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2 days ago
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Air Canada flight attendants picketing at 4 major airports on national day of action
People wait to check-in at Trudeau airport in Montreal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes. TORONTO — Air Canada flight attendants are expected to picket at airports in four major Canadian cities on Monday in what their union is calling a national day of action. The Canadian Union of Public Employees says demonstrations are expected to take place at Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, Toronto Pearson International Airport, Vancouver International Airport and Calgary International Airport, all at 1 p.m. ET. CUPE says it is looking to raise awareness about what it calls 'poverty wages' and unpaid labour when working on a plane when it's not in the air. CUPE says the Air Canada component of the union was set to return to bargaining talks with the airline on Friday after its members voted 99.7 per cent in favour of a strike mandate. The vote, which wrapped last Tuesday, means flight attendants could possibly walk off the job as soon as Aug. 16 at 12:01 a.m. with at least 72 hours' notice provided. The two sides have been in contract talks since the beginning of the year and the strike mandate comes after the airline and union concluded a conciliation process without reaching a deal. In a statement released last Tuesday, Air Canada said it believes there's still time to get a deal done and avoid interrupting the plans of thousands of travellers. The airline also said it's 'determined to reach a fair and equitable collective agreement that recognizes the contributions of its flight attendants and supports the competitiveness and long-term growth of the company.' The negotiations concern flight attendants working for Air Canada's main operations, as well as for Air Canada Rouge. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 11, 2025.
Yahoo
2 days ago
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- Yahoo
In the news today: Air Canada flight attendants picketing at airports
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Air Canada flight attendants picketing at airports Air Canada flight attendants are expected to picket at airports in four major Canadian cities in what their union is calling a national day of action. The Canadian Union of Public Employees says demonstrations are expected to take place at Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, Toronto Pearson International Airport, Vancouver International Airport and Calgary International Airport, all at 1 p.m. ET. CUPE says it is looking to raise awareness about what it calls 'poverty wages' and unpaid labour when working on a plane when it's not in the air. CUPE says the Air Canada component of the union was set to return to bargaining talks with the airline on Friday after its members voted 99.7 per cent in favour of a strike mandate. The vote, which wrapped last Tuesday, means flight attendants could possibly walk off the job as soon as Aug. 16 at 12:01 a.m. with at least 72 hours' notice provided. Here's what else we're watching... Heat warnings issued throughout Canada Another day of punishing heat and humidity is expected to hit Ontario, Quebec and the four Atlantic provinces. A heat warning from Environment Canada remains in effect for all of southern Ontario, stretching north past Lake Huron and Georgian Bay and east through southern Quebec. Expected daytime highs could reach 35 degrees Celsius in some parts, with the humidex at or near 40 C. Hot conditions are also washing over Atlantic Canada, with most of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and parts of Newfoundland and Labrador also under a heat warning. In British Columbia, heat warnings are also in place for most of Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast, as well as southern B-C's Fraser Canyon, South Thompson and South Okanagan areas. Ruling on appeal of Sask. pronoun law challenge The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal is expected to rule today on the province's appeal of a decision to allow a challenge of its school pronoun law. A judge ruled last year that the court challenge could continue, despite the government's use of the notwithstanding clause. The law, which came into force in 2023, requires parental consent if children under 16 want to change their names or pronouns at school. Lawyers for the LGBTQ+ group UR Pride brought forward the challenge, arguing the law causes irreparable harm to gender diverse youth and its case should move ahead. The government has argued its use of the notwithstanding clause to bring the law into force should end the court challenge. Public servant elected as MP for Trois-Rivières Out of the many federal public servants who ran as candidates in the last federal election, only one was elected: Caroline Desrochers, the Liberal member of Parliament for Trois-Rivières, Que. Originally from Montreal, Desrochers worked at Global Affairs Canada for almost 25 years; her first posting was in Haiti. She later worked for about a decade on Canada-U.S. relations and was posted to New York during U.S. President Donald Trump's first mandate. "I always knew one day I would want to do that," Desrochers said of entering politics, adding that she was interested in doing work that felt closer to people. Desrochers ran for the Liberals in the La Prairie riding in 2021 but was defeated by Bloc Québécois candidate Alain Therrien. Desrochers said her experience in dealing with the Americans on steel and aluminum tariffs and her outreach with the U.S. Congress will be valuable in this "consequential" moment. Study maps 'megathrust' quake zone off B.C. coast Scientists have captured the first detailed images of the meeting of two tectonic plates off the coast of northern British Columbia, an area they