June 10th 2011

News read by Joshua Nemeroff an d produced by Erica Fisher.

Stories written by Aisha Samu, Erica Fisher and Michael Lemieux.


Air Canada strike as early as Monday

In further strike news, Air Canada customer service and sales workers could go on strike as early as Monday.

About four hundred workers and labour rights activists rallied at Toronto Pearson airport Thursday. They say they will walk off the job if the company does not budge on key concessions.

The key issue is a proposal to change pension plans. The Canadian Auto Workers Union says Air Canada is creating a two-tiered workforce by cutting pensions.


Canadian Found Guilty of Terror Charges

A Canadian has been found guilty of terror charges. Tahawwur Rana was found guilty of conspiring to attack a Danish newspaper. He is a fifty-year-old former member of the Pakistan army with Canadian citizenship.

The newspaper in question famously published cartoons of the prophet Mohammed angering thousands worldwide. Rana was charged with plotting to storm the paper and behead its staff.

The verdict was part of a larger trial involving an American charged with helping the terrorists who were part of the Mumbai attacks in India.


Canada Post to reduce mail delivery service

Canada Post will cut its urban mail delivery service to three days a week as the labour dispute continues. This comes as postal workers continue to shift their twenty four hour strikes to different cities across Canada. Talks between the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and the Crown corporation have been making little progress.


Mutek's Nocturne 2: Modeselektor + Anstam + FaltyDL + Jacques Greene + Sirisumo @ Metropolis

Mutek’s Nocturne 2 was the Modeselektion night – a night of forward thinking party music whose main room line-up was curated by Germany’s Modeselektor.


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