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Canada’s largest airline has started cancelling flights during the peak summer travel season ahead of a strike by more than 10,000 flight attendants over what they say are “poverty wages” and unpaid labour for work when planes are not in the air. Air Canada said it would start suspending flights on Thursday ahead of full shutdown on Saturday after the …

Reuters Air Canada will begin cancelling flights on Thursday after the union representing its flight attendants voted to strike. Canada’s largest airline will begin suspending flights on Thursday after the union representing its flight attendants issued a 72-hour strike notice. Air Canada will begin gradually suspending flights over that period, the carrier said, warning that passengers without confirmed flights should …

MONTREAL — Air Canada said Wednesday it will begin a gradual suspension of flights to allow an orderly shutdown of the country’s largest airline as it faces a potential work stoppage by its flight attendants on Saturday. The airline said the first flights will be cancelled Thursday, with more on Friday and a complete cessation of flying by Air Canada …

Air Canada to Suspend Flights as Flight Attendants’ Union Issues Strike Notice  The Wall Street Journal Air Canada seeks government intervention as contract talks with flight attendants stall  Reuters Air Canada says it will begin cancelling flights ahead of possible weekend strike  CBC Air Canada no longer wants to negotiate  Canadian Union of Public Employees Air Canada’s Flight Attendants Plan to Strike From Saturday  Bloomberg.com …

Sixty-six million years ago, what is now pine forest and bayou lay beneath a warm inland sea. In that Cretaceous Gulf, the apex hunters were mosasaurs – serpentine marine reptiles that could stretch nearly 50 feet nose to tail. Research led by SMU paleontologist Michael J. Polcyn has compiled the first comprehensive portrait of these creatures in Louisiana, combining scattered …

A Japanese spacecraft is on a remarkable journey toward one of the most puzzling celestial objects in our solar system — a dark comet. These enigmatic bodies, neither fully asteroids nor classic comets, have baffled scientists with unexplained bursts of acceleration, all without the visible tails that define their icy counterparts. When the Hayabusa2 probe reaches its target, 1998 KY26, …

The ripple effects of the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike continue. On Friday, August 8, the WGA announced that Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar had been expelled from the union for writing the HBO limited series, “The Sympathizer,” while their fellow writers were picketing. This is not the first discipline action from the union in regard to the strike. …

Trump Warned Courts Not to Strike Down Tariffs. What Could Happen If They Do.  Barron’s Trump warns of another Great Depression if court strikes down tariffs  CNN Trump says US court ruling against tariff authority ‘would be 1929 all over again’  Yahoo Finance Trump warns courts against knocking down tariffs, says duties are ‘huge positive’ for stock market  CNBC “Our Country Deserves Greatness”: Trump …

The Robert Downey Jr. produced and starring The Sympathizer came and went last year with a lot less fanfare than many expected due to the talent involved and the fact the miniseries was based on Viet Thanh Nguyen‘s Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name. However, some unexpected fallout from the Emmy-nominated Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar created and written …

The Writers Guild of America announced Friday that it has expelled two members, Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar, for writing on their HBO miniseries “The Sympathizer” during the 2023 strike. Park and McKellar co-created the seven-episode series, which starred Hoa Xuande and Robert Downey, Jr. and was based on the 2015 novel of the same name by writer Viet Thanh …