The ongoing coronavirus pandemic is affecting Peterborough’s employment numbers, and not in a good way. “Unfortunately we are the second-highest rate of unemployment out of any city in Canada,” said Karen Wilson, executive director at Employment Planning & Counselling in Peterborough, Ont. According to Statistics Canada, Peterborough’s unemployment rate for October was 11.7 per[…]
At a time of widespread layoffs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a London, Ont., pizza-making factory is looking to expand its workforce. Dr. Oetker says its facility on the eastern edge of the city is looking to hire 19 permanent workers in a variety of roles. READ MORE: Coronavirus: Nearly 1 million Canadians applied[…]
As industries across the country lay off staff amid the coronavirus pandemic, security companies are seeing an increase in demand for their services. Vancouver police reported a spike in commercial break-ins at the end of March. In an interview with Simi Sara on CKNW, Robson Street Business Improvement Association executive director Teri Smith said[…]
[ad_1] From the streets of downtown Montreal to the bedroom communities of the West Island, many businesses are closed as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, their employees furloughed. One lingerie merchant owner has closed her two shops and is now trying to survive with online sales and phone orders — something that’s novel for the[…]