The federal government is allowing Canadian employers to hire significantly more temporary foreign workers as part of changes to its immigration rules, a move aimed at easing labour shortages that have aggravated businesses during the recovery from the pandemic. The federal employment ministry announced changes to the Temporary Foreign WorkerContinue Reading
The Government of Canada continues to be committed to advancing gender equality and women’s economic empowerment. Today, at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto, the Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and Economic Development, celebrated International Women’s Day by announcing the Women Entrepreneurship Loan Fund, the next phase of the $6-billion Women Entrepreneurship Strategy. The Minister was joined by Julie Dabrusin, MemberContinue Reading
Ontario is moving to deregulate traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture because the current system prevents people who only speak Cantonese or Mandarin from writing licensing exams, Premier Doug Ford said Thursday. Practitioners said they were shocked by the proposal because they had not been calling for it, nor were they consulted. ButContinue Reading
On Sunday, dozens of riot police descended on this illegal camp beside an Ottawa baseball stadium, seizing diesel and gasoline, stunning protesters. “That they came in and they were taking the fuel they were showing force by standing there with their weapons.” This was a targeted strike to choke offContinue Reading
Like driving through a blizzard, pandemic uncertainty is exhausting. Some are now impatiently racing towards any light on the horizon, but no one knows what’s up ahead. As director general from world health organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “It’s premature for any country either to surrender or to declare victory.”Continue Reading
Despite a dip in January home sales year over year, they were still historically high right across the GTA, and that’s keeping in line with industry forecast for the rest of this year. The Toronto regional real estate board says it expects 110,000 homes to be sold through its systemsContinue Reading
Just when it looked like things were moving in the right direction, a second protest started causing issues on highway four in southern Alberta. Protesters actually arrived at the spot on Tuesday in a show of support for the demonstrations in Coutts, but it wasn’t until Wednesday night that theyContinue Reading
There’s frustration along parts of the Canada U.S. border yesterday night over protests supporting the convoy in Ottawa. Trucker demonstrations are causing delays and disruptions near crossings in Emerson, Manitoba, along with Coutts, Alberta. As the reporter described, there’s still a large crowd blocking the highway that leads to theContinue Reading
Thousands of protesters have descended on Parliament Hill and have been rallying against COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates for two days. Organizers and some truckers say there’s no plan to end the demonstrations anytime soon. CBC News reporter have been out in the crowd throughout the day, he described theContinue Reading
Canada’s long-term care homes are still being hit hard in the pandemic. Just over half the people who have died of COVID in Canada were residents of long-term care and retirement homes, which is roughly 16,000 people. There are outbreaks right now at more than 2,000 facilities across the country,Continue Reading
