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The head of Canada Post says it is showing “early signs” of financial recovery despite falling revenue and bigger losses in the first half of the year.
CEO Doug Ettinger says the postal service is winning back some of the parcel delivery market that has slipped away since 2019 as it continues with shipping discounts for small businesses and pushes a new online marketplace for them to sell products directly to consumers.
However, he says Canada Post remains “overbuilt” in cities and must be smaller in those urban areas in the future.
Switching the remaining four million addresses that still enjoy doorstep delivery to community mailboxes within about five years marks a key pillar of Canada Post’s plan to overhaul its business model in the face of declining letter mail and mounting financial losses.
The Crown corporation is launching an online tool Thursday that lets customers with door-to-door delivery enter their postal code to see when their area is slated for conversion to a community mailbox, with the first in more than 10 years completed a few days ago in Winnipeg and Sept-Îles, Que.
In August, Canada Post reported losses of $277 million before taxes for the second quarter of the year, marking an improvement from the $407 million in pre-tax losses a year earlier.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 22, 2026.
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A coroner's inquest into the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet is scrambling to find a way forward after the Toronto woman's mother unexpectedly made a new allegation against police officers during her testimony this morning.
Korchinski-Paquet fell from her 24th-floor balcony in the late afternoon of May 27, 2020, while police officers were in the west-end apartment she shared with several family members.
As she described her memories of that day, Claudette Beals told the inquest this morning that she saw officers push her daughter toward the balcony, prompting lawyers for several of the parties to raise concerns in the absence of the jury about previously undisclosed evidence.
Among them were lawyers representing the officers at the scene, who said their clients weren't given a chance to respond to the allegation when they testified earlier this week.
The presiding coroner has called a recess so that counsel can discuss how to proceed.
The inquest has heard Korchinski-Paquet had a history of seizures from epilepsy, often followed by erratic and aggressive behaviour, and had experienced two seizures earlier in the day before police were called over a disturbance involving knives.
One of the province's police watchdogs later cleared the officers of wrongdoing in the fatal fall, which it said happened as she was trying to move from her apartment's balcony to a neighbour's.
The inquest's scope includes how first responders are informed and trained about epilepsy but is not meant to examine the various watchdog investigations into the case.
"There's lots of good things to explore about epilepsy, about public support for families, about awareness of postictal delirium, about police response and how those two can intermingle," presiding coroner Dr. David Cameron said before the recess.
"We've explored lots of great things during this inquest and everyone has worked really well together ... and now we've got a bit of a problem and we'll have to work through it."
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 22, 2026.
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Une priorité sur laquelle il ne perd pas de temps. 👀
Lors de l'assermentation de son cabinet ministériel ce mercredi 21 octobre, le premier ministre Paul St-Pierre Plamondon a promis aux Québécois et aux Québécoises qu'un minimum de trois semaines de vacances payées serait accordé aux travailleurs et travailleuses de la province.
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C'est du moins ce qu'il a laissé entendre en présentant le mandat de son nouveau ministre du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale, Mathieu Lebrun.
« Vous aurez notamment comme mandat d’honorer nos engagements électoraux en matière de normes du travail, entre autres par l’instauration d’un minimum de trois semaines de vacances », a-t-il déclaré.
Le Parti québécois (PQ) soutient que cette promesse faisait bel et bien partie de sa plateforme électorale, bien qu'aucune annonce publique n'a été faite durant les 39 jours de campagne.
En feuilletant la plateforme électorale 2026 du PQ, on constate effectivement que l'engagement d'instaurer un minimum de trois semaines de vacances payées dans les normes du travail figure dans la section consacrée à la famille.
À l'heure actuelle, la Loi sur les normes du travail prévoit un jour de vacances par mois complet de service continu pour les personnes qui travaillent chez un même employeur depuis moins d'un an, et deux semaines de vacances pour celles qui comptent entre un et trois ans de service continu.
Après trois ans de service continu, les personnes salariées ont droit à un minimum de trois semaines de vacances. Les employeurs peuvent toutefois en offrir davantage.
Les trois semaines de vacances payées sont loin d'être le seul engagement du Parti québécois pour faciliter la vie des familles.
Dans sa plateforme électorale de 2026, la formation politique promet notamment de créer 10 000 nouvelles places en CPE d'ici quatre ans, en plus des 15 000 déjà en cours de réalisation, pour un total de 25 000 places supplémentaires d'ici 2030.
Le PQ souhaite également bonifier les allocations familiales jusqu'à 700 $ pour les troisième et quatrième enfants, en plus d'améliorer le Régime québécois d'assurance parentale (RQAP). Il propose notamment de garantir des prestations minimales de 300 $ par semaine, d'augmenter les taux de remplacement du revenu et de permettre aux parents d'utiliser leurs prestations sur une période de trois ans.
Parmi ses autres promesses, on retrouve le remboursement des deuxième et troisième cycles de fécondation in vitro, la prolongation du suivi postnatal des sages-femmes de six semaines à quatre mois et des mesures fiscales pour faciliter l'accès à la propriété grâce au transfert de REER des parents vers leurs enfants.