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MONTREAL — Air Canada says the Canada Industrial Relations Board has declared the strike by the company’s 10,000 flight attendants illegal and has ordered the union's leadership to direct its members to return to work.

Air Canada cancelled hundreds of additional flights on Sunday after the union representing its flight attendants announced the workers would remain on strike in defiance of a back-to-work order.

The federal government ordered Air Canada and its flight attendants into binding arbitration on Saturday, putting an abrupt end to a strike and lockout that began less than 12 hours earlier with grounded planes and thousands of Canadians struggling t

OTTAWA — Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu is urging Air Canada and the union representing its flight attendants to get back to the negotiating table, suggesting she's not ready to intervene in a dispute that has upended hundreds of flights.

TORONTO — The potential shutdown of Canada's largest airline because of a labour dispute has business groups warning of the damage it will do to an already fragile economy.

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has set his sights on Canada's electric vehicle mandate, pledging Thursday that his party will embark on a national campaign to push the Liberal government to scrap the policy he's dubbed the "Carney tax.

A demonstration by more than a dozen members of the union representing Air Canada's flight attendants prompted the airline to shut down a press conference on Thursday as tensions between the two sides continue to mount ahead of a weekend work stoppag

Travellers say they are bracing for uncertainty as Air Canada prepares to gradually suspend flights ahead of a potential work stoppage on Saturday.

There's no word yet whether Air Canada and the union representing some 10,000 of its flight attendants have averted a possible strike or lockout that could begin as soon as Saturday.

Air Canada says it has reached an "impasse" in negotiations with the union representing its flight attendants, which on Tuesday said it declined a proposal from the airline to enter a binding arbitration process.