Tag Archives: Labour

OTTAWA - Canada's federal public service grew by more than 100,000 people over the past 10 years, and both the Liberals and Conservatives are looking to trim it by not filling jobs when they are left ...

OTTAWA - International students who graduated from Canadian schools are more likely to be underemployed than their Canadian peers - and many are living with lower incomes as a result. Statistics Canad...

Alberta's government says it's looking to help people with disabilities join and stay in the workforce without losing access to their existing benefits and governmental supports. To do this, the gover...

MONTREAL - A Quebec labour group is urging governments and the public to boycott Amazon because the online retail giant announced the closure of its seven warehouses in the province a few months after...

WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will hit back with steep, immediate retaliatory tariffs on American goods after U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed he is moving ahead with dev...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced a new Crown corporation Wednesday to oversee the province's rainy day fund. The Heritage Fund Opportunities Corp. is to direct policy for the Heritage Fund, wh...

EDMONTON - Alberta's public pension manager has laid off 19 employees and cut their positions, including the role of running its diversity, equity and inclusion program. A spokesperson for the Alberta...

MONTREAL - The death of a man in his 60s from a carbon monoxide leak south of Montreal highlights the dangers of the potentially deadly gas, a clinical toxicologist said Tuesday as the Quebec coroner'...

OTTAWA - An inquiry into Canada Post kicked off hearings Monday, looking into a month-long strike that ended in government intervention and the viability of the postal service's business model. Canada...

OTTAWA - The working group tasked with measuring productivity within Canada's federal public service has not looked at remote work, one of its members says. Bea Bruske, president of the Canadian Labou...