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Air Transat and the union representing its flight attendants, a unit of The Canadian Union of Public Employees, have reached a tentative agreement subject to a vote to renew their collective agreement, according to a press release the airline released today. Details of the agreement will be presented to members and voted on in the coming days, according … Read more
Hasbro said on Monday it would cut another 900 jobs globally, nearly a year after the toymaker announced it would reduce 15 per cent of its workforce amid weaker sales. Hasbro had said in January it would cut about 1,000 full-time positions. On Monday, the company said it had already cut 800 jobs. Hasbro had employed … Read more
To the untrained eye, the collection of pipes and structures rising out of the prairie 200 kilometres east of Calgary looks like any other natural gas processing plant in southern Alberta. But the Steveville plant isn’t focused on extracting hydrocarbons. Instead, the prize it’s seeking deep underground is helium. The element is most commonly associated with … Read more
PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan, the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) chief executive officer, is tipped to be the next Finance Minister II in the expected Cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday (Dec 12). Amir Hamzah, who joined EPF in March 2021, is one of several changes to the reshuffle by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar … Read more
McDonald’s is expecting to go through a growth spurt. The Chicago-based burger giant wants to establish thousands of new locations around the globe in the next few years, aiming to have 50,000 locations operating by 2027. That’s up roughly 25 per cent from more than 40,000 McDonald’s locations in operation today. The company says its anticipated expansion would represent the … Read more
Ram Charan and Chiranjeevi recently were seen spending time in Italy as they attended the wedding of Varun Tej Konidela and Lavanya Tripathi. While they have returned to India and resumed their respective shoot schedules, fans were merely surprised to see that the duo met up with Ted Sarandos, the CEO of Netflix. Chiranjeevi and … Read more
Federal Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s claim that Canada can achieve carbon neutrality in 2050 while simultaneously increasing oil and gas production is “incoherent.” Smith has long argued that carbon neutrality is about a transition away from emissions and not a transition away from oil and gas production, a source of … Read more
Actor NTR Jr never fails to win hearts, be it with his on-screen charisma or off-screen generosity. Currently busy working on his highly anticipated next Devara, NTR Jr hosted a lavish luncheon at his house for Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos, Netflix content head Monika Shergill, South Content Head, Netflix Abhishek Goradia and Content Acquisition (South) … Read more
