Canada’s Student Work Placement Program a youth employment lifeline
The program, which helps support the Carney government’s ‘one Canadian economy’ vision, is at risk without permanent long-term funding.
Easter Seals, CFIB lobbying feds to end Canada Post’s strike
The strike by Canada Post workers has put a halt on mail and parcel deliveries nationwide since Sept. 25, but the union representing postal workers announced it would switch to rotating strikes on Oct. 11. The union will meet with the minister again this week.
‘Get back into shop floors’ and contrast Carney’s ‘lurch to the right,’ say NDP leadership hopefuls of party’s path forward
With four people vetted for the NDP leadership race, the candidates are keying in party unity, labour ties, and cost-of-living solutions.
Building more homes is a shared vision. Now we need the infrastructure to make it real
Everyday infrastructure like roads, bridges, pipes, public transit, stormwater management is critical to turning housing aspirations into reality.
The price tag on housing-enabling infrastructure is prolonging our housing crisis
The cost of infrastructure expansion is typically covered through development charges paid by developers when they build new housing, which exacerbates Canada’s significant affordability crisis.
Do Canadians need new houses, or new homes?
We should embrace a broader public vision that supports families in accessing affordable homes integrated into local community infrastructure and services.
Overcoming infrastructure challenges requires better data sharing, say experts
Canada is facing an infrastructure deficit for new housing, and a funding deficit to manage the core assets already in place, says Canadian Infrastructure Council chair Jennifer Angel.
Labour stability is the missing link in Canada’s economic reboot
Without reform, Carney’s nation-building agenda risks being derailed by labour strife.
Lightbound says Canada Post privatization ‘not on the table’ as feds work to salvage ‘insolvent’ Crown corp
Government Transformation and Public Works Minister Joël Lightbound defended Canada Post as the ‘fabric of our nation’ though the Crown corporation is projected to lose $1.5-billion this year.
Conservatives’ push to scrap foreign worker program meets public anxieties, but risks scapegoating migrants, say observers
‘The danger [and] challenge is for the Conservatives to have their message portrayed, or come across, as being unwelcoming to new Canadians and diverse Canadians who inhabit large parts of our major cities, moved there, were making a difference there,’ says Conservative pundit Tim Powers.
