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Train conductors, engineers, yard workers and rail traffic controllers under Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike mandate Wednesday.
May 3, 2024 - 15:57 | David Baxter | Global News - Canada
The recently released 2023 Ontario Sunshine List of government sector employees earning more than $100,000 has 300,570 names on it. Go back to 1996 and there were 4,501 people earning above that salary. Talk about inflation.If that $100,000 threshold was itself actually adjusted for inflation the number of people on that list should only be 20,789. And that’s because $100,000 ain’t what it used to be. That’s actual inflation.As a kid, I vividly remember ”$2.50 Tuesdays” at the movies. This was decades ago but I still think of it every time I go to the theatre, even though it’s an unfair...
May 3, 2024 - 15:55 | Preet Banerjee | The Globe and Mail
A New Brunswick mayor is defending her town’s new policy that will prohibit Pride banners from being displayed on lampposts in the community – a move a local LGBTQ group says sends a harmful message.During a council meeting Tuesday, Woodstock, N.B., Mayor Trina Jones said the past practice of hanging Pride banners in the town will end under a policy passed in November that says lamppost banners will be reserved for promoting Woodstock-area tourism or heritage.
May 3, 2024 - 15:51 | Lyndsay Armstrong | The Globe and Mail
Canada and Manitoba are launching a pilot alert program — similar to an Amber Alert — that will send out emergency messages when an Indigenous woman or girl goes missing.
May 3, 2024 - 15:48 | | Global News - Canada
A Saskatoon resident who uses cannabis daily to relieve pain from medical issues says the province's zero-tolerance law around THC and driving is causing undue hardships.
May 3, 2024 - 15:38 | Brody Langager | Global News - Canada
A New Brunswick community group that feeds people in need aims to have zero food waste.
May 3, 2024 - 15:36 | Shelley Steeves | Global News - Canada
