Balmoral unveils new visual rebrand and new agency partnership with China’s Cross Communication Group (CCG)

Canada’s longest-running national multicultural marketing agency adds unparalleled new digital and social ethnic marketing prowess to its team Toronto, ON – Balmoral Multicultural Marketing, one of Canada’s leading and longest-running national ethnic marketing agencies unveiled a new multi-coloured logo and visual re-brand today, designed to reflect a new era in …

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BrandSpark International announces Canada’s Most Trusted Online Retailers as voted by Canadian shoppers in a national study

Canadian shoppers most trusted online retail brands named across 12 categories TORONTO — Leading market research firm BrandSpark International today announced the 2016 BrandSpark Most Trusted Awards winners for Canadian Online Retail. The results were based on the annual BrandSpark Canadian Shopper Study. “Seven in 10 Canadians identify themselves as online …

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CPC, CUPW continue to meet

Negotiations are continuing in an effort to achieve new collective agreements for both the RSMC and Urban bargaining units. The parties are working long hours to achieve this goal. We remain committed to negotiating fair collective agreements, as we have since the beginning of this process. We’re encouraged that Canada …

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Postal service will not be interrupted while talks continue

OTTAWA – Earlier today, the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, MaryAnn Mihychuk, encouraged both Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers to continue their discussions beyond the lockout notice. Accordingly the Corporation has withdrawn its 72-hour notice. As a result, there will not be a lockout, …

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Postal workers call for one-month cooling-off period, “intensive negotiations”

OTTAWA – Postal workers are proposing a 30-day cooling off period to Canada Post management to address concerns about “uncertainty” in the mail system and give negotiations a chance to succeed. “Our members, their families and all Canadians do not deserve to have this threat of a lockout ‘looming’ over …

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Canada Post agrees to 30-day extension followed by binding arbitration

OTTAWA – Canada Post has informed the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) that what our employees and our customers need is long-term certainty in the postal system. Therefore, we are fully prepared to negotiate intensively for the next 30 days under an extended “cooling off period” to reach negotiated …

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Environics Analytics acquires Nielsen location and site solutions

TORONTO – Environics Analytics (EA) today announced it has entered into an agreement with Nielsen that provides for the transfer of assets relating to Nielsen’s U.S.-based location and site products and services to EA laid down substantially from the previous to be lesscourse,€™hydrolysis on the part of the€™amylase ’theglucose (favored …

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Canada Post prepared to submit to binding arbitration to resolve impasse at negotiations with CUPW

OTTAWA – On Wednesday, July 6, 2016, the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, MaryAnn Mihychuk, asked both Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW-Urban and CUPW-RSMC) to submit to binding arbitration to resolve the current impasse at negotiations. Canada Post agreed to voluntarily submit to …

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Canada Post shutting the door on tens of thousands of Canadian workers

OTTAWA – Canada Post has just served notice on fifty thousand Canadian workers that it plans to drive them out onto the streets without pay in an effort to impose steep concessions on them. “We knew this was their game all along. They are sabotaging the public review of the …

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Canada Post takes steps to respond to rapidly deteriorating business situation

OTTAWA – Canada Post has notified the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) that it will be changing the terms and conditions of employment for all employees represented by the union starting Friday, July 8, 2016. The uncertainty caused by the prolonged negotiations and the union’s strike mandate is having …

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