say has the potential to generate the largest "megathrust" earthquakes and tsunamis. The images confirm what appears to be a rare geological occurrence, a subduction zone in its "infancy," the study by U.S. and Canadian researchers shows. The paper, in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances, says the Queen Charlotte plate boundary features the beginnings of such a zone, where one plate slides under the other. The plate boundary that extends from the southern tip of Haida Gwaii to southeast Alaska was the site of Canada's two largest earthquakes in recent history — a magnitude-8.1 quake in 1949 and the magnitude-7.8 quake in 2012. Co-author Michael Bostock, a professor in the department of earth, ocean and atmospheric sciences at the University of B.C., says it's likely the area will see more "thrust" quakes, and the next one could be larger as the fault grows. This report by The Canadian Press was first published August 11, 2025. The Canadian Press
Yahoo
2 days ago
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Air Canada flight attendants picketing at 4 major airports on national day of action
TORONTO — Air Canada flight attendants are expected to picket at airports in four major Canadian cities on Monday in what their union is calling a national day of action. The Canadian Union of Public Employees says demonstrations are expected to take place at Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, Toronto Pearson International Airport, Vancouver International Airport and Calgary International Airport, all at 1 p.m. ET. CUPE says it is looking to raise awareness about what it calls 'poverty wages' and unpaid labour when working on a plane when it's not in the air. CUPE says the Air Canada component of the union was set to return to bargaining talks with the airline on Friday after its members voted 99.7 per cent in favour of a strike mandate. The vote, which wrapped last Tuesday, means flight attendants could possibly walk off the job as soon as Aug. 16 at 12:01 a.m. with at least 72 hours' notice provided. The two sides have been in contract talks since the beginning of the year and the strike mandate comes after the airline and union concluded a conciliation process without reaching a deal. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 11, 2025. The Canadian Press Sign in to access your portfolio
The Independent
03-08-2025
- General
- The Independent
Jess Phillips slams UK's reliance on women's charity as ‘sexist'
Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls Jess Phillips has said that the UK has grown "fat" on the unpaid labour of women, deeming it "fundamentally sexist". She argued that the nation's dependence on women's charitable contributions for decades has led to a reluctance from the government to provide these services itself. Ms Phillips expressed her disdain for her job title, suggesting that safeguarding against gender-based violence should be a mainstream responsibility across all government departments, not just the Home Office. She said that women historically set up vital services like refuges and counselling for free, filling gaps where government provision was absent. Ms Phillips said that undoing this reliance on free female labour and elevating the issue to a mainstream concern will be a difficult and lengthy process.
The Independent
03-08-2025
- Health
- The Independent
UK has got ‘fat' on decades of women's unpaid labour
Jess Phillips says that the UK has grown "fat" on the unpaid labour of women, a practice she deems "fundamentally sexist". The minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls argued that the nation has depended on women's charitable contributions for decades. That had led to a reluctance from the government to provide services itself, she said. Ms Phillips, the MP for Birmingham Yardley, expressed her disdain for her own job title, saying that safeguarding against gender-based violence should be "business as usual in every single government department". She also suggested that other government departments tend to view violence against women and girls as exclusively a Home Office responsibility. Ms Phillips said she had struggled to elevate the safety of women and girls to a "mainstream concern", which had not always made her "popular as a government minister". Asked what pushback she had received from ministers or civil servants, she said: 'People directly say things like, 'That's the Home Office's job'. 'Why is it my job to do healthy relationship education in schools? Why is it my job to provide mental health support for whatever reason it is that you ended up in that [situation]?' 'Do you know what it is? Free labour of women is where it comes from. 'It comes from a fundamentally sexist place in that women didn't have these services, so a load of women across the country got together and made these services and offered them to other women for free, and they didn't get paid for their labour. 'So they put down a mattress and made a refuge. They set up counselling services and got people who were trained to be therapists and got their voluntary hours and set it up for free.' Ms Phillips said people do not recognise how 'heavily' the UK has relied on women providing support that previously did not exist, which has suggested an impact on the willingness of government to provide these services. She added: 'Nobody offered diabetes medicine for free. Pharmaceutical companies didn't go, 'Wow, this is really important. People will die without this. We'll just give it away for free'. 'That is what the women in our country did in the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s and we got fat on that expectation that that service will be provided for free. 'And we also belittled it as an issue that wasn't absolutely, fundamentally mainstream to the safety and security of our nation. 'Undoing that is really hard and it's going to take a long time.'
