The pandemic necessity of doing your job away from the workplace is ending as restrictions and mandates ease and employers refocus on getting people back to in-person work. While employers can wind down temporary measures, they should also consider how the work environment has changed since COVID-19 took hold early in 2020, that flexible arrangements have proved to be possible, […]
Miss something this week? Don’t panic. CBC’s Marketplace has rounded up the consumer and health news you need. Want this in your inbox? Get the Marketplace newsletter every friday. After Marketplace investigated these movers, the police investigated. Now they’ve been arrested Following an undercover Marketplace investigation into a group of national moving companies accused of deceptive pricing, Toronto police have […]
Nicola Moore says it was the pandemic that triggered her interest in growing food. “My parents have always had a garden my whole life,” she said. “I never put two and two together until I had a family of my own. And then when we went through the pandemic, I think it was 2020, I got scared and I wasn’t […]
The global shortage of computer chips and other parts has forced General Motors to build 95,000 vehicles without certain components during the second quarter. The Detroit automaker said in a regulatory filing Friday that most of the incomplete vehicles were built in June, and it expects most of them to be finished and sold to dealers before the end of […]
US consumer spending rose less than expected in May as motor vehicles remained scarce, while higher prices forced cutbacks on purchases of other goods, another sign that the rebound in economic growth early in the second quarter was losing steam. Though the report from the Commerce Department on Thursday suggested inflation had probably peaked, price pressures remained strong enough to […]
Statistics Canada says real gross domestic product grew 0.3 per cent in April. The agency says the growth was led by the mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction sector and client-facing industries. However, its early estimate for May indicates the economy contracted by 0.2 per cent for the month. The official reading for May is expected on July 29. […]
With seven years of experience as a barista, Sarah Broad knows how to make all kinds of coffee. Now the Starbucks worker also knows what it feels like to be a union member and the face of a growing campaign by the United Steel Workers (USW) to unionize Starbucks stores in Canada. “I never realized how passionate I would feel […]
Air Canada will cut dozens of daily flights this summer as the airline grapples with a series of challenges amid soaring demand for travel. “Regrettably, things are not business as usual in our industry globally, and this is affecting our operations and our ability to serve you with our normal standards of care,” Michael Rousseau, the airline’s president and CEO, […]
The United States is facing an “uncomfortably high” risk of falling into a recession, says Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of Canada, but Alberta could be insulated from the worst impacts if that happens. Carney made the remarks during the Alberta Relaunch event held at the BMO Center on Tuesday, a conference billed as being focused on shaping […]
Canada could face a summer of strikes and other labor disruptions as workers demand cost-of-living increases and better conditions than those seen throughout the past two years of the pandemic, say union officials and other observers. Hundreds of thousands of health and education workers are among those whose unions and employers will be at the bargaining table over the coming […]
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