Calgarians panicked as Canada Post strike enters fourth week
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The impacts of the Canada Post strike are ramping up as other shippers pause their pick-ups to clear growing backlogs.
The impacts of the Canada Post strike are ramping up as other shippers pause their pick-ups to clear growing backlogs.
Purolator and UPS have both temporarily halted shipments from some courier companies as they try to work through a deluge of deliveries brought on by the strike.
Small businesses in Calgary say it’s creating an even bigger backlog at the height of the holiday shipping season.
“We’ve got 10 to 15 containers full of packages just in Calgary alone that they need to process before they can take anything new,” KnifeWear’s Ellie Pickett said.
“It really hurts with two or three weeks until Christmas, and shipping date deadlines cutting off. We just had that big Black Friday rush and we can’t get people their packages.
“We’re kind of screwed right now.”
KnifeWear employees and its customers aren’t alone in their misery.
With the number of homeless people in Saskatoon at an unprecedented high, it’s no surprise people are looking for places to warm up.
The next chapter of the Lemay Forest saga has unfolded as the sounds of trees coming down could be heard Monday.
The stormy weather in the forecast for B.C.'s South Coast is already disrupting many Christmas Day travel plans.
A break in, theft, and continued property damage has led to the boarding up of the Palace Theatre over the Christmas holidays.
Police in Nova Scotia are investigating after two deaths in Truro, N.S., over the weekend have been ruled homicides.
Calgary police shut down Glenmore Trail overnight following a crash between a car and a crane truck.
Ontario's Human Rights Tribunal has awarded members of an Indigenous family in North Bay $15,000 each after it ruled they were victims of discrimination.
A heavy snowfall has guaranteed much of Quebec a white Christmas, but it has also sent cars skidding off the province's roads during the busy holiday travel period.
For many of the women attending My Sister’s Place (MSP) in London, Ont. the holidays are a difficult time.
RCMP in New Brunswick are investigating after a business in Janeville was broken into and a number of items were stolen.
Canada appears to be barrelling toward a spring election now that the NDP is vowing to vote down the government early next year -- whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stays on or not.