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The Canadian labour market felt a chill in February with employment “virtually unchanged” from the month before, Statistics Canada said Friday. The Canadian economy added just 1,100 jobs last month, the agency said, well below the 76,000 jobs added in January. Economists polled by Reuters ahead of Friday had expected an increase of 20,000 new […]

President Donald Trump has postponed 25% tariffs on many imports from Mexico and some imports from Canada for a month amid widespread fears of the economic fallout from a broader trade war. The White House insists its tariffs are about stopping the smuggling of fentanyl, but the taxes proposed by Trump have caused a gaping wound in the decades-old […]

REGINA – Regina is absolutely covered in snow, so now the residential plow is on to clear it away. On Monday, winter crews began their effort to plow all city residential streets, and it is scheduled to run until Feb. 22. According to the city’s news release, Regina got about 17 cm of snow in […]

The continuing threat of a trade war has Canadian politicians and business leaders looking for ways to shore up our economy in the face of potential disruptions. Interprovincial trade barriers — the complications of moving goods and services around the country between provinces and territories with different rules — are one target. “The rules of […]

Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon is intervening to end the work stoppages at ports in both British Columbia and Montreal.  The minister said Tuesday the negotiations have reached an impasse and he is directing the Canada Industrial Relations Board to order the resumption of all operations at the ports and move the talks to binding arbitration. […]

A labour dispute continues to paralyze cargo shipping at British Columbia ports, and the union for locked-out workers is accusing employers of abruptly ending contract talks early. The International Longshore and Warehouse Local 514 says the BC Maritime Employers Association ended federally mandated talks with a mediator less than an hour after they began late Saturday afternoon. […]

Tracy Robinson, the president and CEO of Canadian National Railway, is making a visit to Regina, and its a homecoming of sorts. Robinson was born in Bethune, and went to Lumsden High School. After attending USask in Saskatoon, Robinson began work with what was then, Canadian Pacific Rail. After working with TC Pipeline, she returned […]

REGINA – The City of Regina is conducting a survey starting in October to gather information on how its residents travel daily.    Data results will help with future infrastructure decisions, like transit upgrades and road improvements.  R.A Malatest & Associates Ltd, a Canadian Research film, will conduct the survey on behalf of the city.  Certain households across […]

The union representing Montreal dockworkers has ended a three-day strike at two terminals as scheduled. The Maritime Employers Association confirmed the work stoppage came to an end at 7 a.m. at the terminals, which handle more than 40 per cent of container traffic at the country’s second-largest port. The two sides have not met all […]

Bargaining between workers and the country’s two largest railways is set to resume Thursday morning after breaking off shortly before midnight — a deadline that left workers locked out by Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City in their first-ever simultaneous work stoppage. Following months of increasingly bitter negotiations, traffic on the freight railways […]