Category Archives: Labour
Canada Post worksite hit by major virus outbreak excluded from provincial inspections
TORONTO — Ontario labour inspectors are homing in on warehouses and distribution centres, but the site of a major workplace COVID-19 outbreak isn’t included in the ongoing inspections: Canada Post. More than 300 employees at the postal service’s Gatew...
Air traffic controllers say potential cuts at Nav Canada would put lives at risk
OTTAWA — Air traffic controllers say Nav Canada is mulling layoffs even if it receives a possible bailout from Ottawa, jeopardizing passenger safety. More cuts would axe critically needed workers and make for a more hazardous airspace in corridors acro...
Screen-shared vision: Biden-Trudeau meeting to feature common ground, old irritants
WASHINGTON — Call it the Screen-Shared Summit. Tuesday's bilateral meeting of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Joe Biden — a strictly virtual affair, thanks to COVID-19 — offers hope of a new start for Canada-U. S. relations. It will be the...
Kenney says no new taxes as Alberta preps for another tough times pandemic budget
EDMONTON — On Thursday it’s budget day in Alberta, a time that will cruelly and ironically remind residents that last year’s projected eye-popping $6.8-billion deficit was actually the good old days. Since then, that deficit has tripled to $21 billion ...
Federal workers paid $819 million to stay home during the pandemic under ‘699’ clause
OTTAWA — More than one in three federal public servants were granted paid time off work during the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic, at a cost exceeding $800 million, according to a Treasury Board document. At the onset of
Liberals move to add weeks to EI, COVID-19 benefits for workers and parents
OTTAWA — The Trudeau Liberals sought Friday to get ahead of a looming benefits panic, announcing plans to add extra weeks of income support for unemployed workers and parents at home with children because of the pandemic. The government plans to
Government to deduct taxes from Phoenix damages payments, civil service union says
OTTAWA — The country's biggest civil service union says the federal government plans to issue payments of up to $2,500 to its members next month — minus taxes — even though a dispute over the tax status of the damages
Labour groups ask Liberals to extend pandemic benefits as workers set to max out aid
OTTAWA — It has been 11 months since Christine Ilott lost her job in live theatre when the pandemic forced closures in the entertainment industry. The Toronto-area woman has unsuccessfully hunted for work since, relying on the Canada Emergency Respons...
Saskatchewan extends public health order, says 1 in 5 in care homes fully vaccinated
REGINA — Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says about one in five residents and staff in long-term care homes in the province have been fully immunized against COVID-19. During a briefing Tuesday, he said they have received both shots of one
Federal data gives most detailed picture yet of where CERB went in St. John’s
The city of St. John's, N.L., had about 10.52 per cent of its residents receiving the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) last year. An analysis of federal data by The Canadian Press shows that the city had on average 17,361 recipients