Most-read stories of the week: Strikes, murder trial, missing bird returns
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One of the largest strike actions in Canadian history, an ongoing murder trial in Kitchener, and a big lottery win for a Kitchener receptionist round out the most-read stories of the week.
Members of Canada’s largest federal public service union hit the picket lines Wednesday morning.
Some 155,000 Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) members are off the job, including 35,000 Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) employees – meaning we could see delays when it comes to travel and taxes.
The union is calling the strike action one of the largest in Canadian history.
In Kitchener, hundreds picketed in front of the CRA office downtown.
“We’re really happy with the turnout,” strike captain Sam Brunton-Lewis said. “Everybody’s in good spirits out here and [we’re] looking to get a fair contract by showing up here and showing our solidarity.”
Dozens of text messages were presented to a Kitchener courtroom Friday as a computer forensic analyst from Waterloo regional police was called as a witness at the trial of Ager Hasan.
From pleas to get back together to assurances he'd never hurt her and requests for visits, the jury saw and heard multiple texts sent from Hasan’s phone to former partner Melinda Vasilije.
