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CTV News
8 hours ago
- CTV News
Canadian cyclists play out real-life version of John Candy movie due to Air Canada strike
Canada's U20 cycling team, which includes 3 locals, improvised travel plans to make world championships in the Netherlands. CTV London's Brent Lale reports. A planned trip to Europe turned out to be like the plot of John Candy movie. When Cycling Canada was set to depart for the Netherlands to compete in the U20 World Championships, their flights from Montreal were cancelled due to the Air Canada strike. It left St. Thomas, Ont. natives Brody Mann, Alex Fangeat and Eve Buczkowski all stuck with teammates and coaches in Quebec, where they were holding a training camp. 'It's been a long two days of travel, with almost no sleep,' said Buczkowski from her hotel in the Netherlands. As the projected strike date of Saturday approached, it sent everyone into panic mode. 'On Friday night, I think, we were sort of in crisis at that point, and we had to start to think outside the box and pivot our plan,' said Phil Abbott, director of endurance with Cycling Canada. Like Candy's characters in Home Alone and Planes, Trains and Automobiles, they packed up their gear and started driving. 081825 - Air Canada strike cyclists Cycling Canada rented a pair of vans to drive the athletes and coaches from Montreal to Boston, Mass. in order to fly to Amsterdam for this week's World Championships. (Source: Phil Abbott) 'We found two willing drivers and two-15 passenger vans,' says Abbott. 'We grabbed one of our Cycling Canada trailers and we packed it to the gills. I don't think we could have set another bike box in it, and we were quickly on our way down to Boston.' While they were making the five-hour drive, staff in Ottawa were frantically looking for available flights. 'Delta had available seats which is important and then also, more importantly, the available room for all of our equipment,' he said. 'We travel with 32 bike boxes and they're not small. They're hard to get around and airlines sometimes struggle to take that much luggage. So fortunately, they were able to fit us in, I think less than 24 hours notice.' The flights arrived early Monday morning. They weren't the only ones who had to jump through hoops to make it to Europe. Buczkowski's mom, Ashley, has a tale of her own. She, along with her husband and son, took the train from London to Montreal to meet up with her daughter and planned to fly with them. Those plans quickly were derailed. 'We boarded a bus at 10 p.m. and drove overnight to New York City,' said Ashley. 'We got here at 4:30 a.m. and booked a flight with Delta that left at 7:30 p.m. We toured NYC for the day, but we hadn't slept in over 24 hours.' An update from Ashley said they arrived in the Netherlands Monday. 'It's been basically three days of very little sleep and we're exhausted,' she said. Now that everyone has arrived, they can focus on the competition. 081825 - Air Canada strike cyclists Canada's U20 Cycling team had to drive to Boston, Mass from Montreal, Que. to fly to Amsterdam due to the Air Canada strike. (Source: Phil Abbott) 'I think we're all relieved today to get to the velodrome and unpack, have all of our equipment and see the velodrome,' said Abbott. 'We will be training tomorrow (Tuesday) getting ready for racing.' They will worry about how they will get home later in the week if the strike continues.
CBC
9 hours ago
- CBC
Ukrainian ensemble, youth archers upset as Air Canada strike disrupts international events
Lily Azli is excited to compete in the World Archery Youth Championships in Winnipeg this week, but she is also disappointed core members of her team from Australia won't be firing arrows alongside her amid a strike that's plaguing air travellers heading to or from Canada. About 570 athletes from 63 countries were slated to arrive in Winnipeg for the World Archery Youth Championships on the same weekend the Air Canada strike impacted about 750 flights Canadawide. "You know how many hours they've put into training and how many little and big sacrifices they've made to be here," said Azli, 18. "To know they're not going to be here at all, it breaks your heart." Five of Azli's 19 teammates won't make it for the competition due to cancellations related to the ongoing Air Canada flight attendant strike. Flight attendants remained on the picket line at Winnipeg Richardson International Airport on Monday. CUPE Manitoba president Gina McKay is adamant the picketing will continue, despite Canada's Industrial Relations Board deciding Monday that continued defiance of a back-to-work order is illegal. "No matter what, we have constitutional rights to strike and that's what we're doing here today," she said Monday outside the Winnipeg airport. "We're working and fighting for fair wages and we're fighting for a fair contract. And that's what we're doing is we're holding the line." The industrial relations board called on the union to stop all strike activities and direct its members to restart bargaining talks. Disobeying the the board's order could result in fines and penalties. The union has characterized the federal Liberal government as supporting Air Canada's "refusal to negotiate fairly" by issuing the back to work order. Michael Zakaluzny said the strike resulted in the cancellations of flights to Columbia for he and others in the Melos Folk Ensemble, a Winnipeg-based Ukrainian folk group