Fast, employer-aligned training is key to Canada’s economic recovery
As tariffs and trade disruption continue, the best way Canada can insulate itself is to ensure businesses can shift and communities can supply the skilled people they need.
Feds need clearer focus on youth as unemployment hits 15-year high, critics say
Prime Minister Mark Carney ‘has silenced the voice of youth at the cabinet table by failing to appoint a minister,’ says NDP critic Leah Gazan, noting Secretary of State for Children and Youth Anna Gainey should be pushing for more.
Let’s not forget Canada Post is a public service
Bottom line is that we must return to thinking of Canada Post as a public service that serves Canadians and not profits, and that the best solution is to have a serious independent investigation into how that can be made to happen. And then do it.
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.
