Tag Archives: Labour

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. ...

The sides in the labour dispute at the Co-op Refinery Complex (CRC) are to return to the bargaining table Friday -- and Carla McCrie can't wait. "That's the only place that we can get our people back ...