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A passenger boards a WestJet Encore Bombardier Q400 twin-engined turboprop aircraft in Kamloops, Saturday, June 3, 2023. WestJet and Swoop pilots ratified their collective agreement after a bargaining process that saw the threat of a strike snarl many Canadians’ long weekend plans. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

WestJet to wind down budget airline Swoop, fold it into main operation

Each trip by the carrier’s 180-plane fleet will offer a portion of ultra-low-cost fares

The Bank of Canada building is pictured in Ottawa on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. The Bank’s deputy governor Paul Beaudry delivered an economic progress report in Victoria, offering insight into the central bank’s decision to raise its key interest rate to 4.75 per cent. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Future interest rate decisions will be taken one at a time, says BoC deputy governor

‘Every decision is taken one at a time at this point’

Cameron Shute, from Nelson, B.C., whose small business Dark Horse Innovations is part of a growing number of outdoor gear makers, designers and manufacturers in the Kootenays region of the province, is shown in a handout photo. (Peter Moynes photo/Contributed to The Canadian Press)

‘Craft gear from here:’ Kootenays eyed by wilderness lovers and entrepreneurs alike

‘In the beginning, it was people who were already here, but now we’re finding people are moving here just to make gear’

Natasha Acuba-Bailey (centre), her husband Mark (left), and mother Telly (right), selling adobo flakes at Robson Square (Contributed Natasha Acuba-Bailey).

Side hustle turns into full-time passion for B.C. entrepreneur

Natasha Acuba-Bailey created Manila Kitchen as a secondary source of income

Natasha Acuba-Bailey (centre), her husband Mark (left), and mother Telly (right), selling adobo flakes at Robson Square (Contributed Natasha Acuba-Bailey).
File - People stand outside of the Steve Jobs Theater before an event on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, in Cupertino, Calif. If Apple unveils a widely anticipated headset equipped with mixed reality technology at the theater on Monday, it will be the company's biggest new product since the introduction of the Apple Watch nearly a decade ago.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Apple is expected to unveil a sleek, pricey headset. Is it the device VR has been looking for?

Apple appears poised to unveil a long-rumored headset that will place its…

File - People stand outside of the Steve Jobs Theater before an event on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, in Cupertino, Calif. If Apple unveils a widely anticipated headset equipped with mixed reality technology at the theater on Monday, it will be the company's biggest new product since the introduction of the Apple Watch nearly a decade ago.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
FILE - Ernie Field pushes the doorbell on his Ring doorbell camera, July 16, 2019, at his home in Wolcott, Conn. In a vote Wednesday, May 31, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission is ordering Amazon to pay more than $30 million in fines over privacy violations involving its voice assistant Alexa and its doorbell camera Ring. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Amazon to pay $31 million in privacy violation penalties for Alexa voice assistant and Ring camera

Amazon agreed Wednesday to pay a $25 million civil penalty to settle…

FILE - Ernie Field pushes the doorbell on his Ring doorbell camera, July 16, 2019, at his home in Wolcott, Conn. In a vote Wednesday, May 31, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission is ordering Amazon to pay more than $30 million in fines over privacy violations involving its voice assistant Alexa and its doorbell camera Ring. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
FILE - Apple CEO Tim Cook smiles at an Apple event in Cupertino, Calif., on Sept. 7, 2022. After ballooning for years, CEO pay growth is finally slowing. Cook, who was number three in the AP CEO pay survey, requested a 40% pay cut in 2023 after shareholders questioned the size and structure of his $99.4 million compensation package in 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

CEOs got smaller raises, but would still take employees 2 lifetimes to match annual pay

Typical compensation package for chief executives who run S&P 500 companies rose just 0.9% last yea

FILE - Apple CEO Tim Cook smiles at an Apple event in Cupertino, Calif., on Sept. 7, 2022. After ballooning for years, CEO pay growth is finally slowing. Cook, who was number three in the AP CEO pay survey, requested a 40% pay cut in 2023 after shareholders questioned the size and structure of his $99.4 million compensation package in 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
A woman walks past a Freedom Mobile in Toronto on Thursday, November 24, 2016. On the heels of the sale of Freedom Mobile, and amid an increased interest in unionization among retail and service workers, Teamsters Canada says retail and call centre employees at Freedom Mobile are looking to unionize.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Freedom Mobile workers seeking union after acquisition: Teamsters Canada

Call centre workers have been unionizing for years, said economist and labour expert Jim Stanford

A woman walks past a Freedom Mobile in Toronto on Thursday, November 24, 2016. On the heels of the sale of Freedom Mobile, and amid an increased interest in unionization among retail and service workers, Teamsters Canada says retail and call centre employees at Freedom Mobile are looking to unionize.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Signage marks the Statistics Canada offices in Ottawa on July 21, 2010. Statistics Canada is set to release its gross domestic product figures for the month of March, as well as the first quarter of the year.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Canada’s economy continues to outperform, raising odds of rate hike next week

The Canadian economy grew faster than expected in the first three months…

Signage marks the Statistics Canada offices in Ottawa on July 21, 2010. Statistics Canada is set to release its gross domestic product figures for the month of March, as well as the first quarter of the year.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
A UBC research reveals that customers prefer self-checkout or interacting with robotic individuals when purchasing blush-inducing items. (Courtesy/Contributed to Black Press Media)

Self-checkout preferred for blush-inducing purchases, B.C. study affirms

UBC Sauder research sheds light on consumer choices in embarrassing purchase situations

