Category Archives: Labour

Hardest hit businesses call for extension of federal wage, rent subsidies

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals are facing calls from some of the hardest-hit businesses in the pandemic to use the coming budget to extend emergency relief programs beyond June, saying many will still need help even as the economy picks

Liberal MP confronts minister over new watchdog to oversee Canadian companies abroad

OTTAWA — A veteran Liberal backbencher took a Liberal cabinet minister to task Tuesday for failing to give real teeth to a new watchdog who is supposed to investigate human rights abuses by Canadian companies operating abroad. Toronto MP John McKay

Manitoba Hydro IBEW workers on strike after rejecting Crown utility’s offer

WINNIPEG — Some Manitoba Hydro workers went on strike Tuesday after their union said its members overwhelmingly rejected an offer from the Crown utility. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 2034 notified Manitoba Hydro that worker...

Senate staffers fear new harassment policy being blocked by senators

OTTAWA — Some Senate staffers are concerned that a new policy meant to protect them from workplace harassment is being blocked in the upper house by a handful of senators. But Sen. Marilou McPhedran, who is leading the charge against the

Look to next-gen oil and gas leaders to end North America’s energy stalemate: experts

WASHINGTON — North America's polarizing pipeline battles have seen many venues — from the Prime Minister's Office and the U.S. State Department to the windswept plains of Nebraska and Minnesota to judge's chambers on both sides of the Canada-U.S. borde...

Another Alberta union rejects province’s request for more bargaining delays

EDMONTON — The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees says its nursing care members and general support workers in health care have rejected a request from the province's health delivery agency to extend a delay on contract talks until the end

United Nurses of Alberta calls finance minister hypocritical in contract talks

EDMONTON — The union representing registered nurses in Alberta says it's "grossly insulting" and hypocritical for Finance Minister Travis Toews to accuse them of putting their needs first during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Normally when we’re in negotiatio...

Helping Canada reach vaccine ‘parity’ critical to reopening border: U.S. congressman

WASHINGTON — A member of Congress says it's vital for the U.S. to help Canada reach vaccine 'parity' in order to get their shared border back open.  New York Rep. Brian Higgins is cheering news of a White House plan to

Helping Canada reach vaccine ‘parity’ critical to reopening border: U.S. congressman

WASHINGTON — A member of Congress says it's vital for the U.S. to help Canada reach vaccine 'parity' in order to get their shared border back open.  New York Rep. Brian Higgins is cheering news of a White House plan to

Time for Canada, U.S. to get serious about how, when to reopen border, experts say

WASHINGTON — A panel of experts and powerful political luminaries from both Canada and the United States sounded the alarm Thursday about what they consider an urgent need to get serious about reopening the shared border. A task force assembled by