Tag Archives: Labour

MONTREAL - Via Rail says it is temporarily laying off 1,000 employees due to blockades that continue to halt trains on CN tracks in Eastern Canada. The Crown corporation has suspended passenger servic...

MONTREAL - The recent killing of a 22-year-old woman in Quebec has focused renewed attention on Canada's prostitution laws, which critics say are applied irregularly across the country ...

MUNICH - The federal Liberal government will "have the votes" to ensure North America's new trade deal becomes the law of the land, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday before championi...

OTTAWA - The backlog of problems created by the federal government's faulty electronic pay system has dropped below 200,000 for the first time since shortly after it was brought fully online...

VICTORIA - A tentative agreement in a forest industry strike that kept 3,000 workers off the job since last July is being greeted with cautious optimism by a Vancouver Island mayor who says the d...

The Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation is holding a sanctions vote across the province this week to find a path forward after continued contract negotiation failures with the provincial governmen...

WASHINGTON - U.S. hiring jumped last month, and many more people were encouraged to look for work, showing that the economy remains robust despite threats from China's viral outbreak, an ongoing trade...

VANCOUVER - The taxi industry is promising to continue its fight against Uber and Lyft after a judge rejected a bid to grant an injunction against the companies pending a legal challeng...

REGINA - A blockade of Regina's Co-op Refinery is back up after talks between the company and union broke off late Friday. Unifor said earlier this week it would comply with an injunction ag...

OTTAWA - A massive spike in incomplete applications for the federal government's signature summer-jobs program last year has officials revising the forms and guides that explain how to get the money. ...