Month: September 2024

Public services in Quebec are becoming dehumanized, warns Quebec Ombudsman Marc-André Dowd in his 2023-2024 annual report, which is filled with concrete examples.

A Winnipeg university has been evacuated due to a suspicious item on campus.

Fifteen families in Transcona received keys to their brand-new homes Wednesday, becoming the first residents to move into a new Habitat for Humanity Manitoba development.

With the matter returning to council next month, residents are encouraged to provide feedback for the proposed community hub in a portion of the Downtown Chatham Centre.

The Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) began today’s trading in the red, after it announced estimated catastrophe losses for the month of August of $272 million or $215 million, after-tax, including favorable reserve reestimates for prior period events.Catastrophe losses for August include 15 events estimated at $306 million, with approximately $75 million related to a hail event in Calgary, Canada. The Calgary hail event estimate includes reinsurance reinstatement premiums and is net of anticipated reinsurance recoveries of $225 million.Total catastrophe losses for July and August were $814…

Commercial aircraft manufacturer Boeing Co. (BA) has furloughed tens of thousands of employees as a strike by 30,000 machinists drags on and halts the company’s production.Work on Boeing’s 737 MAX, and other aircraft, has been stopped, leading the company to layoff thousands of workers that it says aren’t currently needed. In a staff memo that’s been made public, Boeing chief executive officer (CEO) Kelly Ortberg said: “We are planning for selected employees to take one week of furlough every four weeks on a rolling basis for the duration of the strike.”Boeing has 150,000 employees…

Canada’s oilsands industry remains under pressure to reduce its greenhouse gas footprint, even as companies have clamped down on public communications in the wake of new anti-greenwashing legislation.

The federal Liberals’ political lieutenant for Quebec, Pablo Rodriguez, is to make it official on Thursday morning that he will run for the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ).

Officers with the Toronto police’s traffic services unit are investigating after a 46-year-old woman was struck by a GO train at Long Branch Station on Tuesday.

Quebec provincial police (SQ) are trying to locate witnesses after a man was found dead on the Metropolitan Expressway (A-40) on Sept. 12.