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Indian outsourcers lobbying Canada to ease TFW restrictions
By Devdas Gupta, writing from Thane, Maharashtra, India The industry body representing business process outsourcing (BPO) companies in India is lobbying[1]https://lobbycanada.gc.ca/app/secure/ocl/lrs/do/clntAddr?cid=319065&lang=eng the Canadian government to to ease short-term temporary foreign worker restrictions with the aim of expanding the four billion-dollar
In capitalist Canada, banks rob you
By ThinkPol Editorial Board Pop quiz: Who owns Canada’s “Big Five” banks? The answer: Each other. Take a look at the top three shareholders of each of Canada’s “Big Five” banks.
Employers no longer allowed to force women to wear heels in BC
By Amy Chen The province of British Columbia has banned mandatory high heels in the workplace, following an initiative by the BC Greens. The requirement to wear high heels in some workplaces is a workplace health and safety issue as
99% of CIBC shareholders vote to remain in tax havens
By Amy Chen CIBC shareholders voted 99%-1% to kill a proposal calling for the bank to pull out of tax havens and other low tax jurisdictions at the corporation’s annual shareholder meeting today in Ottawa. The proposal put forward shareholder
CIBC shares fall as boycott bites
By Amy Chen CIBC’s shares fell by nearly a percentage point wiping $400 million off the bank’s market value today as more angry customers ditched the financial institution in protest over its decision to fire 130 Canadian workers and force
Customers abandon CIBC after bank axes Canadian workers and ships jobs to India
By Amy Chen CIBC customers are abandoning the bank in droves, with some even posting photos of themselves cutting up their bank cards on social media, following the financial institution’s decision to fire 130 Canadian workers and force them to
Trudeau’s Liberals losing to leaderless Conservatives in polls
By Amy Chen A leaderless Conservative Party of Canada has overtaken Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party in the most recent Forum Research poll[1]Conservatives inch ahead, which suggests that If an election were held today, the Conservatives would win 170
Commercial AirBNB hosts thrive despite “crackdown” in Vancouver
By Evan Sumner Some hosts have as many as 35 different listings on AirBNB. This is despite claims of a crackdown on such commercial operators by the City of Vancouver and AirBNB. According to an analysis of AirBNB data carried
O’Leary: The so-called Canadian Trump
By Evan Sumner A growing number of Canadians are considering joining the Conservative Party of Canada, but not for the usual reasons. They are doing so solely for the opportunity to vote against current leadership front-runners like Kevin O’Leary. In
TFW program supporters endorse Kenney
By Amy Chen Jason Kenney is the “greatest friend of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program” ever, according to a group of Temporary Foreign Worker Program supporters who endorsed the former federal employment minister for the leadership of the Alberta PC