Canada Post still delivering as negos continue
The threat of a work stoppage at Canada Post appears to have receded slightly–at least for the moment. The crown corporation backtracked on its threat to lock out its workers on Monday, saying it hopes...
View ArticleCanada Post and workers agree on tentative deal
Following marathon bargaining sessions over the past week, it now appears all but certain that Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers have avoided a possible service disruption that has...
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New stamps feature Canadian birds
Even as the debate goes on to determine a national bird as a symbol of Canada ( RCI-Aug 31,2016), Canada Post has produced the first in a new series of stamps to showcase our avian residents. While...
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Philatelists: Canada’s spring stamps for 2017
It has become a sort of tradition at Canada Post to help push along the arrival of spring just a bit, by releasing spring flower stamps. Canada Post is the government controlled Crown corporation which...
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Canada 150: Newest stamp for Canada’s 150th birthday
Canada Post this week revealed the newest in the series of ten stamps it is issuing this year to celebrate the country’s 150th anniversary. This one, number 5 in the series, celebrates the 8,000...
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Santa changes the way he will answer letters
Things are getting busy at the North Pole with Santa Claus and the elves getting ready to answer the flood of letters that should start arriving soon. As usual, anyone who wants to write to Santa will...
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Black History Month 2018 : Canada creates new stamps
February each year marks the celebration of Black History Month in Canada, and although we’re still a week away from the official start, Canada Post has already begun to set the stage. This year, as...
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Trudeau says no promises broken in Canada Post controversy
In 2014 when Stephen Harper’s Conservative government announced it was going to phase out door-to-door delivery of mail to about five million households over five years, the reaction was swift. Most...
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Postal workers could be off the job by the end of the month
Canadian postal workers could be off the job by the end of the month. In a month-long vote that wrapped up Sunday, they have given their union, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, a strike mandate by...
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Surprise backlash from trade deal: Canada Post- Canadian retail
(public commenting open on all RCI stories at bottom- Comments will be posted after moderating) Canada is so huge, it’s difficult even for Canadians to imagine. Distances are enormous, but the Crown...
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Postal strikes hurt small business, post office reputation, says analyst
For the last four weeks, intermittent postal strikes have hit different regions of Canada resulting in a massive backlog of undelivered packages and envelopes. This comes at the busiest time of year...
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Liberals move to end Canada Post strike
With Canada’s busiest shopping season ahead of Christmas holidays threatened by a weeks-long rotating postal strike, the federal government is pushing emergency legislation to force Canada Post...
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Senate passes legislation to end Canada Post strike
Canadian postal workers will be forced to resume mail and parcel delivery services at noon Tuesday after the Senate passed legislation ordering an end to five weeks of rotating strikes by Canada Post...
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Trio gives new (old?) meaning to exchanging Christmas cards
When Canada Post announced this week that the cost of mail was going to jump in January, three Regina residents likely greeted the news with little more than a shrug and a smile. Wally and Shirley Ball...
View ArticleBlack History Month: Canada Post celebrates with another stamp
Hockey is Canada’s national winter sport, but historical racism was strong as it was in many other aspects of society, and the teams were white as the snow. It is little known that in the eastern...
View ArticleCanada Post makes changes to its services during COVID-19 outbreak
Canada Post is making changes to its delivery and retail services in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, according to a press release from the company published yesterday. Canada Post will be reducing...
View ArticlePostal union asks Canadians to help with protecting its workers
In order to minimize the risk of spreading COVID-19, and to protect Canada post workers, the Canadain Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) asked its customers to clean and disinfect mailboxes, handrails, and...
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Canada Post says it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Canada Post has confirmed what most Canadians had already pretty much figured out for themselves. Parcel deliveries are not exactly running on time these days as the Crown corporation continues to...
View ArticleCanadian Food Inspection Agency receives over 750 reports of unwanted seeds
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has received more than 750 reports across all Canadian provinces of people receiving unsolicited packages containing unknown seeds. According to a statement...
View ArticleNew Canada Post stamps honour medical contributions of six Canadians
Canada Post has issued a set of five commemorative stamps to honour the contributions made in the medical field by six Canadian physicians and researchers; Drs. Bruce Chown, Julio Montaner, Balfour...
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Canada Post stamp celebrates country’s first female battlefield artist
Canada Post is releasing a new stamp celebrating the work of Mary Riter Hamilton whose paintings and drawings of First World War battlefields in France and Belgium earned her the title of Canada’s...
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Canada Post features N.S folk artist on new stamps for Christmas season.
With the inexorable approach of winter, Canada Post celebrates the upcoming season and holidays with a new series of postage stamps. The three stamp series features the work of Nova Scotia folk artist...
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New stamps feature Canadian animals that turn white in winter
A new set of Canadian postage stamps feature five mammals found in Canada that are especially adapted to winter because their dark coats turn white to provide camouflage in the snow. Among the five,...
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Canada Post is making an offer that’ll be pretty hard to refuse (it hopes)
For Canadians feeling blue-or maybe seeing red–about so many of the ugly consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada Post wants to–hopefully–make things a little better in an old-fashioned way....
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New stamp marks Canadian discovery of insulin
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto, and Canada’s postal service has issued a new stamp to commemorate it. Before the discovery by Canadian...
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