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11/03/2026

Bank of Canada rate hike locks in flat real wages for most Canadians in 2027

On 28 October 2026, the Bank of Canada raised its overnight rate target by 25 basis points to 2.5% - its first increase since July 2023 after seven consecutive decisions to hold at 2.25%. If your annual pay review is a few months away, the number ...

10/30/2026

9 min

Public Holidays in Canada 2027: Official Dates and Long Weekends

Christmas Day 2027 lands on a Saturday and Boxing Day on a Sunday. For any Monday-to-Friday worker in Canada, what you actually get back for that lost weekend depends entirely on which legal framework governs your employment, and the answers ...

10/06/2026

6 min

Ontario's $19/day child care rate: ESDC funds 2031, fees only to 2027

Ontario families paying for regulated child care got concrete news on 29 September 2026, but the announcement came with two different expiry dates worth reading carefully. The federal government, through Employment and Social Development Canada ...

10/05/2026

5 min

Gen Z job-hopping pays off with higher wages, Canadian surveys show

ADP payroll data covering 1.6 million Canadian workers shows that employees who changed employers grew their total compensation, including overtime and bonuses, by 9.6% year-over-year, compared with 4.4% for those who stayed. WTW's 2027 ...

08/20/2026

6 min

AI judgment beats tech skills for Canadian hiring managers

You spent the weekend refining prompts, practised generating polished images, and added AI-powered brainstorming to your CV . Then the recruiter asked how you verified the output, and the interview quietly ended . Adobe research focused on the ...

08/20/2026

7 min

Tech training is pushing burnt-out older workers to retire

Research from Memorial University of Newfoundland puts a quantified challenge in front of Canada's HR leadership: the digital upskilling programmes most commonly deployed as retention tools for older workers may, under the wrong conditions, ...

08/18/2026

7 min

Canada opens feedback on workplace psychological safety rules

British Columbia is moving to make psychological safety an enforceable employer duty, not simply a culture aspiration. WorkSafeBC is consulting on a proposed new Part 4.1 of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation that would require B.C. ...

08/18/2026

5 min

Statistics Canada July LFS data reveals equity gap CPHR leaders must act on

Statistics Canada's July Labour Force Survey recorded a net gain of 75,000 jobs and a drop in the unemployment rate to 6.4 per cent, its lowest reading in two years. The headline figure will arrive on the desks of HR directors and CHROs just as ...

08/14/2026

7 min

Canadian youth unemployment falls as job market stabilises

Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey data for July showed something the past year of youth labour market deterioration had made easy to dismiss: actual improvement. The unemployment rate for Canadians aged 15 to 24 fell to 12.6%, down from ...

08/14/2026

6 min

30% of Canadian workers say mental health is hurting productivity

You can be at your desk, camera on, inbox open, and still lose two hours of real work to a knot in your stomach about rent, a parent's care bill, or a therapy appointment you keep postponing. A Telus Health survey of 3,000 Canadian workers put a ...

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