Ukrainian ensemble, youth archers upset while Air Canada Strike disturbs international events
Lily Azli is delighted to compete this week in the World Archery Youth Championships in Winnipeg, but she is also disappointed that core members from her team from Australia will not fire an arrows next to her in the midst of a strike of air travelers on the way to or to Canada.
About 570 athletes from 63 countries were planned to arrive in Winnipeg for the World Archery Youth Championships on the same weekend that the Air Canada strike influenced around 750 flights Canadawide.
“You know how many hours they have brought in training and how many small and large sacrifices they have made to be here,” said Azli, 18. “To know that they won’t be here at all, it breaks your heart.”
Five of the 19 teammates from AZLI do not come for the competition due to cancellations with regard to the ongoing strike of Air Canada.
Stewardessen stayed on the picket line on Winnipeg Richardson International Airport on Monday.
Cupe Manitoba President Gina Mckay is determined, the picketing will continue, despite the Canada’s Industrial Relations Board that decides on Monday that continuous challenge of a back-to-work order is illegal.
“Whatever happens, we have constitutional rights to stop and that’s what we are doing here today,” she said on Monday outside the airport of Winnipeg.
“We work and fight for honest wages and we fight for an honest contract. And that is what we do is that we hold the line.”
The Industrial Relations Board called on the trade union to stop all strike activities and promote its members to restore negotiation interviews. The disobedient of the order of the board can lead to fines and fines.
The trade union has characterized the federal liberal government as the “refusal of Air Canada to negotiate honestly” by publishing the back to -To -work order.
Michael Zakaluzny said that the strike resulted in the cancellations of flights to Columbia for he and others in the Melos Folk Ensemble, a Ukrainian folk group-based in Winnipeg consisting of choir, orchestral and dancing elements.
“Great disappointment,” said Zakaluzny, co-director of the Ensemble. “We had submitted the preparation work, people had … taken a week of vacations and suddenly they go nowhere fast.”
Thirty-one of the nearly 60-person group would perform at the Folclórico Internacional festival de Barranquilla Estefanía Caicedo in the coastal cities of Barranquilla and Ciénaga.
They rehearsed since earlier this year and were planned to put 15 shows in Columbia for 10 days.
Hours before their flight was to rise from Winnipeg, they found out that a stage of Toronto’s trip to Bogota had been canceled.
“The festival expected we were there and participating, they had made arrangements for hotels, food, transport, all those things at their end,” said Zakaluzny.
“The day before the festival starts, we suddenly left them without guilt, with a huge gap in their setup.”
Zakaluzny said that the group investigated alternative flight options through their travel agency, but was not successful.
Information Radio – MBWorld Archery Youth Championships confronted with problems because of Air Canada Strike
Riel Dion tells guest host Cory Funk how flight complications because of the Air Canada strike influence the World Archery Youth Championships 2025 in Winnipeg.
“To cover themselves, they say they have tried to make alternative arrangements, but there are no available. I’m not sure … That actually happens, but they don’t give you much notification and actually throw everything in a state of disorder.”
Although Air Canada will provide the Group payments, the part of their journey has booked through a Columbia Airline that does not cancel that flight, so the group is out of its own pocket for that flight.
Kerilee Falloon, Director of Communication for the Winnipeg Airport Authority, said it is best to stay at home if you know in advance that your flight has been canceled and hoped to book.
“It is best not to come to the airport, because the airport will not be your contact point to book.”
The schedule of the archery competition had to be bumped into a day – to start on Wednesday – to accommodate potential late arrivals, said Riel Dion, a member of the local team who manages the championships.
Dion said that the tense negotiation situation between Air Canada and its staff has created a layer of uncertainty for the competition.
“Planning an event of this scale is a challenge for itself, and when you add something like a strike on top, it certainly makes things a bit harder,” said Dion, who is also the founder and CEO of Event Management Company Event Camp.
He said so far that some international athletes have reached the US or Canada, but had to scramble to make alternative flight packages to come to Winnipeg.
Lily Azli is pleased to fight this week in the World Archery Youth Championships in Winnipeg, but she is also disappointed that core members from her team from Australia will not fire an arrows. Some of their flights were canceled, an Air Canada strike that affects travelers on their way to or to Canada.
“There are one [athletes] From further road, especially Southeast Asia, who are still on the phone with me that we still can’t come, our flights have been canceled, “he said CBC Information radio Host Marcy Markusa.
Faiuuz Azli’s 15-year-old son and Lily, his 18-year-old daughter, belonged to the lucky ones who did not confront cancellations from Australia. But 15 athletes and six officials were not lucky.
Of the 19-member team from Australia, Azli estimates that about 14 will make it on time to compete.
“I am speechless because we know all the children, they are all, as a team, they are very close and now some of them will not be here,” he said. “It’s devastating, it’s very sad.”
