The Government of Canada, the Province of Ontario, and the City of Toronto have given the Toronto Transit...
Ian Lee: Protected companies like Air Canada are holding us all hostage
The Hub
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August 18, 2025
Canadians should not be surprised that the federal government has attempted to legislate Air Canada’s striking flight attendants back to work. What should surprise us is how Canada’s national politicians have enabled a number of protected and...
Air Canada Strike: Operational Restart Disrupted As Return-To-Work Order Defied
Simple Flying
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August 18, 2025
Over the weekend, Air Canada's operations faced significant disruption as a result of planned industrial action taken by members of cabin crew at the Canadian flag carrier. The strike, which was issued last week with a 72-hour notice, had...
Flight attendant union leaders ‘ready to go to jail’ as Air Canada strike outlawed
The Guardian
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August 18, 2025
Union leaders representing 10,000 striking flight attendants have said they would be willing to go to jail rather than comply with an order to return to work, as Canada’s federal government seeks to end a bitter contract dispute that has halted...
Strike declared illegal: Air Canada flight attendants face new pressure to end strike
RTL Today
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August 18, 2025
Canada's labor tribunal on Monday declared a strike by Air Canada's flight attendants illegal, a decision that could end a work stoppage which has cancelled travel for half a million people worldwide. Roughly 10,000 flight attendants walked off...
Air Canada Flight Attendants Face New Pressure To End Strike
International Business Times
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August 18, 2025
Canada's labor tribunal on Monday declared a strike by Air Canada's flight attendants illegal, a decision that could end a work stoppage which has cancelled travel for half a million people worldwide. Roughly 10,000 flight attendants walked off...
Air Canada flight attendants strike ruled ‘unlawful’ by labour board
Western Standard
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Canada's labour relations board has declared the strike by Air Canada's 10,000 flight attendants illegal. The Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) ruled this morning that the Canadian Union of Public Employees broke the law when it defied a...
‘The Time is Right’ for Major Industry Tie-up
Industrial Distribution - Wisconsin
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August 18, 2025
Distribution industry observers should be used to a steady drumbeat of consolidation news by now, but still, nearly every year, a deal seems to come along that shakes up the picture more than most. Five years ago, it was Wesco’s $4.5 billion...
TSX slips ahead of Canada inflation data, Fed conference
Business Recorder
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August 18, 2025
Canada’s main stock index inched lower on Monday as investors avoided big bets ahead of domestic inflation data due on Tuesday and a key U.S. central bank conference starting on Friday. At 9:55 a.m. ET, the Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX...