Tag Archives: Labour

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government says the province's lowest-paid workers are getting a wage boost to keep pace with inflation. The Ministry of Labour says the minimum wage will increase from...

Workers at the City of Melville have voted in favour of job action. According to the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which represents 32 employees with the city, the overwhelming majority v...

A major winter storm disrupted travel plans, closed schools and shuttered city services across Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces Thursday, as communities dug out from a wintry cocktail that b...

OTTAWA - Liberal MP Karina Gould said she would work toward establishing a basic personal income if she wins the party's leadership race next month. Gould spoke about the policy at Fredericton's food ...

CALGARY - Job action involving more than 4,000 school support workers is on track to grow into Calgary and other areas of Alberta after five more union locals voted to strike. Staff in Edmonton, Sturg...

MONTREAL - An 89-year-old man was fighting for his life Wednesday after he was found outside a long-term care home in the city's east end, Montreal police said. The man was discovered around 7:30 a.m....

Shopify Inc.'s president has come out in favour of a shipping exemption that U.S President Donald Trump's trade feuds could end. Harley Finkelstein threw his support Tuesday behind the de minimis exem...

MONTREAL - The union that represents workers at what was Canada's only unionized Amazon warehouse says the online retail giant has begun shutting down its seven facilities in Quebec this week, putting...

OTTAWA - Canada's unemployment rate ticked down in January as the labour market added 76,000 jobs, beating economist expectations for the month. The jobless rate ticked down 0.1 percentage points to 6...

OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.6 per cent in January. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, h...