Page 30 - Don Braid News Today

Why full-time pay? Regarding the article

Is the UCP taking a risk? Certainly. If the virus somehow grips the province again the government will be pretty much embalmed, two years before the next…

Tina Morrison13:29, May 26 2021 Andy Jackson/Stuff Mainfreight is rewarding staff after it posted a record profit during a “tumultuous time”. Transport company Mainfreight is rewarding its staff with a hike in bonuses after posting a record profit in a difficult year when trading was disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Mainfreight lifted profit after tax to $188.1 million in the year to March 31, up from $159.2m last year which included a one-time gain of $11.2m. Managing director Don Bra...

File image. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Mainfreight managing director Don Braid said the cost of shipping a 40-foot container of goods had been inflated by up as much as $8000 more than a standard contract price negotiated pre-Covid-19. Mainfreight had been passing those costs onto its customers, which was in turn being passed on to their customers, and so on, he said. "My sense is its not going to change in the short term, and I think well be hit by the shipping congestion and higher rates ...

The big question now for our sad little law is — who would it be used against, and why?

Premier Jason Kenney says he admires Quebec’s attempt to declare itself a “nation” in Canada’s Constitution.

Article content Well, that was easy. A letter from Quebec Premier François Legault, a response from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and voilà — Canada’s Constitution changes. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Don Braid: With a wave of Trudeaus wand, Quebec will become a nation Back to video Quebec will become “a nation.” Not a nation within a unified Canada, mind you. An actual nation — with benefits. This nation will still send MPs to ...

Article content At this point in the pandemic, Alberta doesn’t have a plan for lifting COVID-19 restrictions. But Premier Jason Kenney says a new one is coming soon. It will be tied to levels of vaccination among Albertans. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Braid: Albertas reopening plan is defunct. Wheres the new one? Back to video That scheme was based on the number of people hospitalized. Restrictions were to be eased when the total dropped ...

Mainfreight managing director Don Braid said the company was very strict about what the rules were, and worked closely with Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency on the management of logbooks and the hours driven. “The law is the law, and we’re working hard every day to make sure we are within the boundaries of what the law requires, as well as meeting the demands of our customers - and that’s not easy by the way, but it’s something that you’ve got to make sure you’re on top of.” The...

Article content MLA Todd Loewen’s demand that Premier Jason Kenney resign was serious business. But it quickly descended into farce, as the full UCP caucus agonized toward his inevitable expulsion at 7:40 p.m. Thursday. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Don Braid: UCP caucus expels the latest dissident, but the fight may not be over Back to video The virtual caucus meeting where UCP MLAs voted on Loewen’s fate was at times chaotic, and possib...