In Winnipeg, tensions would explode. The Winnipeg General Strike culminated in the outbreak of violence. Pictured here, strikers overturn a streetcar during a protest on June 21, 1919.
and other events throughout the city's history -- from key moments in the Winnipeg general strike of 1919 to the Winnipeg Jets' signing of star centre Dale Hawerchuk in 1981. Closed to pedestrians ...
The Canadian Union of Public Employees and the Manitoba Government and General Employees' Union served up notice Tuesday that 25,000 health-care workers will strike Oct. 8, unless the government ...
The Winnipeg General Strike would last more than a month, highlighted by mass protests and eventually violence in the city. It was the largest social revolt in Canadian history. On the political ...
Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon says the federal government currently has no plans to intervene in negotiations after the ...
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The mayor of Delta, home to Canada's largest container terminal, says organized crime groups are exploiting security ...
The union representing full-time professors and librarians at the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) says its members have voted 80.9 per cent in Favour of strike mandate.
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It was the early 1980s, in Winnipeg. Maddin was around 26 and had ... Yes, his father, the general manager of a local hockey team, would lend out young Guy to visiting franchises as a “stick ...