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Canada / A report calls for a cap temporary foreign workers
Author and Carleton University economics professor Christopher Worswick said a cap is needed to “ensure the program does not grow too large.” Continue reading
Canada / ‘Young people have been completely betrayed by Canada says Unifor President Jerry Dias
Young people have been completely betrayed by Canada. In August I think about 60,000 jobs were created, but the problem is of course that 70 per cent are precarious jobs, contract jobs, part time jobs. The worst and the most staggering figure that came out of that is that a majority of those jobs were … Continue reading
Canada / Unemployment rate declined to 6.9% as fewer youths searched for work
Employment was up 1.2% (+212,000) compared with 12 months earlier Continue reading
Canada / Encourage Americans to head north and fill skilled positions says Conference Board
That’s the recommendation of a new that makes some interesting points while coming to what some may consider a controversial conclusion Continue reading
(Update) Canada Job Grant / Ottawa willing to compromise and offering to ease the rules
Minister Jason Kenney said Ottawa is prepared to remove a barrier that forces training dollars to be divided into two categories: money for people on Employment Insurance, and a smaller amount for people who are not Continue reading
BC / A hard line on Canada Job Grant
B.C. Jobs Minister Shirley Bond described Kenney’s go-it-alone warning as “incredibly unfortunate”. Continue reading
Canada / Less than 50 per cent of high school students graduate with senior STEM courses
The report, Spotlight on Science Learning: The High Cost of Dropping Science and Math, estimates that less than 50 per cent of high school students graduate with senior science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) courses, despite approximately 70 per cent of Canada’s top jobs requiring STEM education Continue reading
Grads in Canada / RBC Launches New Internship For Recent College and University Graduates
With almost three-quarters (73 per cent) of recent post-secondary graduates surveyed saying a lack of experience is a barrier to securing their first job, RBC today announced the RBC Career Launch Program™, a multi-year investment in providing recent college and university graduates with career experience to help strengthen their future employability. A one-year internship for … Continue reading
Canada Job Grant / Ottawa willing to compromise
In a renewed effort to show “flexibility” and reach out to the provinces on the Canada Job Grant program, the federal minister responsible, Jason Kenney, has written to the provinces with an olive branch Continue reading
Toronto / Its job market is hot
How does Toronto compare to the rest of the country in overall job growth? Toronto accounted for one in three of all jobs created in Canada between 2010 and 2013 thus far Continue reading
Canada / The job recovery isn’t producing enough to adequately absorb the natural expansion in labour force
U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke often emphasizes that it is not good enough to have a growing economy; what is needed is sufficient growth to absorb the expanding labour force that naturally accompanies a growing population. Canada’s labour market is in better shape than America’s, but Mr. Bernanke’s point applies equally here, especially since … Continue reading
Update – Atlantic Canada and EI / Almost 80% of the unemployed receive benefits compare with 1 in 3 for the rest of Canada
I have to show you something. Before reading the news below, take a look at the figure Continue reading
Canada / Unifor to hold national ‘Good Jobs Summit’
Canada’s newest union, will organize a national, multi-stakeholder summit on good jobs in 2014. Continue reading
Canada / Youth gather to talk unemployment
“Who here has worked two or more jobs at the same time?” asked Roxanne Dubois. Almost every single person raised his or her hand. Continue reading
Canada Job Grant / Doomed unless changed say premiers
Unless the federal Conservatives make substantial changes to the Canada Job Grant, the jobs training fund is doomed to failure, provincial leaders say. Ottawa has to be open to changing the program because a “one-size-fits-all” approach to helping more people find jobs isn’t going to work, said BC Premier Christy Clark and New Brunswick Premier … Continue reading
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