Work stoppage possible as WestJet issues lockout notice to maintenance engineers' union
A lockout notice issued by WestJet to a union representing aircraft maintenance engineers could result in a work stoppage next week.
Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week:
Former CannTrust leaders are scheduled to make their first court appearance in Toronto on Monday, roughly three years after the cannabis company became embroiled in unlicensed growing allegations. Former chief executive Peter Aceto, former vice-chairman Mark Litwin, and former chairman Eric Paul each face charges of fraud, making false or misleading statements to the OSC and the market and authorizing, permitting or acquiescing in the commission of an offence.
Loblaw Companies Ltd. will release its Q2 results on Wednesday. Canada's agriculture ministers recently gave the country's grocers until the end of the year to propose measures to regulate the industry, following moves by Loblaw and Walmart Canada to impose higher fees on suppliers.
Statistics Canada is set to release its Consumer Price Index for June on Wednesday. The agency recently reported that prices across the country rose at their fastest annual rate in a decade in May, with the promise of similar numbers through to the fall as the national economic reopening from pandemic measures allows consumers to spend more freely.
Shopify Inc. will release Q2 results on Wednesday. The Ottawa-based e-commerce company announced in June that it had a new revenue share model for developers and would speed up transactions as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to pit the company against Amazon.com Inc.
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. is set to release Q2 results on Wednesday. The railway operator may have lost out to rival Canadian National Railway Co. in a bidding war for U.S.-based Kansas City Southern. KCS says its shareholders will vote on a US$33.6-billion takeover offer from CN next month.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 25, 2021.
A lockout notice issued by WestJet to a union representing aircraft maintenance engineers could result in a work stoppage next week.
A man accused of arson in a January Old Strathcona apartment fire is expected to be charged with manslaughter after a body was discovered in the burned building late last month.
A man was denied a $5,000 payout from his brother after a B.C. tribunal dismissed his claim disputing how many kittens were born in a litter.
Quebec provincial police handed out hundreds of fines to Hells Angels members and other supporting motorcycle clubs who met for their 'first run' in a small town near Sherbrooke, Que.
Auston Matthews was back on the ice with his teammates Saturday.
Russia has put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on its wanted list, Russian state media reported Saturday, citing the interior ministry’s database.
According to an X post by the Transportation Security Administration, officers at the Miami International Airport found the small bag of snakes hidden in a passenger's trousers on April 26 at a checkpoint.
A Chinese truck driver was praised in local media Saturday for parking his vehicle across a highway and preventing more cars from tumbling down a slope after a section of the road in the country's mountainous south collapsed and killed at least 48 people.
Democratic Institutions Minister Dominic LeBlanc says he plans to table legislation this week to help the federal government address foreign interference, but he wouldn't say whether the proposal will include a foreign agent registry.
Alberta Ballet's double-bill production of 'Der Wolf' and 'The Rite of Spring' marks not only its final show of the season, but the last production for twin sisters Alexandra and Jennifer Gibson.
A British Columbia mayor has been censured by city council – stripping him of his travel and lobbying budgets and removing him from city committees – for allegedly distributing a book that questions the history of Indigenous residential schools in Canada.
Three men in Quebec from the same family have fathered more than 600 children.
A group of SaskPower workers recently received special recognition at the legislature – for their efforts in repairing one of Saskatchewan's largest power plants after it was knocked offline for months following a serious flood last summer.
A police officer on Montreal's South Shore anonymously donated a kidney that wound up drastically changing the life of a schoolteacher living on dialysis.
Since 1932, Montreal's Henri Henri has been filled to the brim with every possible kind of hat, from newsboy caps to feathered fedoras.
Police in Oak Bay, B.C., had to close a stretch of road Sunday to help an elephant seal named Emerson get safely back into the water.
Out of more than 9,000 entries from over 2,000 breweries in 50 countries, a handful of B.C. brews landed on the podium at the World Beer Cup this week.
Raneem, 10, lives with a neurological condition and liver disease and needs Cholbam, a medication, for a longer and healthier life.