Lauren Collins

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Staff Writer at The New Yorker

Writer at The New Yorker. Citoyenne. Author of When in French. Working on book about Wilmington, NC, 1898 to now.

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Canada Post presents 'best and final' offers to its union

1 week ago | reddeeradvocate.com | Lauren Collins

Canada Post says it's presented its final offers to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. The offers, according to a news release Wednesday (May 28), consider the recommendations of the final report of the Industrial Inquiry Commission tasked with examining the current collective bargaining dispute and the positions of Canada Post and the union. That report was publicly released May 16. One of the recommendations called for phasing out daily door-to-door delivery for individual homes.
Canada Post presents 'best and final' offers to its union

1 week ago | vernonmorningstar.com | Lauren Collins

Canada Post says it's presented its final offers to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. The offers, according to a news release Wednesday (May 28), consider the recommendations of the final report of the Industrial Inquiry Commission tasked with examining the current collective bargaining dispute and the positions of Canada Post and the union. That report was publicly released May 16. One of the recommendations called for phasing out daily door-to-door delivery for individual homes.
Canada 'faces another critical moment', King Charles says during throne speech

1 week ago | mapleridgenews.com | Lauren Collins

King Charles III says Canada "faces another critical moment," alluding to the tariff and sovereignty threats from U.S. President Donald Trump. The king delivered the throne speech Ottawa Tuesday (May 27), marking nearly 70 years since a sovereign – his mother Queen Elizabeth II – first opened Parliament in 1957. The throne speech is meant to outline Prime Minister Mark Carney, and his minority government's, plan for the next four years.
Union of B.C. Municipalities, First Nations call for Bill 15 to be withdrawn

2 weeks ago | saobserver.net | Lauren Collins

The Union of B.C. Municipalities and First Nations Leadership Council have come together to call for a controversial provincial bill to be paused. Bill 15, or the Infrastructure Projects Act, was referred to as overreaching and rushed in a joint news conference by the Union of B.C. Municipalities and First Nations Leadership Council Thursday (May 22). The province says Bill 15 will help build projects faster in B.C., citing uncertain times due to tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
B.C. MP selected as interim NDP leader

1 month ago | trailtimes.ca | Lauren Collins |Lauren Collins

B.C. MP Don Davies is the interim leader of the federal NDP. The NDP's federal council, in consultation with the caucus, selected the Vancouver Kingsway MP Monday night (May 5). Davies will work with the caucus, council and party members to prepare for the leadership race in the months ahead. Davies has held the riding of Vancouver Kingsway since 2008.
Accused in deadly Lapu Lapu attack to be sent for psychiatric assessment

1 month ago | abbynews.com | Lauren Collins

The accused in the deadly Vancouver Lapu Lapu Day festival attack will be getting a psychiatric assessment. Kai-Ji Adam Lo, who is facing eight counts of second-degree murder, was ordered to have an in-custody assessment during a court appearance on Friday in Vancouver provincial court. The court has allowed media to publicly report on the psychiatric assessment, however, the basis for the assessment and why it's necessary, or where it will happen, remains under a publication ban.
PHOTOS: 1870s cannons, German guns unearthed at B.C. construction site

1 month ago | abbynews.com | Lauren Collins

After decades of rumours around what could be buried under the the PNE grounds, the truth is finally surfacing – literally. In late March, during construction of the new Freedom Mobile Arch amphitheatre at Hastings Park at the Pacific National Exhibition grounds in Vancouver, crews found a captured German gun from the First World War. A few weeks later, during sewer installation, a number of other military artifacts were found, including two cannons from the 1870s.
Singh faces questions of dropping NDP support, lack of B.C. rally

1 month ago | abbynews.com | Lauren Collins

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was in Vancouver Tuesday to announce his party's plans to put a permanent ban on foreign homebuyers, but instead questions turned to dropping support for New Democrats. Nationally, the federal NDP is polling at eight per cent.
Carney targeted on Chinese app, election not affected: Task force

1 month ago | reddeeradvocate.com | Lauren Collins

A task force that monitors security and intelligence threats to Canadian elections says there has been some foreign interference, but not enough to prevent a "free and fair election." However, a panel said the activity Chinese-language social media app WeChat "is not affecting Canada's ability to have a free and fair election." The "information operation" is also "contained to one platform and has not spread further, nor is it affecting Canadians’ abilities to make an informed decision about...
B.C. aims to axe the carbon tax, effective April 1

2 months ago | boundarycreektimes.com | Lauren Collins

The carbon tax is set to be eliminated in B.C. as of April 1, with the NDP set to table the legislation the day prior. A release from the Finance Ministry Tuesday (March 25) says the the government is "not only halting the scheduled tax increase, it is tabling legislation Monday, March 31." The province says it's notifying fuel sellers and natural gas retailers now so they can take action to stop collecting the tax from consumers as of April 1.