Calgary - CBC News

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) says approximately 55,000 workers in its urban and rural bargaining units are on strike. Both the union and Canada Post say progress in negotiations has been slow, leaving businesses and consumers to fret as busy shopping and holiday periods loom.

A network outageaffecting credit unionsacross the Canadian Prairies on Friday has delayed automatic deposits andpayments.

Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault apologized Friday for not being as clear as he could have been about his familys Indigenous heritage and said he asked the Liberal Party to correct the record when it called him Indigenous.

A Calgary judge offered words of encouragement to a man heading to prison following a conviction for impaired driving that caused the death of a pedestrian.