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:
Metro Inc. is set to release Q1 results on Tuesday. The grocer and its competitors have struggled with supply chain issues and employee absenteeism due to COVID-19 protocols, with sporadic shortages of certain products being reported throughout the country.
Canadian National Railway Co. is expected to release Q4 results on Tuesday.
The Montreal-based company announced in December that former executive Jim Vena had removed himself from the running to become the company's new CEO.
CN says it expects to announce a replacement for outgoing CEO Jean-Jacques Ruest in January.
The Bank of Canada is set to release its interest rate decision and monetary policy report on Wednesday.
Economists increasingly expect the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates after Statistics Canada reported on Jan. 19 that the annual pace of inflation climbed in December to 4.8 per cent, a pace that hasn't been seen since September 1991.
Rogers Communications Inc. is scheduled to release Q4 results on Thursday.
The Toronto-based telecom giant announced on Jan. 10 that it had appointed former chief financial officer Tony Staffieri permanent president and chief executive officer.
Staffieri replaced Joe Natale, who left the company in November amid a family squabble between chairman Edward Rogers and his mother and two sisters, who are also board members.
Canadian Pacific Ltd. is set to release Q4 results on Thursday.
The Calgary-based railway completed its acquisition of Kansas City Southern on Dec. 14, 2021, paving the way for North America's only railroad that stretches across all three countries.
The U.S. transportation regulator is reviewing the transaction and expects to make a final decision later this year.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 23, 2022.
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.
Three bodies recovered in an area of Baja California are likely to be those of the two Australians and an American who went missing last weekend during a camping and surfing trip, the state prosecutor’s office said 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.
Almost a week after all London Drugs stores across Western Canada abruptly closed amid a cyberattack, they began a "gradual reopening" on Saturday.
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.
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