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10/30/2026

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

Silent exits in Canada: a psychosocial and governance risk HR leaders must own

A colleague raises a concern in a team meeting on Tuesday. By Friday, their access badge is deactivated, their desk is cleared, and the rest of the team receives no explanation. The pattern has a name in some HR circles: getting the employee ...

10/06/2026

6 min

62% of Canadian workers report chronic conditions, BCHS survey finds

Canadian plan sponsors are operating with a materially inaccurate picture of their workforce's health. Data presented at Benefits Canada's 2026 Toronto Benefits Summit on 25 September shows that sponsors estimated, on average, 37.6% of their ...

10/05/2026

6 min

Eight in ten Canadian hiring managers screen for AI skills, yet candidates rank it last

Four in every five Canadian hiring managers are looking for AI competence in the candidates they screen, yet most job seekers have not made that connection. A 2026 survey of 508 Canadian hiring decision-makers conducted between May 15 and June 1 ...

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

8 min

ILO warns 67 million young workers jobless as AI disrupts hiring

Sixty-seven million young people aged 15 to 24 are out of work worldwide, and the entry-level clerical and administrative roles that have historically served as career on-ramps are the occupations AI is reshaping fastest. The International Labour ...

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

6 min

Canada invests $3.2M in First Nations youth skills training

A federally funded, community-led Indigenous employment pipeline in Alberta has published retention and wage data that most entry-level hiring programmes in Canada cannot match: 76% of participants still in employment one year after placement, ...

08/14/2026

8 min

Ottawa's $5.4M ECE workforce plan: what HR leaders must know

Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC / Emploi et Développement social Canada) has committed up to $5.4 million CAD through the Sectoral Workforce Solutions Program, running to 31 March 2027, to modernise occupational standards and m...

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