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New language rules for temporary foreign workers include loophole
OTTAWA — It appears the federal government has included a language loophole for companies seeking to hire temporary foreign workers. After a B.C. mining company came under intense fire for listing...
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Universities, tourism sector worry as foreign visa officers walk off job
OTTAWA — Canadian universities and tourism operators are bracing for disaster as foreign service workers walked off the job Monday at 15 of the busiest international visa offices as part of an...
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NDP Leader Tom Mulcair draws link between Lac-Megantic disaster and...
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair suggests the rail disaster that killed 47 people in the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic last month may have resulted from years of industry deregulation. In a speech before members...
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Canada welcomes first skilled trades immigrants
Little more than seven months after it launched, Canada’s new skilled trades immigration stream has welcomed its first permanent residents to Canada. Immigration Minister Chris Alexander and Employment...
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Harper government gets slap on wrist for ad touting job grant that doesn’t exist
OTTAWA — A federal government television commercial touting a not yet existent Canada Job Grant was misleading and a breach of the Canadian Code of Advertising Standards, Canada’s advertising watchdog...
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Bronze statue of Jack Layton unveiled in Toronto
Beloved late NDP leader Jack Layton is immortalized in bronze. The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) unveiled “a beautiful bronze sculpture” of the mustachioed politician on Toronto’s waterfront on...
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Deadline looms as thousands of ‘forgotten’ would-be immigrants await decision
OTTAWA — The federal government remains confident that the majority of so-called “forgotten” Buffalo immigration applications will be completed by the end of the season as promised even though new...
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Foreign service strike fails to hamper student visa process
OTTAWA — The federal government has issued more international student visas in the last three months than it did during the same period last year, raising questions about whether the ongoing foreign...
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Jerry Dias chosen as first president of Unifor superunion
TORONTO — Jerry Dias, a veteran of the Canadian Auto Workers, is the first president of the new Unifor union. Dias, assistant to the CAW national president, was chosen Saturday at the founding...
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NDP MP Pat Martin says union donation scrutiny is tough enough
OTTAWA — Under fire for accepting donations from trade unions to help pay off a massive debt incurred in a defamation lawsuit related to the robocalls affair, New Democrat MP Pat Martin says he was...
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Cancelled fast-track program for foreign workers could soon return
OTTAWA — Employment Minister Jason Kenney says the government could soon resurrect a fast-track scheme that allows companies to bring temporary foreign workers to Canada more quickly. The program was...
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Report calls for cap on temporary foreign workers
OTTAWA — A new report is calling for a cap on the number of temporary foreign workers admitted to Canada on an annual basis, pending wholesale changes to the beleaguered program that currently risks...
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Federal government launches business incubator immigration visa
OTTAWA — The federal government is expanding its new start-up visa program for immigrant entrepreneurs even though it has yet to issue a single visa since the program launched six months ago....
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Jason Kenney urges provinces, employers to step up and improve apprenticeship...
OTTAWA — Employment Minister Jason Kenney is picking on the provinces and the private sector for failing to nurture the growing demand for skilled tradespeople across Canada and for being overly...
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Federal government pulls pathway to immigration out from under foreign...
OTTAWA — A decision to bar foreign retail and restaurant supervisors from applying to the much-vaunted “Canadian Experience Class” immigration stream is raising questions about whether the federal...
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Processing errors allow hundreds of doctors to gain immigrant status
OTTAWA — A decision to turn a blind eye to processing errors that allowed more than 500 foreign-trained medical doctors to immigrate to Canada even though they didn’t necessarily meet the criteria is...
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NDP wants emergency meeting of MPs to review Canada Post cuts
OTTAWA – The NDP has called for an emergency House of Commons committee meeting to review Canada Post’s decision to eliminate door-to-door delivery, slash up to 8,000 jobs and jack up the price of...
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How many immigrants is too many?
OTTAWA — Despite all the so-called “transformational change” that has befallen Canada’s immigration system, a non-partisan think tank argues the government has missed the mark on one critical element:...
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Misleading job grant ads fell on deaf ears anyway: survey
OTTAWA — A $2.5-million government ad campaign to promote the not-yet-existent Canada Job Grant appears to have resonated with few outside the office of the country’s advertising watchdog. Eighty-five...
