Tag Archives: Labour

OTTAWA - The $18.4 million CBC/Radio-Canada awarded in bonuses to its employees this year is shocking, Bloc Qubcois Leader Yves-Franois Blanchet said. He also said bonuses at the public broadcaster ar...

TORONTO - Ontario child-care operators in the national $10-a-day program will soon be compensated in a way the province says will cover the true cost of providing care, after many said they were strug...

LANGLEY, B.C. - The British Columbia government is providing $2.65 billion for upgrades to Highway 1 through the Fraser Valley in an effort to relieve traffic congestion and ease daily commutes betwee...

OTTAWA - A recently released international report says Canada's temporary foreign worker program is a "breeding ground" for contemporary slavery. The final report by a United Nations special rapporteu...

MONTREAL - Workers at Montreal's Queen Elizabeth hotel protested for a third straight day on Saturday in the middle of the busy summer tourist season, and they were joined by picketers from two other ...

REGINA - Saskatchewan's plan for a new policing service offers little information for the mayor of Warman, is too vague for the mayor of Wolseley, and the reeve of the Rural Municipality of Kelvington...

OTTAWA - Students who have been hunting for a summer job and recent immigrants looking for work have felt the brunt of the country's weakening labour market, Statistics Canada's latest employment repo...

MONTREAL - About 2,600 unionized employees from hotels in some of the province's largest cities walked off the job Thursday, protesting an impasse in contract talks. The 24-hour strike hit 23 hotels i...

MONTREAL - Hotel workers in three of Quebec's largest cities are set to walk off the job Thursday in the middle of the busy summer tourist season. The one-day strike will affect 23 hotels in the Montr...

OTTAWA - Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault says the federal government is considering new regulations that could make fewer employers eligible to hire temporary foreign workers. It's part of a su...