[ad_1] The White House defended President Donald Trump’s national emergency, with reports more Republicans are coming out against it, saying he was “doing his job.” [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] The federal government is investing $100 million to ensure the competitiveness of small- and medium-sized producers within the steel and aluminum supply chain. READ MORE: Federal minister tells Hamilton Steel Summit, ‘We have your back’ Navdeep Bains, Canada’s minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, made the funding announcement during a visit to Nova[…]
[ad_1] Nine thousand is a number Canadians have been hearing a lot this week. That’s the number of job losses the Trudeau government says it’s worried about, should SNC-Lavalin be handed a criminal conviction on fraud and bribery charges. The Quebec engineering giant currently has around 8,700 employees in Canada. Those are the people the[…]
[ad_1] The latest jobs numbers from Statistics Canada remain stagnant in Alberta. Although the province has 3,800 more jobs than it did last month, the trend factors in the creation of 11,500 public-sector jobs and the loss of 7,000 private-sector positions. Alberta’s unemployment rate rose half a percentage point compared to last month, reaching 7.3[…]
[ad_1] Calgary now has the highest unemployment rate in the country, and with an election looming, the pressure is on for the government and opposition to show how they can kill the trend. Adam MacVicar reports. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] The struggle is real for women all around the world. Though Canada is a safer place than many countries, women here still face sexual aggression and harassment in their lives, and some of it happens on the job, especially to women whose job puts them in the public spotlight. Ross Lord reports. [ad_2] Source[…]
[ad_1] Working in a restaurant kitchen might be a chaotic scene for some, but for Jose Mendoza, it’s another day closer to his dream of becoming a chef. It’s a career path inspired by his grandmother. “Every time I was at her place, she always makes me some kind of dish that I did not[…]
[ad_1] So, we heard from Gerald Butts and it was pretty much what I had expected. He did his job and accepted responsibility for any miscommunication. READ MORE: ‘Consider a second opinion’: Gerald Butts says ‘grey area’ between political staff, Wilson-Raybould on SNC-Lavalin affair He says during the later SNC-Lavalin discussions they did not know[…]
[ad_1] Alberta Premier Rachel Notley told reporters Thursday that Alberta’s struggle to get its oil to market has a far greater impact on jobs than SNC-Lavalin. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] The labour market generated a second straight month of strong job gains in February with the creation of 55,900 net new positions, all of which were full time. The latest jobs report by Statistics Canada says the unemployment rate held firm last month at 5.8 per cent as more people hunted for work. The[…]