Tag Archives: Labour

EDMONTON - Thousands of Alberta government workers, including probation and conservation officers and administrative staff, returned to work in their offices full time Monday. Sunday marked the offici...

OTTAWA - Canada Post and the union representing thousands of its mail carriers say they have finalized outstanding contractual language in the tentative agreements reached last month that would end mo...

EDMONTON - Alberta's 9,000 unionized provincial employees are going back to the office full-time starting this weekend, but not without a brown bag protest. Bobby-Joe Borodey, vice-president of the Al...

WINNIPEG - A post-secondary institute in Manitoba is winding down operations, with the provincial government blaming a federal cap on international student visas as the reason for the closure. The Man...

OTTAWA - The union representing employees at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said staff have been told 1,371 agency jobs will be cut as part of the government's cost-cutting exercise. The Agricult...

MONTREAL - Montreal-area transit service Exo is cutting dozens of jobs and is warning of future service reductions, as Quebec's public transportation sector continues to struggle under a persistent fu...

OTTAWA - Thousands of employees at Global Affairs Canada have been issued notices warning they may lose their jobs, months before a foreign policy review is completed to give the department updated pr...

VANCOUVER - The union representing ambulance paramedics and emergency dispatchers in British Columbia says its more than 6,000 members will be taking a strike vote in early February. Ambulance Paramed...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney kicked off the winter session of Parliament on Monday by unveiling a new plank in the Liberals' affordability agenda. Making the announcement from an Ottawa grocery...

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada says it is closing seven of its research operations as part of the federal government's efforts to cut the size of the public service. The federal department said rese...