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A strike by WestJet mechanics has been averted after federal Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan directed the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) to impose final binding arbitration to resolve the outstanding issues of the collective agreement between the airline and the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA).

A potential strike by WestJet airplane mechanics had threatened to upend travel plans for 250,000 customers over the Canada Day long weekend, according to the airline.

"With the government's actions, the summer travel plans of Canadians have been protected and we have a path to resolution," said the airline's president Diederik Pen.

Slade was on a three-week rotation and had flights booked to go back home to Newfoundland from Victoria on Wednesday with a connection through Calgary — where he ended up stranded because of the impacts of the potential strike.

Plane mechanics first served the carrier with a 72-hour strike notice on June 17, prompting WestJet to cancel nearly 50 flights last week before both sides agreed to resume negotiations.

Union members voted overwhelmingly to reject a tentative deal earlier this month and have opposed WestJet's request for intervention by the country's labour tribunal.

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When I talked to Dr Robert P Jones, the president and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), a non-profit, non-partisan organization, he was dismayed that churches still teach against Indigenous tradition.

Apache members, teachers and pastors have been faithful leaders as our Wels churches strive to present God’s truth among communities with their own valued religious practices.

Referring to how white missionaries target communities of color and paint their converts as impoverished victims in need of Christianity, Jones, the Public Religion Research Institute founder, said: “I’ll put it as bluntly as I can.

He continued: “If you happen to be a Christian and of European extraction in some way, it’s a pretty powerful drug to think that your race and your religion were chosen by God and represent the pinnacle of human achievement.

The morning of Good Friday, Father John Cormack, presiding priest of St Francis of Assisi Catholic church in Fort Apache, agreed to an interview in his office.

Following a visit to the church, she got in her car to make her way back to Mesa Community College, but made one sacred stop at Oak Flat, a swath of land in the Tonto national forest of utmost sanctity.

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"A huge congratulations to the pekapeka long-tailed bat for winning Bird of the Year 2021!"

said Forest & Bird, the conservation organisation who ran the competition, in a post online.

"Despite being our only endemic (native) land mammal, most people don't even know they exist, which makes their win even more outstanding."

The Bird of the Year competition is a yearly vote held to raise awareness of New Zealand's wildlife and threatened species.The competition name in Māori - one of the official languages spoken by the people of New Zealand - is: Te Manu Rongonui o te Tau, and the word 'Manu' means 'flying creatures', including bats.

"These bats were added to Forest & Bird's competition to help people get to know them, and their story has flown around the world!"

"These flying furballs are threatened by the same problems as our native birds - predators, habitat loss and climate change.

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North Korea is carrying out a widespread crackdown on everything from wedding dresses to slang as it seeks to counter the South's influence, a new report has revealed.The report - released by South Korea's Unification Ministry - is based on the testimony of hundreds of defectors.It includes the case of a 22-year-old who was executed after admitting listening to South Korean music and distributing films, first reported by the BBC last year.North Korea described last year's report as "slander and fabrication", but has yet to respond to the new document.According to the collected accounts, searches of homes have increased since 2021, with officials looking for signs of outside culture, news agency Yonhap reports.Signs are said to include wearing a white wedding dress or the groom lifting the bride on his back.People's phones are also being searched and checked for slang from South Korea in messages and contacts, it adds.Sunglasses have also been deemed counter-revolutionary, the report says, despite North Korean leader Kim Jong Un being know to don a pair.

His father, however, also labelled certain everyday clothes items as counter-revolutionary - including jeans.

What exactly the punishment is for these infractions is unclear.However, the crackdown on South Korean-made culture appears more severe.A 2020 law made watching or distributing South Korean entertainment punishable by death.This year's report includes an account of a public execution which had earlier been revealed by the BBC, where a 22-year-old farmer was killed for listening to 70 songs, watching three films and distributing them.It is thought to be the only account of an execution being carried out under the "reactionary ideology and culture rejection law" to emerge so far.A video from earlier this year showed two teenagers being sentenced to hard labour for a similar crime.The South Korean report has been released at a time of increasing tensions between the neighbouring countries.The North has sent more than 2,000 balloons filled with rubbish across the border since last month - some of which were found to have parasites inside.A meeting between Kim Jong Un and Russia's Vladimir Putin last week has further strained relations.It is notable, then, that this is only the second time the report has been released, despite having been compiled annually since 2018.They were previously not released in order to avoid provoking North Korea.

