In following the progression of the Canada Post strike, I’ve seen nothing but headlines focused on the small business owners who are suffering, the freelancers who are not receiving their cheques, the families whose “Christmases are being held hostage.” I am an independent contractor, a freelancer and a small business owner, and I rely solely […]
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Police continue arresting labour activists
Labour activists protesting the back-to-work legislation forced onto unionized Canada Post employees keep running afoul of police. A news release from the group Organizing 4 Justice says cops in Ottawa arrested four protesters early Wednesday morning as they were picketing outside a mail processing plant. A video shared on Facebook shows a man identified as […]
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NDP promise to bring back door-to-door mail (if they win)
[Image-1] As announced today by Dartmouth MP Robert Chisholm, the NDP are promising to bring back door-to-door home mail delivery if elected this fall. “I’m proud today to tell my constituents that an NDP government would reverse this terrible decision and restore home mail delivery to those from whom it’s been taken,” Chisholm declared to […]
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Big savings on postage
[Image-1] Last week The Coast published an investigative cover story on community mailbox placement in Halifax. It was met with strong public outcry, including such comments as “clickbait trash” and “who cares?” Something that didn’t make it into the article, because I only found out about it late last week, is the list of “corporate […]
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Halifax’s mail fail
Right now it’s quiet on Chandler Drive. There’re no squealing tires or screeching brakes—no crash of metal into metal. Not yet, anyway. There’s still plenty of traffic up above, on Glendale Drive. The point where the two streets intersect may be one of the most dangerous turns in Lower Sackville. Less than 30 metres down […]
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Canada Postal Service no longer a government service
Recently I received a small parcel from Idaho. Postal cost: $5.99US ($6.25CDN). I asked the postal clerk how much it was to mail it back. She weighed it and said, “$11.40—over 75 percent more, but,” she added, “it’s going out of the country so you don’t have to pay GST. If it were going to […]