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As we reported two weeks ago, the Quebec government will bail out Bombardier’s CSeries airliner program with an infusion of at least $1 billion. Multiple sources are reporting the announcement will come Thursday before Bombardier […]

Emirates Air, whose global expansion has caused controversy in several countries, has held pilot recruitment events in Toronto and Calgary in recent weeks, even though attracting pilots doesn’t seem to be a problem for the […]

Aeryon Labs, of Waterloo, Ontario, has secured a $60 million investment from Summit Partners to fuel the expansion of its rapidly growing small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) business. The nine-year-old company is already one of […]

Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau is showing every sign of following through on his pledge to cancel Canada’s participation in the F-35 program and that will likely mean a three-way race for a less expensive and […]

Nav Canada has hosted more than a dozen delegations from the U.S. in recent months as Americans look at alternatives to their government owned and run airspace management system. The U.S. Congress could, as early […]

A Porter Airlines Bombardier Q400 was forced to make an emergency landing in Sydney, Nova Scotia on Monday amid passenger complaints about the lack of onboard emergency masks. The aircraft was on a flight from […]

A Montreal inventor has allowed a close-up look at his hoverboard prototype and shown off the growing enterprise that investor funding appears to be creating in an industrial area of the city. Alexandru Duru has […]

Bombardier executives told an airline conference Wednesday the company is “100 percent committed” to the CSeries and continuing its aggressive certification program. At the European Regions Airline Association meeting in Berlin, Ross Mitchell, Bombardier’s VP […]

Pratt and Whitney Canada will develop the engines for Turkey’s first indigenous airline program. The company will start work at its Longeuil, Quebec plant in 2016 to power the TRJet, which is an update of […]

A Provincial Airlines Dash-8 came within about six metres of a drone while on a flight from Deer Lake to Gander, Newfoundland/Labrador on Monday. Transport Canada is investigating the report from the crew. They said […]

A Cold War fighter pilot who helped lay the foundation of Canada’s proud air demonstration team heritage was inducted into the Honourary Snowbird Society last week. Lt. Col. (retired) Fern Villeneuve was the team lead for […]

New proposed rules to bring crew rest provisions for some of Canada’s airline pilots in line with those of most other countries are on hold pending the outcome of the federal election. Transport Canada has […]

Bombardier’s withering financial problems are leading to speculation that the family control over the company is about to come to an end. Various financial publications are predicting Bombardier will be bailed out of its cash crisis […]

The pilot of an Orca Airways Navajo has been dismissed for running off the end of the runway at Tofino Airport and not reporting the incident. According to the CBC, the unidentified pilot warned his […]

George Miller, the former team lead of the Snowbirds and Aviation Hall of Fame member marked his 80th birthday and  60th year of continuous flying on Oct. 6 in a most familiar way. He took […]