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The Canadian Union of Postal Workers ( CUPW; French: Syndicat des travailleurs et travailleuses des postes [STTP]) is a public-sector trade union representing postal workers including letter carriers, rural and suburban mail carriers, [ 1] postal clerks, mail handlers and dispatchers, technicians, mechanics and electricians employed at Canada ...
Canada Post (French: Postes Canada) is the Federal Identity Program name. The legal name is Canada Post Corporation in English and Société canadienne des postes in French. During the late 1980s and much of the 1990s, the short forms used in the corporation's logo were "Mail" (English) and "Poste" (French), rendered as "Poste Mail" in Québec ...
The 2018 Canada Post strikes were a series of rotating strikes against Canada Post by members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). Strikers sought "better pay, more job security and minimum guaranteed hours." In November 2018, Justin Trudeau's government passed Bill C-89, which ended the strike and mandated the postal workers return ...
The postal and philatelic history of Canada concerns postage of the territories which have formed Canada. Before Canadian confederation, the colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland issued stamps in their own names. The postal history falls into four major periods ...
Ulukhaktok ( Kangiryuarmiutun ( Inuit language) spelling Ulukhaqtuuq ( [ulukhɑqtuːq̚]) and known until 1 April 2006 as Holman or Holman Island) is a small hamlet on the west coast of Victoria Island, in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. Like other small traditional communities in the territories, hunting, trapping, and ...
v. t. e. On the evening of June 15, 2011 in the downtown core of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, a riot broke out almost immediately after the conclusion of the Boston Bruins ' victory over the Vancouver Canucks in game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals to win the Stanley Cup. Nearly 150 people were injured during the incident, including ...
Strike for equal pay for female textile workers, Leeds and surrounding towns (UK). Inspiration for the film Leeds United. Strike at Pilkington glass works in St. Helens, UK (1970). This was the inspiration for the film The Rank and File. US postal strike (1970) Winter of Discontent (UK, 1978–1979) Jeffboat wildcat strike (Indiana, 2001)
In 1937, there was a pressing demand for 1¢, 10¢, and 25¢ coins, but, as the Royal Canadian Mint was waiting for new tools and matrices to arrive from the Royal Mint, the decision was made to strike coins dated 1936, but a dot would be added in the area near the date to indicate that the coins were struck in 1937.