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Labour
The organized labour movement in Canada has been hit hard, but it still wields a pretty fantastic hammer of its own.
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MP Christmas cards — here they are
Tis the season when media get lots of Christmas cards from politicians — well, some of the members of Parliament anyway. Everyone has their own style, and that can be seen by this year’s selection....
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NDP LEADERSHIP: Peggy Nash gets a big union boost as labour support becomes...
The president of the one of the country’s most powerful unions is officially throwing his support behind MP Peggy Nash in her race for the party’s leadership. And Canadian Auto Workers union president...
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NDP LEADERSHIP: Mulcair unveils labour policy amid criticism he may be more...
Joined by the president of what’s been dubbed the “fastest-growing union in North America,” NDP leadership front-runner Thomas Mulcair on Friday unveiled his labour policy amid growing criticism he may...
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Teachers in B.C. to strike, Ontario talks break down
Students in two provinces may be facing cancelled classes over unresolved teacher contracts. B.C. teachers are starting a three-day strike, while Ontario’s largest elementary teachers union walked out...
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Should servers be legally entitled to their tips?
Have you ever worked in the food service industry before? Between the long hours, low base pay, and constant running around, it certainly doesn’t make for the easiest job around. You might think that...
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Migrant workers call for reforms six months after deadly van crash
A group of migrant workers planted a rose bush Sunday on the patch of land in southwestern Ontario where nine Peruvian migrant workers had died in a van crash six months ago. Sunday’s migrant workers,...
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Toronto work stoppage – the story behind the story
Toronto mayor Rob Ford overcame a big challenge with a tentative deal with the city’s outside workers. Photograph by: Aaron Lynett, National Post The city of Toronto and the union representing 6,000...
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Some Canadian businesses rely heavily on (permanent) temporary foreign workers
By Peter O’Neil and Tara Carman News that a consortium of mostly Chinese companies will seek permission to use exclusively Chinese labour for underground work in four proposed B.C. coal mines has blown...
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Israel election: Benjamin Netanyahu is ahead, but his support is faltering as...
JERUSALEM — Having led every poll taken from the beginning to the end of a national election campaign that has lasted for months, Benjamin Netanyahu appears poised to be re-elected as Israel’s prime...
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Men experiencing labour pains
Two TV hosts hook up to electronic stimulators to experience labour pain and a cat gets friendly with a hedgehog. Feb 1
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Vancouver International Airport border guard morale at all-time low: survey
OTTAWA — Border guards at Canada’s second-busiest airport are miserable, according to a recent employee survey obtained by Postmedia News that suggests managers don’t communicate with staff, “nepotism...
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Opposition criticism of foreign workers program hypocritical: Tories
OTTAWA — In an apparent attempt to show the hypocrisy of the opposition, the Conservatives have released a string of letters from New Democrats and Liberals — the latest from newly minted Liberal...
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RCMP fete 9-1-1 dispatchers before dumping them from the force
OTTAWA — As the RCMP recognizes its 850 9-1-1 dispatchers as part of National Public Safety Telecommunications Week, some front line operators can’t help but point out the irony as Parliament debates...
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Federal government will close wage gap for temporary foreign workers
OTTAWA — Changes to the ailing temporary foreign worker program unveiled Monday are little more than an admission of error and fall short of the massive overhaul the Conservative government promised,...
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Temporary foreign worker reforms a political solution that will hurt the...
OTTAWA — A government decision to reverse changes to the temporary foreign worker program aimed at helping businesses meet pressing labour market needs was purely political and completely impractical,...
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B.C. mining company justified in bringing in Chinese workers, Federal Court...
OTTAWA — The government was justified in issuing a positive labour market opinion that allowed a British Columbia mining company to hire 201 temporary foreign workers from China, the Federal Court...
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Silicon Valley billboard luring entrepreneurs cost Canada $16K
OTTAWA — A massive billboard outside the San Francisco airport luring Silicon Valley’s best and brightest to Canada cost the federal government $16,000 US, Postmedia News has learned. Meant to coincide...
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