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Dog owner cleared of responsibility for first bite, but Canada Post worker got damages for pain, suffering for second bite two weeks later.

Article content A Canada Post letter carrier sued the owner of a Delta Doberman named Rexx for $5,000 after being bitten twice by the dog while delivering mail. It was the second bite that cost Rexx — or, more specifically, his owner Guriqbal Bains — though, with a $2,000 levy awarded to carrier Carl Aiple as a result of the March 2020 incidents. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or B.C. Doberman owner out $2Gs after postal carrier sues for...

“I’ll see you in heaven.” It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life. Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday. Al’s daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she cont...

The agreement also can talk about things like who your vet is, what food to give your pet, the pet's daily schedule and needs, what kind of medical care

Toronto is overrun with pink robots. Well, maybe not overrun – there are only about seven or eight wheeling around on any given day. But spotting one of them is like seeing a celebrity at TIFF. Those almost self-consciously cute pink robots are all over Instagram and TikTok.  The robots are named Geoffrey, and they belong to a local startup called Tiny Mile. They’re there to get your food, picking up and delivering orders on Uber Eats.  They’re not programmed to destroy us – or take o...

Debby Szeredy, Executive Vice President of the American Postal Workers Union; and Jonathan Smith, president of the New York Metro Postal Workers Union about their experiences defending rural post offices and city processing plants, in a panel sponsored by DSA4USPS, a subcommittee of the Democratic Socialist Labor Commission. — Editor This plan was pushed out in a hurry as a pre-emptive strike before the Senate could vote to fill the open seats on the Postal Board of Governors with Biden’s ...

iPolitics By Kady OMalley. Published on May 6, 2021 6:30am Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault speaks in the House of Commons on April 21. (Photo via Twitter) All eyes will be on Liberal side of the committee table as CANADIAN HERITAGE members resume clause-by-clause review of the government’s proposed overhaul of Canada’s broadcasting regime, which has been dominating the political back-and-forth Ottawa for the last week after Liberal, New Democrat and Bloc Québécois members ...

As a postal worker, my job is essential. I worry about spreading COVID-19 every day I deliver mail and packages on the street where I reside. I shop at the businesses I serve; my clients are my neighbours. Never has the link between individual health and community health been laid so bare. Social Sharing Thomas Dunford · for CBC First Person · Posted: May 04, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 4 I deliver mail and packages on the street where I reside. I shop at the businesses I serve; my...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Postal Workers fight DeJoy plan to close processing centers and eliminate jobs May 3, 2021 10:59 AM CDT By Mark Gruenberg Postal workers sort mail at the U.S. Postal Service processing and distribution center in Oakland, Calif., on April 30, 2020. Trump-imposed Postmaster Genera...

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Canada Post says about 80 of its employees from a Mississauga, Ont., facility have been ordered to stay home due to a COVID-19 outbreak. Peel Public Health directed the afternoon shift at the Toronto Exchange Office on Tuesday to self-isolate for 10 days after 12 employees at the facility tested positive for the novel coronavirus in the past seven days. “We will continue to reinforce our safety protocols with all employees, follow our enhanced cleaning and sanitization...