230 Hours Ago · Canada, Canada

Transat pilots issue 72-hour strike notice, causing some flight suspensions by Monday

The union representing 750 Air Transat pilots says they plan to go on strike Wednesday morning unless progress is made at the bargaining table. The Air Line Pilots Association says it has filed a 72-hour strike notice after failing to find common ground following nearly a year of negotiations with travel company Transat A.T. Inc., which owns the leisure airline. Transat says it is working around the clock to reach a deal, but that flights will be “gradually suspended” starting Monday.

233 Hours Ago · Edmonton, Canada

AI-powered police body cameras, once taboo, get tested on Canadian city’s ‘watch list’ of faces

Police body cameras equipped with artificial intelligence have been trained to detect the faces of about 7,000 people on a “high risk” watch list in the Canadian city of Edmonton, a live test of whether facial recognition technology shunned as too intrusive could have a place in policing throughout North America. But six years after leading body camera maker Axon Enterprise, Inc. said police use of facial recognition technology posed serious ethical concerns, the pilot project — switched on last week— is raising alarms far beyond Edmonton, the continent’s northernmost city of more than 1 million people.