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A Chinese woman who tried to shield a Japanese mother and her child from a knife attack has died.Hu Youping was working as a school bus attendant in Suzhou city when a man attacked a Japanese woman and her child at a bus stop outside a Japanese school.She suffered serious injuries while trying to restrain him.Tributes for her have poured out online and the local government has said she will be given the title of "Righteous and Courageous Role Model".

The Japanese embassy in China also lowered its flag to half-mast to honour Ms Hu.

It followed another stabbing earlier this month, which injured four US university instructors at a park in Jilin, in China's north-east.

Chinese state newspaper Global Times ran an editorial on Friday paying tribute to Ms Hu, where it also claimed that "China is undoubtedly still one of the safest countries in the world".Separately, the newspaper reported that Weibo had removed 759 posts that "incited nationalist sentiment" following the attack.

These posts contained "extreme opinions" that "promoted group hatred and even applauded criminal behaviour in the name of patriotism".The stabbing in Suzhou sparked concern among the local Japanese community and led the embassy to issue a safety alert warning its citizens living in China to take precautions while they are out.China's foreign ministry said the incident was "regrettable" and that it will "continue to take effective measures to earnestly protect the safety of all foreigners in China".China has seen a spate of knife attacks in the past year.

In May, two people were killed and 10 others injured in such an attack at a primary school in the southern Jiangxi province.

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Michelangelo Buonarroti left behind a trail of artistic marvels, including his statue of David and the sublime frescoes that adorn the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Now a “secret” room in Florence whose walls are sketched with doodles that the Italian Renaissance master is believed to have created while evading a death sentence ordered by Pope Clement VII amid his falling out with the powerful Medici family is to officially open to the public for the first time.

Paola D’Agostino, the director of the Bargello Museums, said it was as if the artist had wanted to produce a catalogue of his works, not knowing whether he would emerge from the chamber dead or alive.

“He drew things from the past as if he was taking a trip down memory lane … it was like having an album of his works,” D’Agostino said as she accompanied journalists on a visit to the room on Tuesday.

It is widely believed that Michelangelo sought refuge in the room to hide from the Medicis, his former patrons, when the rulers returned to Florence after being banished into exile in 1527 by a popular revolt that the artist had joined.

Giovan Battista Figiovanni, who was the prior of the Basilica of San Lorenzo where Michelangelo had been carrying out works, is thought to have located the hiding place.

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Giuliani declared bankruptcy in December 2023 after a jury awarded $148 million to two Georgia election workers who had won a defamation lawsuit against him.

As an attorney for Trump in 2020, Giuliani falsely alleged mother-daughter duo committed election fraud while counting ballots in Fulton County.

When he declared bankruptcy in December 2023, Giuliani revealed that he was considering legal action against Trump for lack of payment.

Giuliani allegedly had an oral agreement with Trump to be paid $20,000 a day for legal advice during the presidential election.

Part of Trump's interest in Giuliani was the status of having the former New York mayor as his legal adviser.

The total figure for Giuliani's legal fees amounts to about $2 million, the New York Times reported in 2021.

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A man accused of plotting to rape and murder the TV presenter Holly Willoughby has told a court he spent 99.9% of his time online as he struggled with mental health problems triggered by his life-threatening weight gain.

Gavin Plumb, 37, who denies plotting to kidnap, rape and murder Willoughby, told the judge, Mr Justice Murray, he would be unable to stand as he started to give evidence in his defence at Chelmsford crown court on Friday.

