Union blasts company, provincial governments over layoffs at plant near North Bay
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It’s been a devastating week for Temiscaming, a town in northwestern Quebec located on the Ontario-Quebec border.
It’s been a devastating week for Temiscaming, a town in northwestern Quebec located on the Ontario-Quebec border.
Rayonier Advanced Materials shut down the high-purity cellulose plant operations indefinitely Monday morning, laying off 275 employees.
“The final sheet came off the dry machine in the specialty cellulose mill at around 6:30 a.m.,” said UNIFOR Local 233 president Stephane Lefebvre.
“This means the end for a lot of people and a lot of lost jobs.”
The company that owns the plant, Rayonier Advanced Materials (RYAM) headquartered out of Jacksonville, Fla., announced the layoffs in late April, citing sluggish sales.
“Given current market conditions and high capital and fixed costs associated with the HPC plant, this decision will help mitigate the plant’s ongoing operating losses and improve the company’s consolidated free cash flow,” the company said in a previous news release.
But the union is blasting the company for abandoning the municipality.
Former British Columbia premier Christy Clark, who is considering a run for federal Liberal leader, has backtracked on her claim this week that she'd never been a member of the Conservative party.
Fire officials in Smiths Falls are warning the public over the dangers of ice after a 14-year-old boy fell into freezing waters on Friday afternoon.
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Garage sale season started a little early in Saskatoon this year. The SPCA held a garage sale Saturday to make use of some its more abundant gently used donations that might go unused.
The 66-year-old man accused of holding up a Holt Renfrew store in downtown Vancouver last month has died, the BC Coroners Service confirmed Saturday.
Transport Minister Anita Anand announced on social media Saturday she will not seek the leadership of the Liberal Party, nor will she run for re-election in the riding of Oakville.
A man and a woman from Blind River have been charged with first-degree murder and a third person has been charged with accessory to murder after the fact.
It was only a simulation, but for students in the Paramedic program at Fanshawe College saving a mother and her baby from a car wreck is a possible scenario they will encounter in the coming weeks.
Fire services rescued three children from a house fire in Lower Sackville, N.S., Saturday.
Current and former Liberal party officials, both French and English speakers, say the next Liberal leader replacing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should be bilingual.
Alberta RCMP are asking people to avoid travel Saturday due to poor driving conditions in areas across Central and Northern Alberta.