[ad_1] Global’s Dallas Flexhaug sits down with Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi for a look back at 2018 and a look ahead to 2019. Nenshi says the beginning of 2018 was looking promising for Calgary’s economy but that in the last quarter things “took a U-turn” for the worse. He says quality job creation and investing[…]
[ad_1] Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham said President Donald Trump reassured him about his plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria and his commitment to defeating Islamic State during a White House meeting on Sunday. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] More public-sector job cuts appear to be coming in Manitoba and a long-standing ban on civil service layoffs is about to expire. Premier Brian Pallister, in his third year of a promise to eliminate the deficit by 2024, says he is not planning any large-scale layoffs, but some trimming remains to be done, largely[…]
[ad_1] “I know that the opposition wants to sort of revel in what they insist on hoping is defeat, but we’ve made more progress on getting a pipeline to tidewater than any other government has in the last 70 years,” Notley told The Canadian Press in a year-end interview. Notley will take voters to the polls in[…]
[ad_1] 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?[…]
[ad_1] His message to laid off Cape Breton call centre workers is straightforward. But the Iowa-based businessman’s words resonate like gospel in this hardscrabble region plunged into economic uncertainty earlier this month. “Things are going to stay the same or get better,” says Anthony Marlowe, a self-made telecommunications mogul who himself started as a telemarketer[…]
[ad_1] The Trudeau Liberals haven’t shut the door on a guaranteed-income program in their search for ways to help workers adapt to an unsteady and shifting labour market. In separate interviews, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos appear warmer to the idea than they have before, when they argued the Canada[…]
[ad_1] TORONTO – The Toronto Catholic District School Board says the province’s decision to cut programs aimed at providing students with extra skills and support will result in the immediate loss of 95 part-time jobs. In a briefing note sent this week to trustees, the school board says the jobs losses will affected about 35[…]
[ad_1] The city of Toronto is now accepting summer job applications for camps, aquatic programs and various recreations programs. The recruitment drive for camps will run until Feb. 4 and all others to Feb. 15. Aquatic positions are ongoing. READ MORE: Toronto receives $8.6M from federal government to boost youth job program Positions still vacant[…]
[ad_1] TORONTO – The Ontario government has introduced legislation that would prevent a strike or lockout at one of the province’s major power utilities, a move its says is necessary to avoid power outages over the holidays. Labour Minister Laurie Scott says that if passed, the bill would send the dispute between the Power Workers’[…]