A prominent Indigenous historian says it’s the ideal time to drop the name Edward Cornwallis from a coast guard ship, as the federal agency announced plans on Monday to spend $12.1 million renovating the vessel. Daniel Paul, a Mi’kmaw elder and the author of “We Were Not the Savages,” said in an interview the[…]
A new survey says less than 40 per cent of Manitoba civil servants feel as though they are valued employees. The 2018 employment engagement survey shows a significant decline in the number of people feeling satisfied with their departments and their work since the last survey in 2015. Many employees in the survey say government[…]
Hundreds of job seekers, resume in hand, gathered at the Western Fair Agriplex on Tuesday for the London and Area Works job fair. The fair comes just days after the city announced a new task force, dedicated to filling the more than 9,000 job openings that Statistics Canada report in London. READ MORE: Mayor Ed[…]
[ad_1] TORONTO — SNC-Lavalin‘s local employees will be forced to work for foreign competitors if the embattled engineering firm is barred from bidding on federal contracts, diminishing its role as rare Canadian global champion, the company’s CEO said Wednesday. “There would be a reduction with us but these are talented folks. They’ll get a job,” Neil[…]
[ad_1] TORONTO — SNC-Lavalin‘s local employees will be forced to work for foreign competitors if the embattled engineering firm is barred from bidding on federal contracts, diminishing its role as rare Canadian global champion, the company’s CEO said Wednesday. “There would be a reduction with us but these are talented folks. They’ll get a job,” Neil[…]
[ad_1] The former head of the Remai Modern art gallery in Saskatoon has bowed out of a new job in Auckland, New Zealand. Gregory Burke is withdrawing from a new job as director of the Auckland Art Gallery over a harassment allegation stemming from his work at the Remai. Story continues below Related New ice[…]
[ad_1] Unifor, the union representing General Motors workers in Oshawa, says it is hopeful that the automotive company won’t be completely abandoning the city after holding talks with GM. “I am much more confident today than I was a month ago that, together, we will find a resolution,” said Unifor president Jerry Dias in a[…]
[ad_1] The new federal budget, released Tuesday, includes measures designed to help Canadians upgrade their skills at work. It does this through two main programs. The first is called the Canada Training Benefit. It’s a program designed to provide Canadians with funding to help pay for retraining courses. Every year, workers who are between the[…]
[ad_1] OTTAWA — The final budget of the Trudeau government‘s mandate will scatter billions in fresh spending – on everything from prescription drugs to retraining workers to first-time home buyers – as the Liberals commit to an electoral fight that pits their deficit-spending vision versus the Conservatives’ balanced-books approach. READ MORE: Who are the winners[…]
[ad_1] A Toronto District School Board (TDSB) memo obtained by Global News says the Ontario PC government’s plan to increase high school class sizes could lead to 800 teachers losing their jobs. The memo suggests job losses could also affect teachers at the elementary school level. On Friday, the Doug Ford government announced it would[…]