Global Courant 2023-05-17 16:19:00
The annual rate of inflation picks up in April, newly released footage shows the use of force against a Quebec native prisoner, and WestJet customers hold their breath as a strike announcement jeopardizes travel plans.
Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
1. Inflation is rising: The annual inflation rate rose to 4.4 percent in April, for the first time since peaking in June last year.
2. Excessive Violence: Recently released surveillance footage captured from a Quebec prison shows a group of correctional officers kicking and stabbing a person in distress.
3. Far apart: WestJet CEO Alexis von Hoensbroech says a huge gap remains between the airline’s offer of pilots and the union’s counterproposal for a new contract as action looms.
4. Canada-Korea: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol sign a memorandum of understanding on critical mineral supply chains and the clean energy transition.
5. End ‘Driver Inc.’: Several groups representing Canadian truckers are calling on the CRA to help end what they call a ‘tax scam’ affecting their industry, saying it has reached the ‘crisis level ‘ has achieved.
one more thing…
A young girl kidnapped by her mother in Illinois has been found safe six years later thanks to a Netflix watcher.
From left, Kayla Unbehaun around the time of her disappearance and, right, in a photo showing advanced age. (courtesy of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children)
