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CBC
4 days ago
- Business
- CBC
Canada Post and union meeting pushed to next week due to mediator availability
A meeting between Canada Post and the union representing 55,000 postal workers has been delayed until next week due to the availability of federal mediators, the company says. The two sides, which were set to meet Friday, will now meet on Aug. 20. It's been two weeks since members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers rejected the employers' latest offers in a majority vote. After more than a year and a half of negotiations, the two sides met with federal mediators earlier this week before agreeing to meet with each other. Canada Post says it looks forward to receiving a comprehensive response from the union that addresses the significant and increasing challenges facing the postal service. In the meantime, the union is keeping up its national ban on overtime work.
CBC
06-08-2025
- Business
- CBC
City of Winnipeg plans to spend another $360K on troubled police HQ
The City of Winnipeg plans to spend up to $360,000 to repair the roof at the Winnipeg Police Service's headquarters, in what amounts to the latest repairs to a facility that only opened nine years ago. The city is in the process of a selecting a bidder to replace the roof over the police HQ's boiler room and solve water build-up problem up over the server room — the secure space for storing and processing police data — so that the water ends up in the drains instead of pooling above police computers. According to a tender issued by the city, the work to be done consists of removing and replacing the roof and metal over the boiler room and building up the roof over the server room. No one with the city was available Tuesday to discuss the latest problems with the Graham Avenue structure, a former Canada Post warehouse and office tower complex that was converted into a police headquarters at an initial cost of $214 million, not including subsequent repair work and interest payments on the debt used to finance the purchase-and-construction project. Previous problems that have emerged at the police HQ include crumbling concrete, burst pipes and anchors coming out of concrete, the physical manifestation of the most problematic capital project started during the administration of former Winnipeg mayor Sam Katz. The police headquarters construction project was also the subject of two scathing internal audits, a five-year RCMP fraud and forgery investigation that concluded without charges, and a city civil lawsuit that ended with a judge determining that former chief administrative officer Phil Sheegl had received a $327,000 bribe from Caspian Construction, the primary contractor on the project. The judge in that case ordered Sheegl to pay the city $1.1 million. The city and Caspian settled a second lawsuit out of court, with the company required to pay the city $23.5 million by March 2026. If Caspian misses that deadline, the required payment rises to $28 million.
National Post
10-07-2025
- Business
- National Post
Court approves class-action lawsuit against Canada Post alleging illegal 'drip pricing' on shipping
Article content A B.C. small business owner's complaint that Canada Post uses illegal 'drip pricing' in online shipping services has been certified by the Federal Court as a class-action lawsuit. Article content The lawsuit seeks compensation from the troubled national postal service for adding a mandatory 'fuel surcharge' late in the purchase process, after showing shipping rates. If successful, customers who used Canada Post's online shipping tools in the last few years could be eligible for reimbursement. Article content Article content Marci Deane filed a civil lawsuit in Federal Court last year alleging that three of Canada Post's online shipping services failed to disclose the full price of shipping by adding a required additional charge for fuel after advertising a purchase price, in violation of the Competition Act. Article content Article content She accused the Crown corporation of using banned 'drip pricing' and 'double ticketing' in its sales. Article content The additional charge to the price is significant. Article content Canada Post denies using 'drip pricing' or 'double ticketing.' The Crown corporation opposed the certification of Deane's lawsuit as a class action. Article content Making it a class-action case means that if the lawsuit is successful, any damages assessed by a judge can apply to a wide group of people who suffered similar losses, rather than just Deane. Article content Article content In court, Canada Post argued all pricing information is disclosed on a single webpage, during a single stage of the purchasing process. The company said customers are unable to complete their purchase without agreeing to the fuel surcharge, so they can change their mind before paying if they objected. They also argued that when opening an account to use its services, customers agree to terms that would allow fuel surcharges. Article content Article content Deane complained of three of Canada Post's online shipping services, called Snap Ship, Ship Online, and Shipping Manager. They allow online users to create, pay, and print shipping labels to send parcels. Article content Deane, as a small business owner, has been using Canada Post services and programs for businesses for more than 15 years, court heard. Article content While deciding whether Deane's lawsuit should be a class-action suit, Justice Jocelyne Gagné was shown screen shots and videos of the Canada Post online purchase process and parsed the experience.
