Quebec says it will cut the equivalent of 5,000 civil service positions by March 2027
Globalnews Digital / globalnews - Treasury Board President France-Élaine Duranceau also says that by the end of January government employees will work in the office three days a week instead of two.
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Ford says he knew layoffs were coming before loaning Algoma Steel $100M
Colin D’Mello / globalnews - The steel giant announced Monday it would lay off roughly 1,000 workers as a Sault Ste. Marie plant closure is being made to adapt to a “fundamentally altered” landscape.
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Air Transat pilots vote in favour of strike action
Patricia D'Cunha / citynews - Pilots with Air Transat pilots voted in favour of going on strike. In a post on X, Air Transat ALPA Pilots said workers voted 99 per cent in favour of strike action. “Air Transat pilots have voted overwhelmingly in favor of going on strike if management f…
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GTA home sales down nearly 16% in November as prices, new listings fall
Sammy Hudes / theglobeandmail - Toronto Regional Real Estate Board says buyers were held back by a lack of confidence in their long-term employment outlook
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Algoma Steel to lay off 1,000 workers over ‘unprecedented tariffs’
Ari Rabinovitch / globalnews - Algoma Steel said Monday that it plans to lay off about 1,000 workers due to impacts from tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff policies.
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Benjamin Bergen named new head of CVCA after months-long search
Catherine McIntyre / thelogic - The post Benjamin Bergen named new head of CVCA after months-long search appeared first on The Logic.
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Ontario exempting training centres from municipal and planning laws
Globalnews Digital / globalnews - Ontario may let Skills Development Fund training centres bypass municipal planning rules, sparking concerns over safety, oversight, and transparency.
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Canada's economy grows 2.6%, blowing past expectations
Jordan Gowling / financialpost - Fresh data for the third quarter shows nation has dodged a recession
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JD Vance says Canada’s immigration ‘insanity’ caused lower living standards
Sean Boynton / globalnews - Vance shared data purporting to show living standards in Canada falling below the U.S. and Britain in recent years, which he blamed on high immigration.
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Vianode to spent $3.2B on graphite plant for EVs in southwestern Ontario
Globalnews Digital / globalnews - Vianode CEO Burkhard Straube says it will construct the plant in St. Thomas, Ont., and will initially create 300 jobs and ramp up to 1,000 jobs once the plant is operating fully.
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Doug Ford government to introduce ‘Buy Ontario’ legislation
Globalnews Digital / globalnews - The province said the Buy Ontario Act would apply to all public-sector organizations, including municipalities, ministries, agencies, contractors and subcontractors.
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Inflation in Canada cools slightly to 2.2% in October, StatCan says
Ari Rabinovitch / globalnews - Year-over-year inflation for consumer goods rose by 2.2 per cent in October, a slight dip compared with the growth seen last month, according to Statistics Canada.
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Kinew, Carney announce another step forward for Port of Churchill project
Gabrielle Piché / winnipegfreepress - New cash for the Port of Churchill, and a commitment to further the project, came from the province Sunday as Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Premier Wab Kinew. They […]
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NDP convention delegates call on their own government to build ferries in B.C.
Globalnews Digital / globalnews - BC NDP delegates want the province to build ferries locally to protect good-paying jobs, after BC Ferries chose a shipyard in China to construct four new vessels.
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Unifor says WestJet is outsourcing hundreds of customer service jobs to El Salvador
Vanmala Subramaniam / theglobeandmail - The union claims 400 call centre jobs have been outsourced as part of an offshoring plan between WestJet and Telus Digital
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Montreal transit strike averted after tentative deal reached with drivers’ union
Alessia Simona Maratta / globalnews - The strike was scheduled to begin early Saturday and last until Monday, but the Société de transport de Montréal says it reached a deal late Friday.
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PBO slams Carney’s creative accounting as deficit looms
Western Standard News Services / westernstandard - The Parliamentary Budget Officer has delivered a damning critique of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Budget 2025, calling out Ottawa’s “overly expansive” definition of capital spending and warning that the government’s promise to balance the operating budget…
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- Political debates and partisan reactions (3)
- Public service cuts and social impact (3)
- Unique budget allocation quirks (2)
Fiscal misreporting and accounting controversies
Political debates and partisan reactions
Public service cuts and social impact
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Mark Carney to unveil latest round of ‘nation-building projects’
Bryan Passifiume / torontosun - Announcement set to take place Thursday at 2:15 p.m. ET
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Critiques and political pushback on spending
Nation-building project announcements
Pipeline and energy negotiations in focus
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Carney to announce next major projects list Thursday
Nick Murray / nationalobserver - Prime Minister Mark Carney says the next tranche of projects the government is referring to the Major Projects Office for review will be announced Thursday.
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Canada posts surprise job gains in October, bolstering case for BoC rate pause next month
Matt Lundy / theglobeandmail - Country’s unemployment rate fell slightly to 6.9% as the economy added 67,000 positions; however, the entirety of the gain was in part-time work
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