[ad_1] 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[…]
[ad_1] Prior to the 1960s, Ken Stannix estimates that the busy rail-hub of McAdam, N.B. was home to almost 3,000 people. “We started out as a logging town and then it grew into a rail centre with the CPR. At the height of the CPR there was probably about 600 people working in this areas[…]
[ad_1] Former House of Commons sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers says he is retiring next month as Canada’s ambassador to Ireland, potentially setting himself up for a bid to become New Brunswick Liberal leader. Vickers, hailed as a hero for helping to end the 2014 attack on Parliament Hill, said in a bilingual Facebook post Friday he’ll[…]
[ad_1] Family members of a Canadian mining executive who was kidnapped and killed by gunmen in western Africa said at his funeral Wednesday that his murder was senseless, but they also recognize he died while pursuing the work he was passionate about. Officials in the Burkina Faso government have said the body of Kirk Woodman[…]
[ad_1] English Montreal School Board (EMSB) chairperson Angela Mancini was in the hot seat Monday evening, as school commissioners gathered for a special meeting to address Mancini’s prolonged absence from board-related functions. On Friday, Mancini attended an EMSB event at a school in Hampstead; it was her first public appearance since last October. During the time Mancini was absent,[…]
[ad_1] View link » Getting back into a career after staying home to raise kids can be daunting, especially competing against people who haven’t left the workforce. According to data from the Harvard Business Review, stay-at-home moms are half as likely to land a job interview compared to moms who get laid off. In[…]
[ad_1] After two years of keeping the pedal to the metal, there are signs that the Canadian economy is going to ease off the gas a bit in 2019. But there is no sign yet of that expected slowdown in the labour market. Unemployment is still at 5.6 per cent, a 40-year low. https://positivesaathi.com/ There[…]
[ad_1] Alice Clark wanted to be a Mountie before women were even permitted to join the force. But when she joined in 1981, it wasn’t the honourable job she was expecting. After experiencing years of harassment, Clark left the force and became the first woman to successfully sue the RCMP for sexual harassment. READ MORE: $220M[…]
[ad_1] The Alberta government is full steam ahead on an advertising campaign trying to convince Canadians that the Trans Mountain Pipeline is a must-build project. Work began on the Keep Canada Working campaign back in January, and as recently as November, the government said it had spent $10 million on the project. But on Jan.[…]
[ad_1] Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday an attestation added to the Canada Summer Jobs Program in 2017 was not clear enough and was reworded to only ban “activities that were specifically going to limit women’s rights.” [ad_2] Source link