Manitoba is set to have the lowest minimum wage in Canada this fall. Saskatchewan has announced it will raise its minimum to $13 an hour in October, and to $15 an hour two years later. Manitoba raises its wage according to inflation, and has said it will increase in October to $12.35 an hour from[…]
A business development expert says Hamilton’s proximity to an innovation corridor in Southern Ontario is the reason why the city is one of the hot beds for tech talent in North America. City of Hamilton consultant Karol Murillo says location has a lot to do with the municipality’s placing top 10 in the category along[…]
The Canadian economy saw a second straight month of job losses in May, and most of the positions shed were in part-time work, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada. While provinces look to ease COVID-19 restrictions in the coming months, economists warn recouping these lost jobs may not happen so quickly, which[…]
Halifax has been seeing a steady growth in population for over five years, and even the COVID-19 pandemic couldn’t put an end to that trend. Between July 2019, and July 2020 Halifax’s population grew two per cent to 448,544. That’s up over 9,000 people, making one of the fastest growing areas in the country,[…]
[ad_1] OTTAWA — A shortage of experienced pilots is forcing the Royal Canadian Air Force to walk a delicate line between keeping enough seasoned aviators available to train new recruits and lead missions in the air. Air force commander Lt.-Gen. Al Meinzinger described the balancing act during a recent interview with The Canadian Press in[…]
[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] 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] “We took a one per cent growth rate under the Conservatives and turned it into a three per cent growth rate. We created 700,000 new jobs over the past three years, and right now we have the lower unemployment rate in recorded history in Canada,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. Trudeau decided the end[…]