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Canadian law enforcement agencies are refusing to release details about a bomb scare at Calgary airport during last year’s G7 event in Kananaskis, Alta. The police had not previously alerted the public about the incident, which was later determined to be a false alarm. It is not clear if the police imposed any precautionary measures while the threat was investigated.

Passengers’ grievances were cited more than twice as often as those of flight attendants in major news outlets’ coverage of the recent WestJet strike, an analysis by The Maple has found. Major television broadcasts and articles cited passengers’ grievances a total of 44 times, while flight attendants’ grievances were cited only 20 times.

National Defence Minister David McGuinty held a closed-door meeting with military industry leaders on July 28, and his department is refusing to disclose the names of those he met with or share details about what was discussed. A spokesperson from the Department of National Defence (DND) told The Maple via email that the meeting was held under “Chatham House Rules,” a protocol that politicians commonly invoke to hide details about closed-door meetings.

Amazon’s campaign to prevent a first collective agreement at its only unionized Canadian warehouse just suffered another legal defeat. On August 4, the British Columbia Labour Relations Board (BCLRB) ordered that bargaining between Amazon Canada and Unifor Local 114 must be resolved through binding first-contract arbitration, accepting a mediator’s conclusion that the company, not the union, was responsible for the breakdown in negotiations.

Winning a federal ban on scabs was a major victory for union members. It was supposed to increase workers’ bargaining leverage and help to rebalance the scales in federally regulated workplaces. Employers would no longer be able to simply hire replacement workers during legal strikes or lockouts, undermine the bargaining process, and prolong disputes until unions were forced to surrender. The law was supposed to mean what it said. The Bank of Canada, however, appears determined to prove otherwise.

The Liberal government is cheering a new deal that will see Bombardier sell business jets to a company controlled by Saudi Arabia. “Bombardier’s agreement with Saudi Arabia’s The Helicopter Company for up to 60 business jets is another global win for Canadian aerospace,” Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand said on X Wednesday. “Another vote of confidence in Canadian workers producing world class aerospace products,” said Maninder Sidhu, minister of international trade.

The new pipeline championed by the federal government has nothing to do with appeasing separatists in Alberta, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday. “The referendum, that doesn’t enter into the calculus. It’s a bigger issue, a more fundamental issue,” he said at an announcement in Red Deer, Alta. alongside Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. The bigger factor is for Canada to remain a reliable supplier of oil, Carney said. “One of the biggest commodities, arguably the best, is trust. People trust us.

Mark Carney’s Liberal government is looking to cash in under the new right-wing presidency of Keiko Fujimori in Peru.

In February 2025, I released Find IDF Soldiers, a database now containing the names and profiles of 206 Canadians who have joined the Israeli military. In December, I released a follow-up project, GTA to IDF, which examines several institutions in the Greater Toronto Area connected to the soldiers. Both websites — which are based entirely on public information — were published to help readers understand how and why Canadians may join the Israeli military.

Nearly a year after Air Canada flight attendants forced unpaid work in the airline industry onto the national agenda, the issue is once again at the centre of a brewing labour dispute. More than 4,400 WestJet flight attendants, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 8125, have delivered an unmistakable rebuke to the company. On July 15, the union announced that 99.4 per cent of workers voted to authorize a strike, with a turnout of 97.3 per cent.