[ad_1] A report by the Halifax Regional Municipality’s auditor general has found a “significant weakness” in the city’s property tax system, one that could lead to fraud or error. In the report released on Wednesday, Auditor General Evangeline Colman-Sadd found many employees had system access privileges that would allow them to change property assessment values,[…]
[ad_1] Unionized workers at the General Motors Oshawa Assembly Plant have walked off the job, hours after the company reaffirmed its plans to shut down the facility by the end of the year. “The workers were so upset they couldn’t work. They couldn’t believe that General Motors had announced that all their hard work was[…]
[ad_1] Calgary’s city manager, Jeff Fielding, is leaving his position to take up a new job with the City of Toronto, the City of Calgary announced Tuesday. Fielding has been Calgary’s city manager since 2014, just before the city started to see the impacts of struggling oil prices and shortly after the devastating flood of[…]
[ad_1] If you’ve been scrolling though postings, avoiding your resume or just contemplating leaving your job, 2019 needs to be a year of changes. Nir Zahavi, co-founder and CEO of Toronto corporate retreat startup Retreatify, said the idea of the perfect job or dream job is often multifaceted. While jobs may appear to be ideal, potential[…]
[ad_1] Voters in Greater Napanee recently elected the first female mayor in the town’s history. But Marg Isbester doesn’t want to make a big deal of that. She has other things on her agenda. The first-time mayor is looking forward to 2019 and the challenges that it brings. When it comes to this year, Isbester[…]
[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] Amazon announced Monday it will open a new customer fulfillment centre in Leduc County which the company says will create more than 600 full-time jobs. This will be Amazon’s second fulfillment facility in Alberta. The first is in Rocky View County and employs about 1,500 full-time associates. The Leduc centre will be Amazon’s 11th[…]
[ad_1] On Thursday, dozens of establishments across North America received bomb threats via email, many of which have now been deemed a hoax by law enforcement. Most organizations impacted received the same email, written in imperfect English, warning that unless $20,000 in bitcoin was paid, a bomb would go off. According to police and experts, technology[…]
[ad_1] By Staff The Canadian Press The Nova Scotia government says the sale of the shuttered ServiCom call centre in Cape Breton should be completed before the end of the year. When the call centre in Sydney was closed a week ago, almost 700 workers lost their jobs. READ MORE: Nova Scotia offers special government support[…]
[ad_1] The employment outlook for the Kitchener-Cambridge area is very positive for the first quarter of 2019, according to a survey of employers conducted by ManpowerGroup. Thirty-five per cent of employers surveyed intend to hire in the first quarter of 2019 while only two per cent expect to be making job cuts. “They are certainly[…]