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The Federal Court has ordered Air Canada to pay $21,000 to an Ottawa couple for repeated violations of their French-language language rights, including seatbelts on which the instruction to “lift” the buckle was marked only in English.

Michel and Lynda Thibodeau filed 22 complaints in 2016 with the commissioner of official languages for alleged offences under the Official Languages Act.

The pair complained that planes’ emergency exit door signs were either in English only, or the English words were in larger font than the French ones. They noted seatbelts were engraved with the word “lift” with no French-language equivalent.
继续阅读Air Canada ordered to pay French-speaking couple $21K over language violations

If you’re a transit enthusiast, now is your chance to take one last ride on one of Toronto’s oldest streetcars.

On Monday, the TTC is officially retiring the last two of its articulated light rail vehicle (ALRV) streetcars — which are about three decades old — despite the agency’s efforts to extend their life for up to an additional 10 years.

According to the transit agency, both vehicles will run on Queen St. from 2 p.m. until roughly 5 p.m. on Labour Day. One will depart from the Russell Carhouse near Queen St. E. and Greenwood Ave. and head east until Bathurst St.
继续阅读Monday is your last chance to ride the TTC’s old, articulated streetcars

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says she is “annoyed” at Donald Trump’s decision to cancel his visit after being told Greenland was not for sale.

“Our preparations were well under way,” she said, adding she had been looking forward to meeting the US president.

Ms Frederiksen reiterated that the island of Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, could not be bought.

Mr Trump was scheduled to visit on 2 September at the invitation of Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II.

But last week, he suggested that his administration was interested in buying Greenland – an idea that Ms Frederiksen at the time described as “absurd”.
继续阅读Trump’s Denmark snub over Greenland sale ‘annoys’ PM

Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou claim she was the target of a “covert criminal investigation” designed by Canadian and U.S. authorities to illegally detain and search the Huawei executive when she landed in Vancouver in December 2018.

The allegation is fleshed out in hundreds of pages of documents filed in B.C. Supreme Court Tuesday in a bid for copies of correspondence between agencies during the crucial hours surrounding Meng’s arrest after she arrived at Vancouver International Airport from Hong Kong on Dec.1.

The material includes video of the Huawei chief financial officer in the moments after she stepped off a Cathay Pacific flight and into a global dispute that continues to rock relations between Canada and China.

Meng’s lawyers claim notes included in the documents suggest RCMP originally planned to arrest Meng on the plane, but decided to have the Canada Border Services Agency detain her instead in order to collect evidence at the direction of the Canadian Department of Justice and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
继续阅读Meng Wanzhou claims ‘covert criminal investigation’ by Canadian, U.S. authorities

The FBI has accused a Malaysian man of placing a camera in the first-class bathroom of a United Airlines flight earlier this year from San Diego to Houston.

A female first class passenger went to the bathroom mid-flight on May 5 and saw “an item with a blue blinking light,” according to court documents filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The woman, unnamed in the document, wasn’t sure if what she found was part of the aircraft but brought it to the flight crew.

Houston United Airlines Corporate Security determined the item in question was a video recording device. “After viewing the information on the device, a male was caught on video installing the device in the first class lavatory of this particular flight,” per the document. While the man’s face couldn’t be identified in the video, his clothing and jewelry were visible. Footage of passengers boarding the aircraft in San Diego, and the man leaving the aircraft in Houston, helped the FBI track him down: Choon Ping Lee, a Malaysian citizen who works for Halliburton, an oil field service company. He was formally charged on August 5.
继续阅读United Airlines passenger accused of placing camera in first-class bathroom