composed of choral, orchestral and dance elements. "Major disappointment," said Zakaluzny, co-director of the ensemble. "We had put in the preparation work, people had taken … a week of holidays and all of a sudden they're going nowhere fast." Thirty-one of the nearly 60-member group was to perform at the Festival Folclórico Internacional de Barranquilla Estefanía Caicedo in the coastal cities of Barranquilla and Ciénaga. They had been rehearsing since earlier this year and were slated to put on 15 shows in Columbia over 10 days. Hours before their flight was to take off from Winnipeg they found out a leg of the trip from Toronto to Bogota had been cancelled. "The festival was expecting for us to be there and participate, they'd made arrangements for hotels, food, transportation, all those things on their end," said Zakaluzny. "The day before the festival starts, all of a sudden we've left them, through no fault of our own, with a huge hole in their lineup." Zakaluzny said the group looked into alternate flight options through their travel agent but were unsuccessful. "To cover themselves they do say they've tried to make alternate arrangements but none are available. I'm not sure … that's actually happening but they don't give you much notice and basically throw everything into a state of disarray." Winnipeg travellers feeling stranded by cancelled flights as Air Canada strike looms Though Air Canada will provide the group refunds, the section of their trip booked through a Columbia airline did not cancel that flight, so the group is out of pocket for that flight. Kerilee Falloon, director of communications for the Winnipeg Airport Authority, said it's best to stay home if you know in advance your flight has been cancelled and are hoping to rebook. "It's best not to come to the airport as the airport won't be your point of contact for rebooking." The archery competition schedule had to be bumped by a day — to begin Wednesday — to accommodate potential late arrivals, said Riel Dion, a member of the local team managing the championships. Dion said the tense bargaining situation between Air Canada and its staff has created a layer of uncertainty to the competition. "Planning an event of this scale is challenging into itself, and when you add something like a strike on top of that it definitely makes things a little bit more difficult," said Dion, who is also founder and CEO of event management company Event Camp. He said so far some international athletes have made it to the U.S. or Canada but have had to scramble to make alternative flight arrangements to get to Winnipeg. "There are some [athletes] from further away, especially southeast Asia, who are still on the phone with me saying we still can't come, our flights were cancelled," he told CBC Information Radio host Marcy Markusa. Faiiuz Azli's 15-year-old son and Lily, his 18-year-old daughter, were among the lucky ones to not face cancellations from Australia. But 15 athletes and six officials weren't so lucky. Of the 19-member team from Australia, Azli estimates about 14 will make it in time to compete. "I am speechless because we know all the kids, they all, as a team, they're very close and now some of them aren't going to be here," he said. "It's devastating, it's very sad."
CBC
a day ago
- CBC
Canadian sprinters shine at NACAC track & field championships in The Bahamas
Thirty Canadian track and field athletes travelled to The Bahamas to compete at the North American, Central American and Caribbean (NACAC) championships from Friday through Sunday. The Canadian squad includes 17 Olympians and 19 athletes who have competed at the world championships. For some athletes, this meet will serve as a tune-up for the world championships. For others, it's their final chance to hit the automatic qualifying standard or to improve their spot in the world rankings, which is another way to get into the worlds. Team Canada started the NACAC Championships off with a strong silver medal performance by Tatiana Aholou in the women's 100-metre hurdles (13.01). Canada's sprinters come through Sprinter Jerome Blake, who won the Olympic men's 4x100m gold in Paris last summer alongside Aaron Brown, Brendon Rodney and Andre De Grasse, took home gold in the men's 100m at the NACAC championships. Blake crossed the line in a personal best time of 9.95. Not to be outdone by his relay teammate, Aaron Brown also powered through to gold in the men's 200m with a time of 20.27. Camryn Rogers wins women's hammer throw at Diamond League event in Poland Blake and De Grasse (9.98) are the only Canadians who have achieved the men's 100m world championship qualifying time of 10 seconds flat. Blake and Brown have met the 200m standard of 20.16, while De Grasse will likely get in by way of his world ranking. The men's 4x100 team qualified in May at the World Athletics Relays, where they took bronze behind South Africa and the United States. Adding to the medal count Canada's middle distance athletes shone bright at the NACAC championships as well. Lucia Stafford took home bronze in the women's 1500m (4:11.11). On the men's side, Canada went 1 and 2 with Foster Malleck taking gold (3:37.54) and Charles Philibert-Thiboutot finishing close behind in second (3:40.57). Nova Scotia's Sarah Mitton who took silver at the 2023 outdoor worlds before capturing back-to-back indoor world titles will look to add to Canada's medal count on Sunday evening as she competes in the women's shot put.
