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Canada’s new government is introducing sweeping reforms to make bail laws stricter and sentencing laws tougher for repeat and violent offending, to support the front lines, and to invest in long-term prevention. The Bail and Sentencing Reform Act would introduce over 80 clauses of targeted changes to the bail and sentencing framework in the Criminal Code, informed by extensive consultations. ...

Tuesday October 21 2025 2023-2027/349 No. 156 This week, the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates (OGGO) will begin hearings into the situation at Canada Post. This committee was responsible for the broad review of the public post office in 2016 and the more recent examination of rural post offices in 2024. The first meeting is scheduled to take ...

October 17, 2025 Niagara Region, Ontario In a rapidly changing and more dangerous world, Canada is focused on what we can control. We are building our economy with major projects and millions more homes, we are empowering Canadians with lower costs and new opportunities to help you get ahead, and we are protecting our communities and our country. We cannot ...

Friday, October 17 2025 2023-2027/348 No. 155 Yesterday, members of CUPW’s National Executive Board and Negotiating Committees continued their discussions with representatives from Minister Lightbound’s office about the future of the public post office and what it will take to get ratifiable collective agreements. We explained the importance of job security protections in our collective agreements as well as the ...

October 13, 2025 Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt “The release of hostages is a moment of profound relief. After over two years of suffering, today families are finally reunited. For the Jewish people, this is a moment that holds two truths at once – a grief for what cannot be restored, and a fragile light of what might still be repaired. As ...

Le 13 octobre 2025 Charm el-Cheikh (Égypte) « La libération des otages est un moment de profond soulagement. Après plus de deux ans de souffrances, des familles sont enfin réunies aujourd’hui. Pour les personnes juives, ce moment incarne à la fois deux vérités : le deuil de ce qui est perdu à jamais et un fragile espoir de réparation. À ...

Thursday October 9 2025 2023-2027/342 No. 151 Today, we are announcing that starting Saturday, October 11 at 6 AM local time, CUPW will move from a nation-wide strike action to rotating strikes. Locals that will be rotating out will be informed closer to the time when they will take action. While this will start mail and parcels moving, while continuing ...

Thursday, October 9, 2025 2023-2027/341 No. 150 Members of CUPW’s National Executive Board and Negotiating Committees met with the Minister responsible for Canada Post, Joël Lightbound, and his staff on the evening of October 8, 2025, for just over an hour. The Union spoke to Minister Lightbound about a number of issues regarding his recent announcement and its impact on ...

As part of 90-day national consultations on the proposed Management Plan for Polar Bear in Canada, Ontario Nature’s new analysis  reveals the risks Bill 5 poses to the species’ survival. These risks include the repealing of the provincial Endangered Species Act, weaker habitat definitions and ending provincial recovery strategies.   Despite committing to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 37 percent ...

Friday September 26 2025 2023-2027/334 No. 143 Yesterday, when Minister Joël Lightbound announced the Government’s plan to gut Canada Post, he suggested the new Liberal Government had a mandate from Canadians to take “decisive action” on hard political issues. The “new measures” he announced to “save Canada Post,” he said, were just the kind of decisive action Canadians elected the ...

Vendredi 26 Septembre 2025 2023-2027/334 No. 143 Hier, lorsque le ministre Joël Lightbound a dévoilé le plan du gouvernement pour saccager Postes Canada, il a laissé entendre que la population avait confié au gouvernement libéral le mandat d’agir de manière décisive dans les questions politiques complexes. Les nouvelles mesures qu’il a annoncées pour « sauver Postes Canada », a-t-il dit, sont justement le ...

Thursday September 25 2025 2023-2027/332 Bulletin No. 141 Today, the Minister responsible for Canada Post, Joël Lightbound, announced massive changes to the Government’s mandate for Canada Post and huge service cutbacks to the public. This announcement was an outrage. Minister Lightbound gave the Union no indication that he was going to do this when leadership met with him last week. ...

L’annonce faite aujourd’hui par le gouvernement du Canada permettra à notre service postal national de progresser avec succès vers un avenir solide et rentable, au service des besoins en évolution de la population. Le courrier papier est en déclin constant depuis près de vingt ans : Les volumes, qui avaient culminé à 5,5 milliards de lettres en 2006, n’étaient plus qu’à ...

Today’s announcement by the Government of Canada will allow our country’s national postal service to chart a strong, financially sustainable path forward that supports the changing needs of Canadians. Letter mail has been steadily declining for almost two decades, down from 5.5 billion letters in 2006 – Canada’s peak mail year – to two billion letters last year, and that ...

Aujourd’hui, l’honorable Joël Lightbound, ministre de la Transformation du gouvernement, des Travaux publics et de l’Approvisionnement, a fait la déclaration suivante : « Postes Canada est une institution nationale, plus ancienne que notre pays lui-même, qui sert la population canadienne depuis plus de 150 ans. Depuis des générations, les travailleurs et travailleuses des postes relient les collectivités partout au pays, offrant un ...