The General Employees Union of British Columbia (BCGEU) reached an interim agreement with the employer of liquor store and distribution employees on Wednesday, bringing some relief to liquor stores and restaurants that have been struggling with the impacts of the ongoing labor action. Fets Whisky Kitchen on Commercial Drive in Vancouver says that the liquor sales limits resulting from BC Labor action by the General Employees' Union could soon prohibit them from preparing some drinks on their menu. No more than three individual items can be purchased per customer, per day, at BC Liquor Stores. The Alliance of Beverage Licensees says it surveyed its members and found that the industry is not optimistic.
Around 80 percent of bars, restaurants, pubs and nightclubs say they are anxious about their establishments. Guignard says that even after the strike ends, it will take some time to process orders for alcoholic beverages. Contract talks between BC have resumed. The government and the union last week. Twelve Canadians — five crew members and seven passengers on a Pivot Air flight — who have been detained in the Dominican Republic since last spring, learned Friday that they are going home.
Passengers who flew from Jamaica to Canada last week have been comforting themselves in a WhatsApp group since the experience, which they say involved a plane so hot that several people fainted. Mark Kelly won his bid for re-election Friday in the crucial state of Arizona, defeating Republican venture capitalist Blake Masters to put his party one victory away from taking control of the chamber during the next two years of Joe Biden's presidency. A doctor who police say has spent two decades providing medical assistance to youth hockey teams in Michigan and Minnesota has been charged after Detroit-area patients accused him of sexual assault. Canada has been named one of the 50 places in the world to retire, according to a report by a European travel website. This was supposed to be a fun-filled field trip for a group of soccer fans to watch a Buffalo Bills home game. Instead, it became a disaster-filled trip in which his bus was impounded in the US.
President Donald Trump is suing the House of Representatives committee investigating January. The Capitol will avoid cooperating with a subpoena that requires you to testify. A young woman made two heartbreaking attempts to escape her ruthless pimp, including jumping out of a third-story window, before being rescued by a ride-sharing driver who participated in a shooting with the man, Seattle prosecutors said. Children across the country are fighting a respiratory illness that doesn't yet have a vaccine. CTVNews, ca offers you what we know about current and possible future treatments for RSV. Police in Victoria police are investigating after one of their officers opened the door of their parked cruise ship against a passing cyclist, knocked the driver to the ground and sent him to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
In one of his last public appearances as Prime Minister of British Columbia, John Horgan attended a small Remembrance Day ceremony in Sooke, BC. It seems that a photographer from Calgary, a prisoner in the Dominican Republic for the past eight months, is finally heading home. A second suspect has been charged in connection with the summer death of Shawn McCormack. Police have ruled that the death of a woman who was found on Jasper Avenue in Edmonton with multiple gunshot wounds was a homicide. A 55-year-old man who spent nearly 24 hours waiting for a bed in an emergency room last month says Ontario's healthcare system isn't working. The Hospital for Sick Children says it will suspend some surgical procedures in an attempt to “preserve intensive care capacity” amid a significant increase in patient volume. Four people were injured and sent to hospital after a shooting near the Collège Montmorency in Laval, police say.
The shooting took place in a green space near the university, according to Laval police spokeswoman Geneviève Major. Police set up a perimeter around the school that declared a closure while officers searched for at least one suspect. Some daycare owners are concerned about the latest COVID-19 recommendations issued by the Montreal Department of Public Health (DSP). It was only this week that they learned that children with COVID-19 can still attend daycare as long as they don't have a fever. The guide aligns with current recommendations for the general public, as described last week by Dr.
Luc Boileau, the province's public health director, but some are surprised that it applies to young children in daycare centers. Police say a 19-year-old man is facing charges after he was arrested Friday wearing a bulletproof vest at a university south of Montreal. The CEGEP in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu was quickly closed after police received a 911 call from a man who was behaving suspiciously around 9 in the morning. Shovels have been recovered from garages, snow plows are being started and plows have returned to city streets. The first gust of winter weather hit Winnipeg Thursday night, causing the city's roads to be covered in snow and temporarily closing some roads in Manitoba. A mother and her young son have landed in Winnipeg, reuniting their family for the first time in months. November 11 took on new meaning this year for members of the Ukrainian community in Winnipeg. Thousands of people flocked to the SaskTel Center for the return of in-person Remembrance Day services Friday morning.
Dozens of people paid their respects on Remembrance Day at the Nutana Legion in Saskatoon, where the live broadcast of the Sasktel Center service was broadcast. About 100 people ventured out when it was cold to celebrate Remembrance Day at the University of Saskatchewan Memorial Gates. Thousands of people gathered once again at the Brandt Center to celebrate Regina's largest Remembrance Day service after a years-long pause due to the pandemic. Dozens of people gathered at The Cenotaph in Victoria.