Plumb described Willoughby as his “celebrity crush” whom he would frequently think about “four, five, six times” a day and said some of the “dark” conversations he had about her online were “massively regrettable”.

Under cross-examination by the prosecutor, Alison Morgan KC, Plumb repeatedly told the jury the discussions he had online about raping and kidnapping Willoughby were “fantasy” and “bravado”.

Turning to his previous convictions, he said he had a “stewardess fantasy” at the time he attempted to kidnap two female cabin crew members from separate trains in August 2006.

He told the jury that similarly in 2008, when he attempted to tie up two 16-year-old female colleagues in a stockroom in Woolworths at knife-point, he had wanted to “try something really big again to get away from the relationship”.

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Odencat developer of Bear's Restaurant, Fishing Paradiso and Meg's Monster recently revealed their next little adventure game with Mousebusters.

The day after moving into your new living space, you wake up to find that you’ve been inexplicably transformed into a mouse.

Luckily, you soon meet a hard-boiled rodent with a crass but loveable manner of speaking who asks you to call him “Chief.” He claims he can help you turn back into a human…if you’re willing to undertake a few missions for him in return.

Together, you’ll form the titular team, and embark on expeditions to bust the ghosts that haunt each unit and break the curse on the apartment building.

It will have full Native Linux support and Steam Deck support.

You can follow it on Steam.

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Much of the attention on Thursday’s presidential debate fell upon President Joe Biden’s faltering performance, which has called into question whether he can even remain the Democratic candidate.

The moment embodied a through line of the debate: CNN moderators Bash or Jake Tapper would ask a question; Trump would respond with something off-topic, dishonest, and dangerous; and the moderators, instead of pushing back or even acknowledging the absurdity of Trump’s answers, would simply move on, thanking the twice-impeached former president for his time.

In response to the same question, Biden said he’s still pushing hard for Hamas to accept a ceasefire deal and made clear that “the only thing I’ve denied Israel was 2,000-pound bombs,” given the risk to innocent people in populated areas.

Shortly after, Bash followed up with Trump, asking if he would “support the creation of an independent Palestinian state in order to achieve peace in the region.”

Trump referred to immigrants as hordes of millions coming from “prisons, jails, and mental institutions” into the country to destroy it.

The debate has triggered a broader reflection on whether a candidate other than Biden would be best suited to put down such cruelty, though some higher-echelon Democrats have thus far refused to entertain that possibility.

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“This decision was driven by exceptional circumstances” said Phil Evans, director general of the organization Eumetsat.

The decision, taken at a council meeting of Eumetsat's 30 member nations on Wednesday and Thursday, comes less than two weeks before the debut of the Ariane 6 rocket, scheduled for July 9.

As a result some of Europe's most valuable missions, including the Euclid space telescope and several Galileo satellites, have already launched on the Falcon 9.

The organization added, "This first European sounding satellite in a geostationary orbit will bring a revolution for weather forecasting and climate monitoring in Europe and Africa, and make it possible, for the first time, to observe the full lifecycle of a convective storm from space."

The MTG-S1 satellite was due to launch on the third flight of the Ariane 6 rocket, a mission nominally scheduled for early 2025.

Whatever their reasons, the European satellite officials have thrown a massive turd into the punchbowl at festivities for the debut of the Ariane 6 rocket.

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BNEI BRAK, Israel (AP) — Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men blocked a major highway in central Israel for two hours on Thursday to protest a recent Supreme Court decision ordering young religious men to enlist for military service.

But politically powerful ultra-Orthodox parties have won draft exemptions for their followers that allow them instead to study in religious seminaries.

This long-standing arrangement has bred widespread resentment among the broader public — a sentiment that has grown stronger during the eight-month war against Hamas in Gaza.

Over 600 soldiers have been killed, and tens of thousands of reservists have been activated, straining careers, businesses and family lives.

Many fear that greater contact with secular society through the military will distance adherents from strict observance of the faith.

The Supreme Court this week ordered the government to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men, saying the system of exemptions is unequal.

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