Feds Incent Companies to Hire STEM Grads
Along with three-ring binders and mechanical pencils, some students picked up 10,000 work placements as part of this year’s annual back-to-school routine. The Canadian government’s promise last week to pay companies $73 million to create [...]
The Radical Concept of Taking a Holiday
Summer’s last days are dropping off the calendar like it was a cliff face, and the return of the short, brisk, collar-upped workday looms large. In other words, members of the Canadian workforce who have [...]
Can I Get Fired for Political Rallying?
In light of the social-media-assisted identification of participants in this past weekend’s white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., and the subsequent firing of some of these mean-spirited bozos, let’s have a noodle about employee rights [...]
Video Game Fallout: A Mass Effect on Young Male Labour Supply
Turns out the principle reason this generation’s young men aren’t thriving to the extent they might be professionally has been sitting in their rec rooms all along. A couple of years ago, a quartet of [...]
The Canadian Workforce: Hewers No More On July 1, 1867, Canada’s four founding provinces officially became a Dominion. Today, 150 years hence, we are a bigger, more prosperous, politer nation. We have world-class cities and hipsters [...]
The Minimum Wage Effect
On May 30, 2017, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne announced that the minimum wage in her province would increase to $14 as of January 1, 2018, and, a year later, to $15. And nothing’s been the [...]
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