Category Archives: Labour
Bid bon voyage to ArriveCan travel requirement mayors of border cities urge Ottawa
WASHINGTON — Border-city mayors, tourism industry leaders and an opposition MP say it's time to bid a less-than-fond farewell to the ArriveCan app. The mayors of Niagara Falls and Sarnia, Ont., say requiring visitors to Canada to submit their health in...
Press to join U.S.-led Indo-Pacific economic framework, business leaders urge Ottawa
WASHINGTON — There's a four-letter F-word American leaders don't much use these days when they talk about international trade: "free." Instead, President Joe Biden's newest economic relationships in the Americas and the Indo-Pacific are described as "p...
N.S. court overturns 2017 law that imposed labour contract on school teachers
HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia judge has ruled that a provincial law that imposed a labour contract on teachers was unconstitutional, five years after it was passed by the former Liberal government. Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice John Keith says in
Doug Ford facing key issue for new government as education workers gear up to bargain
TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford has not even named a new cabinet, fresh off his majority election victory, and one of the biggest challenges his new government will face is already staring him down. Four of the five major education
Canada’s SOA commitment: $27M on irregular migration, 4,000 more migrants by 2028
LOS ANGELES — Leaders from across the Americas, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, signed on Friday to what U.S. President Joe Biden called a "historic commitment" to ease the pressure of northward migration. The agreement, the central accomplis...
Unemployment rate falls to new record low as wages ramp up: StatCan
OTTAWA — The Canadian job market continued to tighten in May as the unemployment rate hit another record low and wages continued to push higher, maintaining the pressure on the Bank of Canada to keep raising interest rates. Statistics Canada said
Island nations facing ‘triple crisis,’ Barbados PM says during meeting with Trudeau
LOS ANGELES — The prime minister of Barbados evoked a Jamaican reggae legend Wednesday as she described in stark terms the "triple crisis" in her region that's threatening the health and welfare of the entire Western Hemisphere. "Bob Marley would say,...
Federal Court says it lacks jurisdiction to hear CSIS employee’s discrimination claim
OTTAWA — A federal judge has tossed out a Canadian Security Intelligence Service employee's discrimination lawsuit against the spy service, saying Sameer Ebadi should have followed the internal grievance procedures available to him. In his newly relea...
Trudeau, Anand meet with Norad commanders, U.S. defense secretary en route to L.A.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Defence Minister Anita Anand got a first-hand look Tuesday at North America's first line of continental defence, a system experts and political leaders agree is badly in need of an upgrade. B...
Quebec legal aid lawyers set for four-day strike over equal pay with Crown attorneys
MONTREAL — Quebec's legal aid lawyers are striking this week in protest of the government's salary offer, which they say will lead to an exodus of attorneys who represent the most marginalized. About 200 legal aid lawyers walked off the job