By Murray Sherriffs
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Talks have resumed in the Air Canada flight attendants strike, with the help of a mediator.
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The presidents of two major Quebec unions fear Quebec workers will soon face the same treatment as striking Air Canada flight attendants; that a provincial law passed in May gives Quebec’s labour minister the power to end a labour dispute by imposing arbitration when the strike or lockout is deemed likely to cause serious harm to the public but will encourage companies to simply “…drag their feet, sit back in negotiations and simply wait for government intervention.”
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Federal jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says an investigation has been launched into the “deeply disturbing” allegations, flight attendants work unpaid for any work done, when an aircraft hasn’t pulled away from the gate.
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Hundreds of protesters joined the multi-union Workers’ Alliance in Phillips Square in downtown Montreal yesterday, marching to Air Canada’s headquarters at Square Victoria, claiming “…the illegal strike flight attendants strike is necessary and is the beginning of something” and Workers’ Alliance Montreal representative Emma Dowson says “…Premier Legault and Prime Minister Carney think they can break our leverage with laws and decrees, but power doesn’t come from the Code, it comes from people, from anger, and what they’re seeing now is only a taste of what awaits them, if they keep pushing.”
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28-year-old Sid Ali Tamrabet, arrested for threatening a Jew and several others in Saint Laurent last week, has been released from custody after being charged with three criminal offences: harassment of a woman and her family; and two counts of uttering death threats to a man on August 10 and 15; and threatening two other men on August 9—he will be back in court in October.
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Scores of students attending Montreal’s LaSalle College are worried about paying their bills after being shifted to part-time status, as the school works to comply with Quebec’s language reform, because part-time students aren’t eligible for Canada’s post-graduation work permit and cannot work off-campus, while they’re studying, if certain conditions aren’t met.
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Ensemble Montréal city councillor Stephanie Valenzuela will run for mayor of Notre Dame de Grace-Côte-des-Neiges in the upcoming municipal election.
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Sun Youth co-founder Sid Stevens has passed, after dedicating more than 70 years helping the most vulnerable of Montrealers.
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Montreal has lifted the water ban for residents of L’Île-Bizard, Pierrefonds-Roxboro, Dollard, Senneville and Sainte Anne de Bellevue.
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Montreal motorists who use Dr. Penfield Avenue, between McTavish and Pine are digesting the closure of the road for the next eight years.
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A study by McGill University has determined the city needs more bike lanes because they only take up two percent of the city’s streets and more and more micro-mobility vehicles are hitting the roads.
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A motorcyclist has been killed, slamming into a power pole in Saint Roch Ouest, north of Montreal.
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Drinking water from a plastic bottle left in a hot car can hurt you.
High temperatures and prolonged sun exposure can create conditions that lead to both chemical leaching from the bottles and encourage bacterial growth.
Dr. Paul Savage;
…toxin expert and chief medical officer at MDLifespan in Chicago;
…says when PET-containing bottles sit in the heat, the polymer chains in the plastic start to break down and cause the release of various chemicals, including trace amounts of phenol, like bisphenol A (BPA) and phthalates, into the water.
Nicole Deziel;
…environmental epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health;
…says “Phenols and phthalates are endocrine disruptors that interfere with the natural hormones in the body.
Plastics can start leaching chemicals when temperatures reach 85 degrees.Even BPA-free bottles may not be a safer alternative.
Many of these products use chemical substitutes and Savage says they are structurally similar to BPA and may have similar endocrine-disrupting effects.
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Cloud / 22 today
Showers / 24 tomorrow
