Tag Archives: Labour

MONTREAL - Visual effects and animation companies are uniting to strike a better deal with the Quebec government after it implemented tax changes that some firms say will cost them nearly two-thirds o...

Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange says there's more work to be done before a new compensation contract for the province's doctors is finalized. Speaking to media Wednesday, LaGrange said she's ...

EDMONTON - Increased Indigenous participation in Alberta's labour market could boost the province's GDP by between two and three percentage points, the equivalent of $8 billion to $11 billion annually...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia economist Lars Osberg's latest book on the widening gap between the very richest and the rest argues the trend is creating disappointed Canadians prone to distrusting one another...

VANCOUVER - Picket lines have gone up at six grain terminals in Metro Vancouver as workers began a strike. More than 600 workers represented by Grain Workers Union Local 333 are off the job. Union pre...

China rolled out a raft of measures Tuesday aimed at countering a prolonged downturn in its property market that is weighing on the world's second largest economy. The chief of China's central bank sa...

Canada's grain farmers say a strike at Metro Vancouver terminals would cripple crop exports if it were allowed to take place. The Grain Growers of Canada say in a statement that it is "deeply concerne...

Jason Sully would normally spend the first weekend of a provincial election period immersed in campaign logistics - knocking on doors, organizing volunteers and all the other behind-the-scenes work in...

MONTREAL - Quebec's labour tribunal has stymied the latest negotiation tactic of a union representing most of the province's nurses. Fdration Interprofessionnelle de la sant du Qubec had threatened th...

MONTREAL - Quebec's Superior Court has authorized a class-action lawsuit involving temporary foreign workers who are suing the federal government over work permits that bind them to an employer. The l...