Growth 500: The Complete Ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies
These are the 500 fastest-growing companies in Canada, measured by their revenue growth over the last five years....
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Why Canada’s skills mismatch is cause for concern
My recent C.D. Howe study, Bad Fits: The Causes, Extent and Costs of Job Skills Mismatch in Canada, shows that about 13 per cent of full-time workers in Canada are either...
Why Aren’t More Women Working? They’re Caring for Parents
About 15 percent of women and 13 percent of men 25 to 54 years old spend time caring for an older relative, according to the Labor Department. Among those 55 to...
Canadian economy’s job gains driven by part-time work, youth employment
Canada's economy posted a job surge last month of 81,100 net new positions, the bulk of which were part time, in the services sector and picked up by young people....
Why Remote Work Can Help Bridge the Hiring Gap, Especially for Rural Professionals
Remote work can narrow the rural-urban employment gap by providing high-quality, reliable work for people who don’t live close to economic hubs. It's a win for rural communities, the people...
How to use labour market information to inform clients’ career decisions
Labour market information (LMI) is any information related to employment and the workforce. Whether it’s demographic statistics, industry trends, wage data or any of the wealth of employment information that...
Help Wanted: Modernizing Ontario’s employment and training system
A growing chorus of businesses across Ontario report that difficulty finding, recruiting and retaining talent with the right skills is a significant barrier to their growth. At the same time,...
Canada Performing Well On Recruiting Foreign Workers, OECD Study Suggests
An international review of Canada’s economic immigration system suggests the country is doing well when it comes to how it selects and welcomes foreign workers. But the report from the Organization...
Canadian wage growth hits fastest pace since 2009, but economy sheds jobs
Canada lost 24,200 jobs last month and its unemployment rate moved up to 5.7 per cent to give the economy its weakest three-month stretch of job creation since early 2018....
The Best Jobs in Canada in 2019
Using salary and growth in the number of job opportunities as the main research variables, our data team identified the best jobs in Canada in 2019. We define “best jobs”...