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Will Legault-Trudeau bromance boost Libs in next election? By Kevin Dougherty. Published on Jul 19, 2021 4:40pm Quebec Premier François Legault (left) with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Ottawa International Airport in October 2018 (Matthew Usherwood/iPolitics)
Sitting side by side in Montreal last week, Quebec Premier François Legault and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that their governments were spending $685 million out of $2 billion in total to build hybrid and electric-powered aircraft.
Along with their top ministers, Legault and Trudeau were joined by executives of the three Montreal companies getting government aid: Pratt & Whitney Canada, Bell Textron Canada, and CAE.
He announced grants of up to $20,000 each to community, religious, sports and arts organizations in areas where vaccine uptake has been low. The money can be spent on anything from outreach programs to prizes such as tickets to a sporting event. Pallister also left the door open to providing incentives directly to people.
About two-thirds of eligible Manitobans have received at least one dose of vaccine, but areas lagging behind include core neighbourhoods in Winnipeg and some rural areas south of the capital.
Pallister said there s no easy answer, but low rates can be linked to mobility issues, language barriers and cultural or religious concerns
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Quebec public sector workers’ struggle at the crossroads
Demonstration of health care workers protesting inhumane working conditions, including lack of PPE and endless hours of forced overtime, during the pandemic’s first wave in spring 2020.
The struggle Quebec’s 550,000 public sector workers are waging against the efforts of the right-wing Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) provincial government to impose new wage-cutting contracts on them is in grave danger. The province’s major labour federations the Quebec Federation of Labour (QFL), the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CNTU) and the
Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ) have all announced in recent days that they have reached “global agreements” with the government of the ex-Air Transat CEO François Legualt.