TIFF in gear as hotel workers stage 1-day strike

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Workers at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel began a 24-hour strike at midnight as the Toronto International Film Festival enters its first weekend. Union members were to begin picketing at the Front and York street locating at 7 a.medley. ET. Unite Here Local 75, the coalition representing the 900 employees at the Fairmont, say their patience has urgent application ...

Racist email at Parks Canada causes outrage

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Aboriginal leaders are calling for two Parks Canada employees in Manitoba to subsist fired after the span were disciplined for circulating a racist witticism by email. One employee forwarded the vulgarly worded email, which made fun of aboriginal and black people, to a colleague. That person hereafter accidentally sent it to all 180 Parks Canada workers in the realm ...

Montreal longshoremen reach tentative deal

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Locked-out longshoremen have reached a trying deal with their employer after rocky negotiations that saw the port shut down concerning five days in July. (Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press) The 850 unionized longshoremen who were locked out at the Port of Montreal this summer and employer representatives have existence in possession of reached a probative deal. Local 375 ...

Qur’an burning hangs on mosque meeting: pastor

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The head of a small Florida church says he'll back facing his plan to burn the Qur'an on Sept. 11 if he have power to meet with the organizers of a controversial proposed mahometan temple in New York City. Rev. Terry Jones, leader of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, has been at the midmost point of animadversion ...

B.C. bear scales 3-storey building for tomatoes

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The bear reached the third part pose and got his tomatoes, seen in the window box. (CBC)A disastrous convey in Whistler, B.C., was so intent upon the body getting at a few tomatoes growing in a window case that he climbed a three-storey condominium building to get them. The brook made the clamber Thursday morning as ...
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