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With 737 Max grounded, airlines face daily scheduling and route challenges
Following the global grounding of Boeing's 737 Max jets, U.S. and Canadian airlines that fly the roughly 175-seat aircraft face a fresh logistical challenge every day: which flights to cancel and which to cover with other planes. Southwest Airlines and American Airlines Group, the two ...
Stakes rise for Boeing as EU and Canada up scrutiny of 737 Max after crashes
Europe and Canada said they would seek their own guarantees over the safety of Boeing's 737 Max, further complicating plans to get the aircraft flying worldwide after they were grounded in the wake of two accidents killing more than 300 people. As the U.S. Federal ...
Hundreds of thousands of youth activists join world climate demonstration
Hundreds of thousands of young people skipped school across the globe on Friday to march through the streets for an international day of student protests aimed at pushing world leaders into action on climate change. Classrooms in metropolises from Bangkok to Berlin and Lagos to ...
Netflix pulls footage of Quebec rail disaster from film 'Bird Box'
Netflix said Thursday it would pull footage of a 2013 Canadian rail disaster from its film "Bird Box," and apologized for any pain it caused. The archival images of the deadly Lac Megantic, Quebec, train derailment had already been swapped out of another Netflix series, ...
Japan and U.S. join rest of the world in grounding Boeing 737 Max jets as crash data raise concerns
The ban on the Boeing 737 Max aircraft became worldwide on Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump joined Canada and other countries in grounding the aircraft amid intense pressure about the safety concerns. Demands grew for urgent answers over the safety of the Boeing 737 ...
Canada joined much of the world in barring the Boeing 737 Max 8 jet from its airspace on Wednesday, saying satellite tracking data show possible but unproven similarities between the Ethiopian Airliner crash that killed 157 people and a previous crash involving the model ...
Canadian charged with smuggling record haul of stimulant drugs into Japan worth ¥1.8 billion
A Canadian man was charged Monday with attempting to smuggle about 30 kilograms of stimulant drugs through Narita airport, the biggest amount ever seized by Japanese customs authorities from a passenger's luggage. Jonathan Isabelle, 21, who was arrested on his arrival at the international airport ...
Japan Tobacco's Canada unit gets court protection after potentially crushing legal defeat in Quebec
Japan Tobacco Inc.'s Canadian unit was granted creditor protection by the Ontario Superior Court after a legal defeat over the risks of smoking threatens the existence of tobacco companies in the country. The court extended protection in favor of JTI-Macdonald Corp. after the company argued ...
Canada's no-sex, no-money 'pseudo-scandal' could nonetheless topple Trudeau
There's no money, no sex and nothing illegal happened. This is what passes for a scandal in Canada. U.S. President Donald Trump has been engulfed in allegations involving possible collusion with Russia and secret payments to buy the silence of a porn star. Canadian Prime ...
Canadian golden boy Trudeau tarnished by political scandal as elections loom
Justin Trudeau rose to power in Canada as a champion of feminism and indigenous rights, quickly earning him golden boy status at home and abroad as a progressive leader. But a major political scandal that sparked the resignation of two of his ministers — both ...
Trudeau maintains he didn't apply inappropriate pressure in corruption case
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that an "erosion of trust" and "lack of communication" with his former justice minister led her to resign and accuse him of applying inappropriate pressure in a corruption prosecution — a dispute that has shaken his government. But ...
China's Huawei launches court challenge to U.S. law limiting market access over security risks
Chinese tech giant Huawei is launching a U.S. court challenge to a law that labels the company a security risk and would limit its access to the American market for telecom equipment. Huawei Technologies Ltd.'s announcement Thursday comes as the biggest global maker of network ...
