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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 ...

Today, the Honourable Joël Lightbound, Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement, issued the following statement: “Canada Post is a national institution, older than our country itself, that has been serving Canadians for more than 150 years. For generations, postal workers have connected communities in every corner of the country, providing an essential lifeline to hundreds of northern, Indigenous, and ...

September 14, 2025 Ottawa, Ontario Canadians are in a housing crisis. Despite recent improvements in several cities, far too many Canadians – particularly young Canadians – are struggling to find homes they can afford. Canada’s new government is stepping up with a bold new approach and unprecedented investments to increase the housing supply in Canada. Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, launched Build ...

Le 11 septembre 2025 Edmonton (Alberta) « Il y a 24 ans jour pour jour, le monde s’est transformé pour toujours après l’attentat terroriste le plus meurtrier jamais survenu en sol américain. Quelque 3 000 personnes avaient perdu la vie dans ce brutal attentat, dont 24 Canadiens et Canadiennes. Dans les jours qui ont suivi, la population canadienne a accompagné ...

September 11, 2025 Edmonton, Alberta “On this day 24 years ago, the world was forever changed after the deadliest-ever terrorist attack on American soil. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in this brutal attack, including 24 Canadians. In the days that followed, Canadians stood with our American neighbours – showing friendship to those who were in need, and solidarity in ...

September 10, 2025 Edmonton, Alberta In a rapidly shifting global landscape, we need to act decisively to build a stronger, more competitive, and prosperous economy. To those ends, the government tabled the Building Canada Act, which Parliament passed this June. This legislation enables the government to streamline federal approval processes to get major projects built faster. These projects will better connect our economy, diversify our ...

Le 7 septembre 2025 Aujourd’hui, l’honorable Eleanor Olszewski, ministre de la Gestion des urgences et de la Résilience des Communautés et ministre responsable de Développement économique Canada pour les prairies, a fait la déclaration suivante : « À l’occasion du Jour commémoratif national des pompiers, prenons le temps de rendre hommage aux pompiers qui servent courageusement notre pays. Ces braves personnes ...