Tag Archives: Labour

OTTAWA - A quick look at Canada's February employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.6 per cent (6.6) Employment rate: 61.1 per cent (61.1) Participation r...

The Supreme Court of Canada has found an Ontario law that limits spending on third-party election advertising violates the constitutional right to vote. The country's highest court dismissed the Ontar...

OTTAWA - Police say they have made more than 100 arrests and laid more than 300 charges in a national child exploitation crackdown, with some help from device-sniffing dogs. Representatives of the RCM...

OTTAWA - The union representing front-line Mounties wants Ottawa to dismiss any notion of shifting border security responsibilities away from the RCMP. The National Police Federation says the RCMP is ...

Twenty million dollars to address class complexity - the number of students in each class who require additional help beyond what teachers normally provide - has been added to the provincial collectiv...

OTTAWA - The federal union that represents Canada's front-line customs and immigration officers says it's worried about staffing levels at the Canada Border Services Agency as the country responds to ...

MONTREAL - Protesters accusing Amazon of union-busting gathered in downtown Montreal today to continue their calls for a boycott of the company after it decided to shutter its Quebec warehouses in the...

OTTAWA - Large numbers of public servants working in the federal government's three biggest departments aren't following Ottawa's three-days-per-week office work rule, federal data shows. The federal ...

EDMONTON - Hundreds of striking school support workers marched through the streets of downtown Edmonton to the Alberta legislature on budget day and stood outside, waving signs, blowing horns and dema...

EDMONTON - Alberta's finances, tied for generations to the steep peaks and sharp valleys of oil and gas prices, are once again plunging deep into deficit, with no immediate relief in sight. Finance Mi...