115,000 postal workers in Britain are currently being balloted on a sellout agreement reached between Royal Mail management and the Communication Workers Union (CWU). The deal includes the market-based restructuring of Royal Mail, massive attacks on pay and conditions, and plans for up to 10,000 job cuts. Postal workers delivered …
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About the event Modern coronations are carefully rehearsed, but not 1838′s. Only Victoria and one Westminster Abbey official came prepared for the five-hour event. Clergymen skipped pages in the complicated program, in one case dismissing Victoria from the abbey too early; an elderly lord tripped on the slippery steps in …
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A gift for the King! Charles receives new show horse from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police – after selling 12 of the late Queen Elizabeth’s racehorses By Jessica Taylor For Mailonline Published: 17:00 EST, 11 March 2023 | Updated: 17:00 EST, 11 March 2023 King Charles has been gifted a …
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Alan John Park, a long-time member of the Royal Canadian Air Farce comedy troupe, has died. Park died Thursday at the age of 60, eight years after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Born in Scarborough, Ont., Park spent most of his life making people laugh across Canada. The comedian …
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Bridget Lawson, centre, worked in Africa in later life for AMREF, a non-governmental organization that provides health care in East Africa. From 1984 to 1990, she was executive director of AMREF Canada and travelled to Africa twice a year.Courtesy of the Family The Second World War first altered the life …
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Items on display from the communities of the Plains are photographed at the Royal Ontario Museums in the Daphne Cockwell Gallery dedicated to First Peoples art and culture, in Toronto on July, 2019.Tijana Martin/The Globe and Mail The Royal Ontario Museum has temporarily closed its First Nations gallery after conversations …
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In 1959, Queen Elizabeth II made a 45-day visit to Canada. One of CBC television’s top personalities then was Joyce Davidson; during the royal visit, she was a guest on NBC’s Today show in the United States, and was asked what she thought. “Like most Canadians,” she said, “I am …
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Press play to listen to this article LONDON — As Liz Truss gets down to work as Britain’s new prime minister, she faces an immediate problem. Half the British workforce appears to be going on strike. Across the country, rail workers, barristers, dockhands, bus drivers, garbage collectors, Amazon employees, and …
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RBC chief executive Dave McKay speaks at the Royal Bank of Canada annual meeting in Toronto on April 6, 2017.Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press The chief executive of Canada’s largest bank is urging employees to return to the office more frequently, and is saying the bank must become more deliberate about …
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Royal LePage is cutting its expectations for the growth in home prices this year after it says prices in the second quarter fell compared with the first three months of the year. The real estate brokerage says it now expects the aggregate price of a home in Canada in the …
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