Tag Archives: Labour

VANCOUVER - Canada's first death from the novel coronavirus has highlighted the urgent and often ignored need for better staffing at long-term care facilities where elderly residents are especial...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau sought to ease the concerns over the novel coronavirus outbreak on a day where financial markets dropped along with the price of oil,&nb...

OTTAWA - The unemployment rate in Canada nudged up a tenth of a percentage point to 5.6 per cent as the economy added 30,300 net new jobs in February, Statistics Canada said Friday, beating expectatio...

MONTREAL - Via Rail Canada says most of the 1,000 employees affected by the suspension of service last month due to blockades will be called back to work as most normal service resumes on Sa...

VICTORIA - Workers in British Columbia affected by domestic or sexual violence will be eligible for up to five days of paid leave a year under legislation introduced Tuesday that amends the province's...

HALIFAX - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says provincial health authorities won't be alone in their fight against the novel coronavirus because the federal government will ensure they have the resource...

OTTAWA - It's been billed as the largest-ever investment in the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Coast Guard during a time of peace. Over the next decade, the federal government will invest tens of bi...

OTTAWA - A human-rights lawsuit against a Canadian mining company can be heard in British Columbia, even though it involves events in Africa, the Supreme Court of Canada ...

EDMONTON - Highlights: Alberta's United Conservative government tabled its budget 2020-21 Thursday. Here are some of the highlights: - A $6.8 billion deficit on revenues of $50 billion. - The bud...

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. - Ontario Premier Doug Ford kicked off his re-election campaign on Saturday night, a move he makes more than two years ahead of the next provincial election and on t...