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Canada Post workers held retirement party amid soaring COVID-19 cases
Workers at a Canada Post sorting plant in Mississauga hosted a retirement party just days before a partial shut down of the facility in April due to a COVID-19 outbreak.
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Posted: May 05, 2021 10:46 PM ET | Last Updated: May 6
An exterior sign outside Canada Post Gateway West plant in Mississauga. Workers at this plant held a farewell party for a colleague just days before Peel Public Health partially shut it down.(Oliver Walters/CBC)
Workers at a Canada Post sorting plant in Mississauga hosted a retirement party just days before a partial shut down of the facility in April due to a COVID-19 outbreak.
Published Thursday, May 6, 2021 12:04AM EDT Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie says she is disappointed that a retirement party was held at a Canada Post facility where there had been COVID-19 outbreaks. At a news conference on Wednesday afternoon, the mayor said she was shocked to learn about the “incredibly irresponsible situation” at the Gateway facility located in the area of Dixie Road and Eglinton Avenue East. “I am extremely disappointed in the workers over at Canada Post. They have already been subject to a number of shutdowns, of closures, partial closures,” Crombie said. “If they had a house party, there would be no different. We would have been over there and ticketing it.”
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