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Venture for Canada offering training program for solopreneurs
Venture for Canada offering training program for solopreneurs
Entrepreneurs have long been considered high achievers who have built businesses from nothing, but today, with the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), there is a new class of solo business person: solopreneurs.
Canadian cities top of ranking in tech talent markets
Eight Canadian cities rank among the top-50 North American technology employment markets, including six in the top 15, in CBRE’s Scoring Tech Talent report. Toronto held on to third spot followed by Vancouver at nine and Waterloo at 10
Sectors hit the hardest by the new U.S. tariffs?
As many as 87,000 Canadian jobs are at risk because of the U.S.'s new 50 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods, according to an analysis flagging electronics, plastics, wood products and machinery as the hardest-hit sectors.
Economy just had its best quarter in 3 years: StatCan
Statistics Canada reported on Friday that real GDP expanded at an annualized rate of 3.3 per cent in Q2, with monthly GDP also rising 0.3 per cent in June offering human resources (HR) leaders a clearer foundation for workforce planning.
Public sector HR leader who asked to be allowed to fail
When Anita Bhandari, Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) at the City of Burnaby, B.C., walked into her first meeting with the city's senior leadership team, she made a promise that few candidates would dare to put on the table.
Key to settlement negotiations lies in one simple sentence
I’ve seldom seen an employer settle a wrongful dismissal claim because of a brilliant legal argument. That’s not because the law doesn’t matter. It does. The legal merits establish the range within which a settlement is likely to occur.
TMU and what not to do with independent investigations
Every employer that commissions an independent investigation should study how Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) is responding to Justice Mary Lou Benotto’s report. Not as a model, but as a warning of what never to do.
Still struggling with pronouns? Some of it is grammar.
Let’s start with grammar, the easier half to tackle. English has always had a pronoun problem, long before anyone put them into an email signature. When speaking generally, can he refer to everyone, not just men?
Jewish public servants face high levels of discrimination
The federal public service is facing calls to combat antisemitism after Jewish civil servants reported experiencing disproportionately high levels of discrimination in the workplace. In 2024, the annual federal employee survey tracked responses based on religion for the first time.
A hinge moment for unions in Canada’s new industrial era
The federal government is advancing a new generation of workforce development policies linked directly to Canada’s emerging industrial strategy. Unions are once again being invited to participate in a new workforce development structure, this time called the “Workforce Alliances.”
BYD adds ‘Coming Soon’ to Canadian website, posts 11 jobs
Chinese car company BYD has added ‘Coming Soon’ to its Canadian website, alongside job postings for 11 management roles. On BYD’s website, Canada appears in the ‘American Region’ alongside Mexico, Brazil, and other Caribbean and Latin American markets.
Workers in China worry over growing impact of AI on jobs
Computer programmer Fei Zhaojun’s boss asked him if artificial intelligence could soon replace humans in coding jobs. Two weeks later, he was laid off from his job in Beijing, together with about 160 of his colleagues.
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