In the news today: Postal workers on strike, Carney in U.K., Chinese EV tariff review

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…

Unionized postal workers on strike nationwide

Unionized postal workers are on a nationwide strike this morning, after Canada Post announced it was planning to end door-to-door mail delivery for almost all households within the next decade.

Procurement Minister Joel Lightbound said the move is among sweeping changes aimed at shoring up the Crown corporation’s finances in response to a decline in letter mail and its small share of the parcel market.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers, representing 55,000 members of the postal service, said it was caught off guard by the changes and argued that Canada Post and the government are creating the conditions that drive down demand for those two services.

Details of what the nationwide strike will entail have not been released, but one union negotiator told CBC News Network’s Power & Politics that different units are “organically” organizing picket lines.

Carney looks to build trade, security ties in U.K.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is in London today to meet with the leaders of the United Kingdom, Australia, Denmark, Spain and Iceland. 

The talks are expected to revolve around trade and mutual defence priorities including response to the war in Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war and Arctic security. 

This latest international trip comes on the heels of Carney visiting Mexico City and the United Nations General Assembly in New York, and hosting the heads of Indonesia and Ireland in Ottawa prior to his departure. 

Senior government officials speaking on background characterize the trip as a way to get face time with leaders to further trade, business and security partnerships as Canada looks to lessen its reliance on the United States.  

Former Israeli PM says Israelis want Gaza war over

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert says Canadians should oppose Israel’s government — not Israelis themselves — and blasts his successor for treating Prime Minister Mark Carney as “an enemy of Israel.”

“I only advise the people of Canada to oppose the Israeli government. That’s perfectly legitimate,” Olmert told The Canadian Press.

“Don’t oppose the State of Israel and the people of Israel. They are friends of Canada.”

He said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been inaccurately portraying Prime Minister Mark Carney as hostile to his country. Six months have passed without the two leaders speaking directly.

Chinese EV tariff review only ‘informal,’ feds say

The federal government says it is reviewing its decision to impose 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese EVs — but it can’t or won’t say when the review began, or when it will end.

The tariffs took effect on Oct. 1, 2024, and the regulatory order published imposing them said “the government intends to review this measure within a period of one year from its entry into force.”

Finance officials now say the review is “informal,” with no specific deadline.

The news comes as Canada tries to recalibrate its trade relationship with China, which imposed heavy tariffs on Canada’s canola sector last month. The move was widely seen as an act of retaliation for Canada’s EV tariffs.

Quebec labour tribunal to hear case against Amazon

A Quebec labour tribunal will begin hearing witnesses in a case against Amazon stemming from the e-commerce giant’s decision to close its seven warehouses in the province.

The Confédération des syndicats nationaux has filed a complaint alleging the closures were an attempt by Amazon to shut down unionization efforts and avoid obligations under the province’s Labour Code.

The union says in a release that the president of Amazon Canada Fulfillment Services will be the first to testify.

Some 1,700 employees lost their jobs following Amazon’s sudden termination of its Quebec warehouse operations in January, only months after workers at a Montreal-area facility unionized.

Whale untangled from rope, gear off B.C. coast

Fader, the humpback, has been coming back to British Columbia’s waters for the last two decades, but this time the whale was spotted with something extra — more than 130 metres of rope and fishing gear.

The whale entangled was first sighted Sunday in the Strait of Georgia by two vessels operated by Vancouver Island Whale Watch.

Cheyenne Brewster, a spokeswoman for the Nanaimo-based company, said the boats encountered a pair of humpbacks during a regular boat tour.

As people on the vessels started taking photos, they noticed that one of the whales had an orange float trailing behind it, she said.

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This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 26, 2025