A UBC research reveals that customers prefer self-checkout or interacting with robotic individuals when purchasing blush-inducing items. (Courtesy/Contributed to Black Press Media)
Guillermo Hernandez, right, a soil scientist, and Camila Quiroz, a research intern from Peru, look over their plants in a research room used to simulate sunlight at the University of Alberta in Edmonton in this undated handout photo. (Guillermo Hernandez Ramirez/University of Alberta)

‘More connected’: Researchers looking at growing food under solar panels

This could help Alberta winters, researchers have mentioned

Guillermo Hernandez, right, a soil scientist, and Camila Quiroz, a research intern from Peru, look over their plants in a research room used to simulate sunlight at the University of Alberta in Edmonton in this undated handout photo. (Guillermo Hernandez Ramirez/University of Alberta)
FILE - Attendees visit the Meta booth at the Game Developers Conference 2023 in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. European Union hits Facebook parent Meta with record $1.3 billion fine over transfers of user data to US. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Meta fined record $1.3 billion and ordered to stop sending European user data to US

The European Union slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion privacy fine…

FILE - Attendees visit the Meta booth at the Game Developers Conference 2023 in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. European Union hits Facebook parent Meta with record $1.3 billion fine over transfers of user data to US. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
This photo, in New York, Thursday, May 18, 2023, shows the ChatGPT app on an iPhone. The free app started to become available on iPhones in the U.S. on Thursday and will later be coming to Android phones. Unlike the web version, you can also ask it questions using your voice. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

ChatGPT makes its debut as a smartphone app on iPhones

ChatGPT is now a smartphone app, which could be good news for…

This photo, in New York, Thursday, May 18, 2023, shows the ChatGPT app on an iPhone. The free app started to become available on iPhones in the U.S. on Thursday and will later be coming to Android phones. Unlike the web version, you can also ask it questions using your voice. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Tech, sustainability key to attracting young talent to an evolving agriculture sector

Twelve per cent of farms told Statistics Canada they had a succession plan in 2021

(The Canadian Press)
A line at the WestJet counter at the airport in Calgary, Alta., Thursday, May 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

WestJet continues ramping back up after cancelled flights upend long weekend plans

Airline warns full resumption will take time, travellers should check before heading to airport

A line at the WestJet counter at the airport in Calgary, Alta., Thursday, May 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
WestJet has started to cancel flights as talks with the pilots’ union remained at a “critical impasse,” the company said in Calgary, Alta., Thursday, May 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

WestJet, pilots reach 11th-hour deal as strike averted

Some 1,800 pilots at WestJet and Swoop had been poised to walk off the job

WestJet has started to cancel flights as talks with the pilots’ union remained at a “critical impasse,” the company said in Calgary, Alta., Thursday, May 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
WestJet Airlines pilots stand on a picket line at Toronto’s Pearson Airport on Monday May 8, 2023. WestJet CEO Alexis von Hoensbroech says a massive gap remains between the airline’s offer to pilots and the union’s counterproposal for a new contract as job action looms. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

WestJet CEO, pilots’ union head clash over compensation as strike looms

More than 1,800 pilots at WestJet and its Swoop subsidiary could walk off the job Friday

WestJet Airlines pilots stand on a picket line at Toronto’s Pearson Airport on Monday May 8, 2023. WestJet CEO Alexis von Hoensbroech says a massive gap remains between the airline’s offer to pilots and the union’s counterproposal for a new contract as job action looms. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
The Uber app is seen on an iPhone near a driver’s vehicle after the company launched service, in Vancouver, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Canadian teens will soon be able to hitch a ride through Uber. The tech giant says it will begin allowing people between the ages of 13 and 17 to make Uber accounts on the ride-hailing platform over the summer.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Uber to allow Canadian teens to set up ride-share accounts this summer

Uber Canada says shift responds to needs of single-car families with multiple kids, multiple demands

The Uber app is seen on an iPhone near a driver’s vehicle after the company launched service, in Vancouver, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Canadian teens will soon be able to hitch a ride through Uber. The tech giant says it will begin allowing people between the ages of 13 and 17 to make Uber accounts on the ride-hailing platform over the summer.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Air Canada has announced a partnership with Flydubai that will offer more options for travellers headed to destinations in the Middle East, East Africa, Indian Subcontinent and Southern Asia. Air Canada planes sit on the tarmac at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette Air Canada has announced a partnership with Flydubai that will offer more options for travellers headed to destinations in the Middle East, East Africa, Indian Subcontinent and Southern Asia. Air Canada planes sit on the tarmac at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Air Canada signs codeshare and interline partnership deal with Flydubai

Agreement should lead to more connections in Middle East, East Africa and Southern Asia

Air Canada has announced a partnership with Flydubai that will offer more options for travellers headed to destinations in the Middle East, East Africa, Indian Subcontinent and Southern Asia. Air Canada planes sit on the tarmac at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette Air Canada has announced a partnership with Flydubai that will offer more options for travellers headed to destinations in the Middle East, East Africa, Indian Subcontinent and Southern Asia. Air Canada planes sit on the tarmac at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
WestJet Airlines pilots stand on a picket line at Toronto’s Pearson Airport on Monday May 8, 2023. The travel plans of WestJet customers are up in the air after its pilots’ union issued a 72-hour strike notice last night. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

WestJet customers holding their breath as strike notice jeopardizes travel plans

‘I don’t have that extra money to pay for another flight, so we are essentially screwed here’

WestJet Airlines pilots stand on a picket line at Toronto’s Pearson Airport on Monday May 8, 2023. The travel plans of WestJet customers are up in the air after its pilots’ union issued a 72-hour strike notice last night. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young