Laval Mayor Stéphane Boyer announced Wednesday that he would run for a second term as mayor of the city on Montreal’s North Shore. Boyer, 37, said in a press release that he wanted to continue to defend the interests of Laval,
The official line out of Amazon is that the decision to shut down its operations is entirely related to cost-cutting. Per a statement given to the CBC, the company reviewed its Québec operations and found “returning to a third-party delivery model supported by local small businesses,
Amazon couldn’t shut down just the unionized Laval warehouse, “so the remaining option was to nuke their entire Quebec operations,” says McGill University’s Barry Eidlin.
The Montréal Roses have confirmed they will be playing their inaugural season of the Northern Super League at Centre Sportif Bois-de-Boulogne in Laval.
A CBC News investigation has found the two largest police forces in Quebec — the Montreal police and the Sûreté du Québec — have lost a total of four guns since 2020. While experts say mistakes can happen,
Amazon says it's closing all seven of its warehouses in the Canadian province of Quebec over the next two months.
Unions had gained a foothold in one of the company’s warehouses in the province, though Amazon would not say if there was a connection.
Amazon has announced plans to close all of its Quebec facilities, laying off 1,700 permanent employees, months after workers in Laval, Que., made history by unionizing. Experts say the move could prompt legal challenges under Quebec labour laws.
A company spokesperson said Amazon will outsource deliveries to smaller contractors. The spokesperson insisted that the decision was tied to cost savings — not the recent unionization of about 200 employees at the Laval,
Amazon.com said it is closing its warehouses in Quebec and returning to a third-party delivery model, a move which the province's labor representatives called an attack on employees and the union.
The online giant said its decision to close seven warehouses is unrelated to labour organizing, but others say it’s part of a pattern to stamp out unions
The Honourable Manon Jeannotte, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, will preside over a special ceremony at the Palace Convention Centre in Laval, to honor 86 citizens from the Greater Montreal Area who have been awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal.