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Air Canada says government should be ready to prevent pilots from striking
Air Canada said on Thursday that the federal Canadian government should be prepared to intervene to prevent a pilots' strike that could begin as early as next week.
Price increases are heading to some Crave subscribers as the Canadian streaming platform rejigs its service to introduce a new mobile-only option.
The Bell Media-operated service says it is no longer offering what's known as its "basic" tier, which gave viewers a limited library of older HBO titles, Showtime and Crave Originals for a relatively low price of $9.99 per month.
Instead, for $9.99, Crave Mobile offers access to Crave's entire library through a mobile app or the Crave website, but is limited to one viewer stream at a time on a single registered mobile device, making it tough to split a subscription with another user.
The new offering effectively replaces Crave's basic tier price point and broadens the programming selection, but doesn't support downloading episodes onto phones, nor casting to televisions and isn't accessible on TV apps, such as Roku or Apple TV.
Meanwhile, the higher tier called Crave Plus has been renamed Crave Total but otherwise offers the same broader lineup of HBO series, some HBO Max shows, Showtime and recent movies for $19.99. Downloaded shows and movies are optional and up to four streams can take place at the same time.
The change largely impacts Crave basic subscribers who were less interested in HBO and movies but wanted to catch Showtime series -- including the upcoming series "Dexter: New Blood" -- and Crave's own "Canada's Drag Race" and "Letterkenny" on their televisions.
Now, those viewers will have to pay double the price to continue watching on their TVs, or maintain the $9.99 price with access only on their phones and computers.
A representative for Bell Media says basic Crave subscribers who pay through the company's website will have access to Crave Total under a trial period until March 29, 2022.
Crave's new packages come after years of holding firm on prices while other major streaming companies, including Netflix and Disney, hiked their monthly bills by several dollars.
Bell Media noted that Starz is still considered an "add-on" service to Crave for an additional $5.99 per month.
Air Canada said on Thursday that the federal Canadian government should be prepared to intervene to prevent a pilots' strike that could begin as early as next week.
An Ontario woman admits she was flustered and stressed trying to book an airline ticket when she found out a close relative had died last month.
A Simcoe, Ont. woman is facing an assault with a weapon charge after she said that she accidentally sprayed her neighbour with a water gun over the Labour Day weekend, a situation that at least one legal expert says amounts to an ‘unfortunate waste of resources.’
When the 'Roaring Lion' portrait of Winston Churchill is returned to the Fairmont Château Laurier, a 68-year-old man once considered the prime suspect in the heist will have the honour of replacing it.
Empire Co. Ltd. says it earned $207.8 million in its latest quarter, down from $261 million a year ago as its sales edged higher.
An earthquake was felt widely in the Los Angeles area Thursday morning.
After weeks of pressure, Canada's consul general Tom Clark will testify on Thursday before a House of Commons committee about the purchase of his new official residence in New York that generated a lot of political attention over the summer.
While Air Canada has shared advice for travellers ahead of a possible pilots strike, an airline passenger rights advocate has more tips for Canadians who may be affected.
An Ottawa resident who died of a viral encephalitis this summer tested positive for the mosquito-borne virus eastern equine encephalitis (EEEV), the first human case of the virus in Ottawa.
Abandoned homes line the streets of Lauder, a town that's now a ghost of what it once was. Yet inside, a small community is thriving.
Perhaps Saskatchewan's most famous encounter with Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP/UFO) – "The Langenburg Event" is now being immortalized in the form of a collector's coin.
It's been 420 days since 22-year-old Abbey Bickell was killed in a car crash in Burnaby, a stretch full of heartbreak for her family as they not only grieved her death, but anxiously waited for progress in the police investigation. Wednesday, they finally got some good news.
A Simcoe, Ont. woman has been charged with assault with a weapon after spraying her neighbour with a water gun.
The dream of a life on water has drowned in a sea of sadness for a group of Chatham-Kent, Ont. residents who paid a Wallaceburg-based company for a floating home they never received.
In 2022, Tanya Frisk-Welburn and her husband bought what they hoped would be a dream home in Mexico.
Mansour’s Menswear in Amherst, N.S., is celebrating its 100th anniversary this month
A beautiful Labour Day weekend at the lake was interrupted by some extreme weather when a tornado touched down in northern Ontario.
Charred stumps and the remains of fire-ravaged trees still cover large tracts of land on the Jasper landscape, but life is returning quickly down below.