Tag Archives: Labour

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - About a dozen fishers interrupted a news conference with the country's environment ministers in St. John's on Wednesday to demand the federal government reinstate a 32-year moratori...

VANCOUVER - An expert says a narrowly averted labour stoppage at British Columbia ports could re-emerge despite federal intervention unless the core issue of automation and its threat to union jobs is...

QUEBEC CITY, Que. - The Quebec government and the association representing provincial police officers have reached a new agreement in principle on a six-year contract. Both sides were forced back to t...

The Saskatchewan Government and General Employees Union (SGEU) has ratified a three-year contract agreement with the provincial government. According to the Government of Saskatchewan, the three-year ...

EDMONTON - Legal Aid Alberta says it will continue to provide lawyers to those who can't afford them as negotiations resume with the province and law society over a new governance agreement. The organ...

TORONTO - Workers for Ontario's main liquor retailer, who say the government's plan to open up the alcohol market poses an existential threat to their jobs, are now on strike, with stores expected to ...

OTTAWA - The Canadian job market stalled in June as the economy lost 1,400 jobs and the unemployment rate climbed to its highest level in more than two years, bolstering the case for further interest ...

OTTAWA - The union representing Canada's border workers says members have voted 91 per cent in favour of a new collective agreement. More than 9,000 Canada Border Services Agency workers were planning...

VICTORIA - Three veteran New Democrat cabinet ministers and community stalwarts in Surrey and Victoria have announced they won't seek re-election in British Columbia's fall vote. Harry Bains, Bruce Ra...

EDMONTON - Legal Aid Alberta says it will stop providing lawyers to those who can't afford them by next Tuesday over a funding and governance dispute with the province. It says in a statement the Unit...