Brandon Sun By: Dan Healing and Christopher Reynolds, The Canadian Press Posted:
Last Modified: 3:07 PM CST Friday, Jan. 8, 2021
Advertisement
A WestJet flight from Calgary arrives at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Enfield, N.S. on Monday, July 6, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
CALGARY - The CEO of WestJet Airlines Ltd. is laying the blame squarely on incoherent policy from Ottawa as his carrier cuts staff and flights in response to new COVID-19 testing requirements for passengers returning to Canada.
The Calgary-based airline announced Friday about 1,000 employees will be furloughed, temporarily laid off, put on unpaid leave or have their hours cut, and it will chop about 30 per cent of its capacity for February and March and pull 160 domestic departures from its schedule.
WestJet puts 1,000 workers on leave, citing government s Incoherent policy - Medicine Hat NewsMedicine Hat News medicinehatnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from medicinehatnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Posted: Jan 08, 2021 2:43 PM AT | Last Updated: January 8
Graham Gagnon is the director of the Dalhousie University Centre for Water Resource Studies.(CBC)
Researchers at Dalhousie University are teaming up with three other Nova Scotia universities to expand a program that tests for COVID-19 indicators in wastewater.
About $850,000 is being invested into the expansion. The work builds on the recent results of a pilot study in Halifax and Wolfville where the virus that causes COVID-19 was detected in wastewater.
Now testing will be done at many more locations in the province. We ll be open to the province to focus on what could be priority sites, said Dr. Graham Gagnon, the lead researcher of the project who is the director of the Dalhousie University Centre for Water Resource Studies.
Canadian Press NewsAlert: WestJet to cut jobs, capacity due to new testing regime - Medicine Hat NewsMedicine Hat News medicinehatnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from medicinehatnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Dan Healing and Christopher Reynolds
A WestJet flight from Calgary arrives at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Enfield, N.S. on Monday, July 6, 2020.
Image Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan January 08, 2021 - 9:30 AM The CEO of WestJet Airlines Ltd. is laying the blame squarely on incoherent policy from Ottawa as his carrier cuts staff and flights in response to new COVID-19 testing requirements for passengers returning to Canada. The Calgary-based airline announced Friday about 1,000 employees will be furloughed, temporarily laid off, put on unpaid leave or have their hours cut, and it will chop about 30 per cent of its capacity for February and March and pull 160 domestic departures from its schedule.