Tag Archives: Labour

WASHINGTON - Courts in the United States would take "many, many years" to resolve the battle between Canada and Michigan over Line 5, the pipeline's operator told MPs Tuesday as he pleaded for a negot...

OTTAWA - A new report finds that women in the skilled trades earn about half what men do, because they're concentrated in lower-paying fields. The report from the Labour Market Information Council loo...

MONTREAL - A Montreal-area electric vehicle maker says the $100-million investment from Ottawa and Quebec announced Monday for a battery pack assembly plant will help make its fleet less expensive. Li...

CALGARY - The rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations across the country is frustrating several groups of workers who identify as front-line employees and want to be bumped up in the queue. The National Advi...

OTTAWA - Canada's economy added 259,000 jobs last month, whipping past expectations to pull the country closer to pre-pandemic employment levels, with young women staring at the longest road to recove...

YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories says it will increase its minimum wage to $15.20 an hour starting Sept. 1. The territory's minimum wage is currently $13.46 an hour and hasn't increased since 2...

OTTAWA - An international group that includes Canada is urging the federal Liberals to weave quality-of-life indicators into the budgeting process as a way to justify any post-pandemic stimulus. The O...

OTTAWA - Decades of job gains for women could vanish if Ottawa's plan to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic doesn't rethink federal skills programs and stimulus plans, experts said Monday.Low-income w...

CALGARY - Some employees of a central Alberta pork plant that shut down due to COVID-19 are afraid to go back to work, their union president says. Olymel's facility in Red Deer was shuttered Feb. 15 b...

A pork processing plant in central Alberta has announced it has been given the green light to gradually reopen after a COVID-19 outbreak forced it to shut down for two weeks. The Olymel facility in Re...