Category Archives: Labour
Ontario under new orders as emergency doctors call for vaccine rollout transparency
Ontario residents dealt with their first day under a stay-at-home order Thursday, while federal officials warned that access to vaccines in Canada will remain a challenge until at least April. Kristen Bones was at an outdoor rink at Toronto's Greenwood...
A look at new restrictions under Ontario’s stay-at-home order
TORONTO — Ontario has declared a state of emergency and issued a stay-at-home order that will take effect Thursday in response to surging COVID-19 infections that threaten to overrun the health-care system. Residents will be required to stay home, lea...
Canadian blueberries no threat to U.S. producers, embassy tells trade commission
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canadian blueberry farmers and embassy officials pushed back Tuesday against claims that U.S. producers are being driven out of business by cheap imports from north of the border. At the request of Trade Representative Robert Lighthi...
Feds change sick-leave benefit, applicants required to say if they travelled
OTTAWA — The federal government has ordered that anyone applying for COVID-19 benefits will need to report whether they have recently travelled outside of the country — though it isn’t clear how it will catch and penalize any cheaters. The government
Bitter fight by Ontario correctional officers to form own union fizzles
TORONTO — A bid by disaffected Ontario correctional officers to form their own union has fizzled after a bitter campaign to win the hearts and cards of thousands of front-line jail workers. Despite help from a Quebec-based labour organization, the six-...
Education said key in overcoming health-care worker opposition to COVID-19 vaccine
TORONTO — A consensus appears to have developed that educating reluctant health-care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is better than trying to force them to get the shots. While most of those on the pandemic front lines are eager to
Two Alberta health-care workers die from COVID-19: health minister
CALGARY — Alberta's health minister says the province has lost two health-care workers due to COVID-19. Tyler Shandro started Tuesday's COVID-19 briefing by honouring the memory of Joe Marie (Jing) Corral of Calgary and announcing the death of a second...
B.C.’s top doctor limits staff increases at five industrial worksites
VICTORIA — Thousands of workers who would normally return to their jobs at industrial projects in northern British Columbia after the holiday break are spending more time at home in an effort to ease the strain on the region's health-care
Ottawa urged to ban CEO bonuses if wage subsidy paid and add top COVID tax bracket
TORONTO — The federal government is being urged to explicitly prevent Canada's highest-paid CEOs from getting bonuses if their companies obtained wage subsidies. "The wage subsidy in Canada is being changed on an almost monthly basis to tweak it, to im...
Education workers left out of child-care provision during Ontario lockdown: union
TORONTO — Thousands of Ontario education workers set to go back to school next week amid a provincewide lockdown are facing impossible choices, a union representing them argued Friday as it warned many don't have proper child-care options available to