Despite a claim by SNC-Lavalin’s CEO that the Montreal-based company never cited the protection of 9,000 Canadian jobs as the reason for a remediation agreement, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reiterated his claim Wednesday that a trial could put jobs at risk. Source link
It’s been five months since former Edmonton Journal columnist Paula Simons was appointed to the Senate. Gord Steinke sits down with Simons to talk about the move. Source link
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 government[…]
Executives from Facebook offered to open a new data centre in Canada to get the former Conservative government to cut it a deal exempting data held on non-Canadians by the company from federal privacy regulations, British media reports suggest. Now, a Liberal MP is urging the parliamentary committee studying Facebook and the Cambridge Analytica scandal[…]
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose office is under fire for allegedly pressuring his former justice minister to try to ensure a major construction company avoided a corruption trial, on Friday said he had been concerned about possible job losses. READ MORE: Canada’s top civil servant fears ‘somebody’s going to be shot’ during next[…]
Canada may be experiencing one of its biggest labour shortages in years but that doesn’t mean employees are seeing wage growth reflecting that talent crunch. Last week, a senior official with the Bank of Canada said one of the causes for the “puzzling” lack of wage growth could be that employers are struggling to find[…]
OTTAWA — The federal Liberals want to widen the reach of the country’s job-training programs after senior officials heard warnings that Canada has been spending about half what comparable countries do on efforts to keep their workers employable. READ MORE: Reality check: Does Trudeau deserve all the credit for Canada’s economic and job gains? A[…]