Hassan Yussuff

Unifor and the Canadian Labour Congress both say they're optimistic that peacemaking efforts from Ontario's largest public sector union can help them end their war over the rights of workers to choose which union should represent them.

To say that Hassan Yussuff was frustrated Wednesday would be putting it politely. “There are other adjectives I will not use," the president of the Canadian Labour Congress told National Observer after hearing the government still has no "just transition" policies lined up for fossil fuel workers who will lose their jobs.

Hassan Yussuff was acclaimed and will pursue a second mandate as president of the Canadian Labour Congress.

“What’s really hard in cases like these is that the person who you love has passed away, and you can’t find out what happened,” said Christian Bruneau, whose son was killed on the job.

The most dramatic warming of the planet is happening in its coldest regions.

Such a ban would have limited effect in federally regulated workplaces — marine ports, airports, airlines and telecommunications companies, says a briefing note to the deputy minister.

A tearful Michelle Côté, whose boiler maker father was diagnosed with deadly, asbestos-caused mesothelioma in 2014, told an Ottawa news conference that no one deserves to die this way.

Dramatic accusations of “betrayal” spilled onto the floor of a political convention Saturday as Alberta New Democrats defended their environmental record and criticized an anti-oil sentiment.