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Income gap hit record high in Q1: Statistics Canada
Advisor's Edge
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July 16, 2025
Canada’s income gap has reached a record high and the wealth gap widened in the first quarter of this year, according to data Statistics Canada released Wednesday. The difference in the share of disposable income between households in the top 40%...
CHL Coaches Set to Guide Canada in 2025 Hlinka Gretzky Cup
BVM Sports
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July 16, 2025
Hockey Canada has selected 13 coaches from the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) to lead the national squads at the 2025 Hlinka Gretzky Cup and the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge. Prominent among them is Mathieu Turcotte, appointed as head coach of...
City councillors in Nanaimo, B.C., reject plan for fence to protect municipal staff
CKPG News
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July 17, 2025
By Canadian Press Jul 16, 2025 | 5:38 PM VICTORIA — Nanaimo’s council has decided not to proceed with a plan to build a fence to protect city hall staff from disorder associated with an overdose prevention site next door. City staff had proposed a...
Canadians' job security gets shakier as trade war harms growth
Financial Post
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The Bloomberg Nanos Canadian Confidence Index, which measures Canadians’ views on their personal finances, job security, the economy and the real estate market, is holding steady overall. It registered 52.1 for the week ending July 4, the same as...
Recent Updates to Ontario’s Employment Standards Act, 2000
JD Supra - California
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July 16, 2025
The New Long-Term Illness Leave As of June 19, 2025, the Ontario’s Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA) was amended to include a new protected leave: Long-Term Illness Leave. This new Long-Term Illness Leave creates essentially an indefinite leave...
Carney announces new measures to protect and strengthen Canada’s steel industry
Indo Canadian Voice
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July 16, 2025
PRIME Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday announced a suite of targeted measures to stand behind Canada’s steel industry, protect Canadian careers, and invest in Canada’s homegrown industrial capacity to build Canada strong. Carney said: ““Our steel...
“This is the best thing we’ve ever done, the coolest adventure we’ve ever been on”– Chuck Comeau of Simple Plan talks The Kids In The Crowd
The AU Review
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July 23, 2025
With over two decades of music under their belt, a catalogue stacked with pop-punk anthems and a fiercely loyal global fanbase, Simple Plan have more than earned their place in the scene’s history books. Now, the Canadian quartet are reflecting on...
Immigrant Pay Gap Linked to Job Access
Bioengineer.org
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July 16, 2025
Immigrant–Native Pay Disparities Unveiled by Multinational Administrative Data Analysis A groundbreaking multinational study leveraging linked employer–employee administrative records has illuminated persistent pay gaps between immigrants and...
Unionized Canada Post workers to vote on deal starting July 21
Moose Jaw Today
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July 16, 2025
OTTAWA — Unionized Canada Post workers will get a chance to vote directly on the employers' offer for a new collective agreement starting on Monday. The Canadian Industrial Relations Board will run the vote between July 21 to August 1. OTTAWA —...
Trump announces ‘massive’ Japan trade deal
African Insider
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July 23, 2025
Tokyo – Donald Trump announced Tuesday a “massive” trade deal with Japan, marking a key breakthrough for major US trade partners as they scramble to strike agreements before the end of the month. In an attempt to slash his country’s colossal trade...
Import tariffs protect Canadian steel but workers still need wage supports
Rabble.ca
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July 16, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced measures to support Canada’s steel industry on Wednesday. The main feature of these measures are the expanded tariff rate quotas which will be imposed on steel coming in from other countries. Starting on August...
How Canada is responding to the U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs
Brandon Sun
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July 16, 2025
OTTAWA – U.S. President Donald Trump introduced 25 per cent tariffs on all imports of steel and aluminum on March 12, and doubled the levies to 50 per cent in early June. The Canadian government has responded with a number of measures. Initial...
Rudyard Griffiths and Sean Speer: Canada-U.S. free trade is dead
The Hub
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July 16, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent comments that an eventual Canada-U.S. trade deal will likely involve some ongoing U.S. tariffs are more than an exercise in issues management. They were an admission: the era of continental free trade as we’ve...
ESports in Canadian Universities: A new path for scholarships and careers
All Nigeria Soccer
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July 16, 2025
Late-night skating and house LAN parties are no longer the limit of the world of esports. In Canada, universities are turning the digital hobby into real opportunities, from scholarships and specialized programs to full-time jobs in the industry....
Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs
Nature
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Data and measures Linked employer–employee administrative records and meta-analytic data We used recent linked employer–employee administrative records (administrative records that link individual employees directly to their employers and...
Telus narrows field to three Canadian funds in $1.2-billion bidding war for cell towers
The Globe and Mail
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July 16, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:Telus aims to complete the sale of a 49-per-cent stake in its 3,000-tower network by the end of the year.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press Telus Corp. T-T has narrowed the list of buyers for a stake in its cellphone-tower...
Supports announced by federal government to support Canadian steel sector
Manufacturing Automation
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July 16, 2025
July 16, 2025, Canada — Canada’s federal government is implementing several measures to support the country’s steel sector. A key initiative announced was a strengthening of the tariff rate quotas (TRQs), which will allow a certain amount of steel...
Government of Canada proposes new tariff rate for steel
Rock to Road
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July 16, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney promises to strengthen the Canadian steel industry and ‘crack-down,’ on foreign steel entering the Canadian market today. The announcement was made in a steel plant located in Hamilton, Ont. Steel products from non-free...
Alex Darling Named Canada White Video Coach for 2025 U17 World Challenge
BVM Sports
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July 16, 2025
Hockey Canada announced today that Peterborough Petes Video Coach and Assistant to the GM Alex Darling has officially been named as the Video Coach for Canada White for the upcoming 2025 U17 World Challenge in Truro, NS. “It’s truly an honour to...
How Canada’s oil sands transformed into one of North America’s lowest-cost energy producers
Global News
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July 16, 2025
Giant shovels, driverless trucks and a dog-like robot have all helped Canada’s oil sands companies including Imperial Oil and Suncor become some of North America’s lowest-cost oil producers, driving down overheads even as the worst inflation in a...